SOLD OUT! There will be another auction lot from Aida Batlle from her farm Finca Tanzania and we will have it as a “By Hand” select coffee. Next roast date will be Sept. 6th.

Finca Mauritania- El Salvador: Grounds For Health Auction Lot

Our friend Aida Batlle owns and operates some of the world’s best respected and most advanced coffee farms– Finca Mauritania, Finca Los Alpes, Finca Kilimanjaro and Finca Tanzania—- in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador. For the past few years, on these farms, she’s been experimenting with different processing methods: exploring the different flavors made possible by removing the fruit from the coffee seed in ways traditional to different parts of the world. This year, Finca Mauritania produced small lots of coffees using 6 different processes, and the results were quite striking.

So striking, in fact, that Aida blended together two of them (a Kenya-style long-fermentation washed coffee and a natural-processed coffee) To create a super-limited-edition micro lot. The resulting coffee bursts with incredible berry sweetness & floral aromatics; it’s easily one of the best coffees we’ve had all year.

Even more awesome is how this coffee got to us. Aida donated this lot, along with amazing micro lots from each of her other farms, to an auction benefitting Grounds for Health, an organization funding cancer prevention & treatment in coffee-growing communities. Counter Culture bid on and bought this and Aida’s other lots, and now we get the privilege of brewing it!

We’ve only got a pound and a half of this crazy deliciousness to share with you, so get in here and drink it while there’s still some left!

Aida gracing the cover of Barista Magazine: