The best of Costa Rican coffee

with focus on the fantastic specialty coffee from the hills around the lush Tarrazu Valley, grown and processed with love and passion and specialty roasters located in Germany

Costa Rica’s attention to land and water use has always made it a top specialty coffee producer. The micro mills experimenting with honey and natural processing have long led the industry in the creation of distinctive coffees that roasters have cherished.

Alliance for Coffee Excellence

June, 2024

Recent Posts


  • Natural processing

    Processors and methods

    Many of the smaller and medium farmers take their produce to cooperatives or processing plants for processing, but some wish to control the quality of the beans themselves and work with micromills – beneficios. In the context of coffee processing a beneficio is a micro mill often with shared ownership. I am looking forward to…

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