Lamari – PNG
Washed – Dark roast

Flavours : Gala apple, sugar cane and dark chocolate
Terroir: Lamari
Farmer : Lamari River Valley Coffee Gardens
Variety : Arusha, Blue Mountain, Bourbon, Typica
Altitude : 1700-2000m
Process: Washed
Score : 84,5
Harvest : 2020
Roast : Dark
Net weight : 220g
100 % arabica coffee

Minimum 7 days resting period after roasting date.

The introduction of coffee to Papua New Guinea is directly linked to the country’s colonial past. The first official record of coffee in the region is found in an 1890 colonial government report, right in the midst of Forsayth’s trading power. By 1897, Variarata, a plantation outside Port Moresby and a little northwest of Rigo, had planted 20,000 Arabica trees. Four years later, in 1901, shortly after the trees began to bear the cherry, the plantation began exporting to Australia. It was not until the late 1920s that business owners made a major effort to increase production to a commercial level.

Much of this growth is due to smallholder farmers in the highlands who benefit from a combination of ideal climatic conditions, rich soils and the growing attention and knowledge of smallholder farmers. It should be noted that in PNG it has been particularly difficult to organize farmers into cooperatives. This is in part due to the incredible diversity of tribals and languages.

Most farmers in PNG grow coffee on small, interspersed plots of land.

Many smallholders in PNG process their cherries at home. Farmers pulp their cherries, usually with small pulping drums or other methods by hand. Then ferment them for about 36 hours. After washing the cherry to remove any remaining mucilage, growers will dry the parchment. The most common drying methods are drying in the sun on raised beds or tarps or mechanical dryers.