Tasting experience: Candied Lemon, Pastry Crust, Brown Spice
Country: Peru
Continent: South America
Farm/Lot: El Bebedero, Germán Carranza Barboza
Roast: Light/Med (City+)
Process: Washed Anaerobic
Varietal: Bourbon
Notes from Yellow Rooster:
Germán manages his farm “El Bebedero” in the small village of Gracias a Dios with his wife Keyla and their two daughters, in the department of Amazonas in northern Peru. He inherited the land from his father, who arrived a generation ago from another part of Peru with the idea of starting a life in coffee. Germán now pursues coffee full time alongside many of his siblings, cousins and uncles, who collectively work across 14 hectares and share a drying facility among them.
At 1600 meters, El Bebedero sits in a privileged position at the edge of the vast Amazon rainforest, while still benefitting from such high elevation. The microclimate and biodiversity already being an advantage, Germán made the decision years ago to pursue a differentiated product by going the route of specialty coffee.
He planted a wide swath of varieties, including Castillo, Bourbon, Villasarchi, Pacamara, Geisha and more, and then explored further by leaning into diversifying his post-harvest processing. We’ve had the pleasure of tasting Natural, Honey, and Washed coffee, both anaerobic and not, across a myriad of varieties since we started working with Germán in 2019.
Curious and creative by nature, Germán is one of the leading actors in the surging Peruvian coffee scene, and as our longest-tenured producer ally at origin, we’re both proud of and grateful to Germán for the mutual trust we have developed between us.
Tasting experience: Candied Lemon, Pastry Crust, Brown Spice
Country: Peru
Continent: South America
Farm/Lot: El Bebedero, Germán Carranza Barboza
Roast: Light/Med (City+)
Process: Washed Anaerobic
Varietal: Bourbon
Notes from Yellow Rooster:
Germán manages his farm “El Bebedero” in the small village of Gracias a Dios with his wife Keyla and their two daughters, in the department of Amazonas in northern Peru. He inherited the land from his father, who arrived a generation ago from another part of Peru with the idea of starting a life in coffee. Germán now pursues coffee full time alongside many of his siblings, cousins and uncles, who collectively work across 14 hectares and share a drying facility among them.
At 1600 meters, El Bebedero sits in a privileged position at the edge of the vast Amazon rainforest, while still benefitting from such high elevation. The microclimate and biodiversity already being an advantage, Germán made the decision years ago to pursue a differentiated product by going the route of specialty coffee.
He planted a wide swath of varieties, including Castillo, Bourbon, Villasarchi, Pacamara, Geisha and more, and then explored further by leaning into diversifying his post-harvest processing. We’ve had the pleasure of tasting Natural, Honey, and Washed coffee, both anaerobic and not, across a myriad of varieties since we started working with Germán in 2019.
Curious and creative by nature, Germán is one of the leading actors in the surging Peruvian coffee scene, and as our longest-tenured producer ally at origin, we’re both proud of and grateful to Germán for the mutual trust we have developed between us.
