Seasonal Guatemala 250g Beans

Guatemala Antigua is a special type of coffee cultivated in one of the country’s most premier coffee-growing regions with high-quality local Arabica, renowned for producing exceptional coffee beans.

The journey of this specific Guatemala Antigua begins at the carefully selected micro-lots tended to by local farms in the area of Antigua that have been farming for generations. The lots are chosen specifically for their uniqueness and high quality to ensure that the coffee is of excellent standard and taste. The landscape’s high elevations, sunny days, and cool nights provide the ideal conditions for developing this coffee's vibrant and refined flavour. The volcanic land contributes mineral-rich soil, while the presence of unique pumice enhances moisture retention, balancing the lower rainfall typical of the area. The pumice itself is what makes this coffee unique as the landscape creates an environment of superior growing quality that you won’t find anywhere else within these areas.

The coffee first starts its journey from the Micro-lots through to the Santa Bárbara Mill in Alotenango, just 15 kilometres from the heart of the central Antigua City. This centralised location ensures that freshly harvested coffee cherries are collected daily to maintain quality and retain their freshness. After harvesting, the coffee undergoes a meticulous wet-processing method. It is first sun-dried on patios to naturally draw out moisture before being finished in mechanical dryers for precision and consistency.

Once dried to perfection, the beans are transported to the Ixchel Mill near Guatemala’s capital, where they rest in parchment, patiently awaiting export. This careful process preserves the coffee’s exceptional characteristics, ensuring every cup delivers a taste of Antigua’s heritage and dedication to quality. As its unique landscape offers growing conditions that ensure a cup with an excellent taste.

This Antigua coffee offers a beautifully complex profile that unfolds with every sip. Delicate hints of white chocolate and floral aromatics provide a soft, elegant introduction. Rich notes of toffee bring warmth and sweetness, while the deep, juicy flavour of blackberry adds a bold, fruity depth.

A balanced cup with layers that reveal themselves with every taste.

Why Our Coffee is The Best?

Sourcing the Pick of the Crop

Established relationships with producers and the coffee farming community means we can consistently source the best Arabica and Robusta beans from over 40 origins across the Coffee Growing Belt. At Kingdom Coffee we always demand the pick of the crop. We buy Grade 1 or “Strictly High Grown” – SHG coffee beans. By selecting only coffee beans from the highest elevations we can be sure that the bean has matured more slowly, grown to a larger size and with more density to create a consistently great taste profile.

There’s no denying that coffee grown at higher elevations produces the best flavour profiles, which is then sorted and graded by the farmers with greater care and attention and therefore command a higher premium price which we are very happy to pay! We believe passionately that farmers should be rewarded fairly for their hard work and the quality of their crop.

 

 

Investing in the Purest and Cleanest Roast

ROASTING BETTER: We are unique in that we roast on a clean bed of air in small batches as opposed to conventional drum roasting - only 1% of coffee is roasted this way. Air roasting elevates the natural sweetness to give a smooth and pure taste. Unlike traditional roasting, the chaff, the skin of the bean, that surrounds the raw bean is removed during the air process whilst in normal roasting this is burnt onto the bean. This makes the resultant air roasted beans more pure as the beans will taste less burnt and acidic.

CONSISTENCY: Another benefit to Air Roasting is consistency - typical roasters rely upon roasting “to colour“ which returns a high degree of variance from batch to batch. The Air Roasters rely upon exact metrics such as temperature and time with specific profiles that have been developed by our Q Grader, a certified coffee professional, to suit the particular bean. An exact science rather than guess work.

 

 

Protecting the Environment

We all have to recognise and assess our individual impact upon the environment. Our new Air Roaster uses 30% less energy than a typical roaster and reduces wasted heat by recirculating it in a fully enclosed system. We have a catalytic converter to ensure that harmful gases released are reduced by around 96%. Committing further to minimise our impact on the planet we have moved our packaging to 100% curb-side recyclable. This new packaging still protects that fresh roasted taste.

 

 

OUR BEANS are amongst the freshest on the market, being roasted to stock in the UK as opposed to importing roasted beans on a much longer timescale. Our Neotech roaster is more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and better than conventional drum roasters in that it can roast in specific small batches with unique roasting profiles that are able to compensate product variations and unfold the unique flavour of each individual coffee blend whilst reducing wasted heat by recirculating in the fully enclosed system.

Our range of Ethical coffees support our partnership with Toybox, who we aim to donate £100,000 over a period of ten years, having donated £50,000 in the last 5 years. This enabled Toybox to provide the resources needed for the street outreach team throughout 2020, conducting 240 visits to children in the most high-risk areas in Guatemala City as well as deliver 100 children across the city a warm and nutritious meal each week. Your continued support of Kingdom Coffee means that we can fund vital projects like this so thank you very much!