*We roast every Tuesday. All orders placed before Monday 12:00pm (AEST) will be roasted and fulfilled that Tuesday. All orders placed after that will be roasted the following week.
Country - Guatemala
Region - San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango
Producer/s - Carlos Rivas
Farm - La Unión
Processing - Washed (long wet fermentation)
Varietal/s - Pacamara
Altitude - 1650-1850 MASL
Harvest - Jan-March 2026
Flavour Notes - Red candy, Dried mango & Jammy
La Unión is a 21-hectare farm in Huehuetenango, owned and run by Carlos Rivas. Carlos bought the farm in 2017 after it had been sitting largely untouched for more than a decade, and has spent the years since slowly bringing it back to life.
There are now 22 different coffee varieties growing across La Unión. Carlos has dedicated a big part of the farm to varieties chosen simply because they taste great, and this lot comes entirely from his Pacamara trees.
The importers, Melbourne Coffee Merchants, have been buying coffee from Carlos and La Unión since 2024. It is still a fairly new relationship, but exactly the sort we want to be a part of — good coffee, thoughtful farming and a producer making deliberate choices about what he wants his farm to become.
Espresso Recipe: 1:2.8 ratio
In: 20 grams dry dose
Out: 58 grams beverage weight output
Time: Contact time of 23+ seconds
Filter Recipe: 1:16 ratio
In: 20 grams dry coffee
Out: 320 grams brewing water
Time: 3:00-3:30 minutes
