Highland Coffee
Roasted Walnut, Rich Dark Chocolate, Maple Syrup, Green Apple
A bold cup from Papua New Guinea where our story began. Coffee grown and picked on rugged slopes of the Highlands. So special we named it after its place of birth. Direct trade. 100% pesticide & fertilizers free.
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Brews Calling
Ratio: 1:2
Dose*: 22g
Yield: 42-44g
Time: 32-34s
*If your basket size differs from our recommendations, please use the ratio to work out your custom recipe & play around with your grind setting to achieve a steady pour time.
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Country
Region
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Small landowners
Papua New Guinea
Eastern Highlands
1450-2000m
Washed
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Highland Coffee is a bold cup with a smooth mouthfeel and soft acidity that has been the backbone of our house blend Magneto since 2011. It grows in rugged mountain ranges with cooler climates, rich volcanic soils and where average rainfall reaches 8,000mm per year - all the ideal conditions for a high quality crop.
Coffee from Papua New Guinea is coffee stripped back to its rawest form - it’s wild, untamed, and as organic as it gets - not because of a label, but because of the brutal terrain in which machinery simply can’t reach the remote areas. In most of the places, coffee grows without using any chemicals or pesticides. What it means is that you won't get a more organic coffee than this!
Cultivated by smallholder families on their garden plots with less than 20 coffee trees, it grows among bananas, taro and sweet potato. For farmers in the villages of Lufa and Okapa, coffee is the only cash crop providing income, and access to healthcare and education. Due to lack of infrastructure, farmers utilize natural farming methods only.
They pick ripe red cherries by hand, pulp them on site with hand-crank machines and leave the parchment to dry in the sun. Then it's bagged, slung over shoulders, and carried up muddy mountain trails to village collection points. The coffee's true potential relies on having access to quality equipment and transport to a mill.
The dried parchment is picked up by trucks and hauled along roads that peak at 7,500 feet all the way to the township of Goroka where it’s processed in the Los Manos mill.
PNG coffee sustains 400,000 families while protecting the land. Naturally organic, it carries the taste of tradition, resilience, and community in every sip. So next time you sip our PNG Highland Coffee, remember—it’s not just a drink. It’s the story of mountains and mud, of farmers hauling sacks on their backs, of trucks crawling along slippery cliff-hanging roads in the clouds, of mills working tirelessly around the clock to prepare beans for export.
