Organic Papua New Guinea Timuza A

Notes: Brown Sugar, Dark Chocolate, Cedar

Acidity: Low
Body: Low
Sweetness: Above Average   

Elevation: 1550 to 1800 meters
Varietals: Arusha, Mundo Novo, Typica
Process: Fully Washed 
Drying: Patio Drying

Chuck's Notes: PNG coffee comes from one of the world's most remote coffee regions, where traditional farming methods are still the norm. The Timuza estate sits in the Western Highlands, where volcanic soil and tropical climate create unique growing conditions. This coffee has a low body with earthy undertones and subtle fruit notes - it's like tasting the untouched wilderness where it grows. The isolation that makes PNG coffee hard to source also protects it from industrial farming practices, resulting in coffee that tastes like it's from another time.

The Timuza Coffee Cooperative represents over 200 smallholder farmers of the Kamano tribal group, located southwest of Kainantu in the hamlets surrounding Namura town. The soils are a mix of black & brownish red loam, with predominately traditional typica grown under casuarina and albizia shade trees. The average farm size is 1.4 hectares per family, with adjacent gardens for the cultivation of food crops such as sweet potato, taro, and cassava. Farmers have received training and assistance in financial management, gender equality, coffee husbandry, and standards for processing through local partners. The harvest takes place from April through September, with the selective harvest of ripe cherry, manually pulping, fermentation in traditional bilum bags, washing, and full sun-drying. In 2016, Timuza placed 1st in the National Cupping Competition.