About This Coffee
Founded in 2014, Inconexus’s Guacharos program – named after a bird species indigenous to Central and South America – helps farmers improve coffee quality while protecting the environment. Their goal is to new, more sustainable ways to produce high quality coffee in environmentally-beneficial ways. Producers work to improve their coffee quality while preserving their surrounding environment and reduce the impact of their farm’s ecological footprint.
Producers working with the Guacharos program see a myriad of benefits, including higher prices for their coffees and healthier, more sustainable farms. Inconexus works with producers to provide agricultural training, access to tools and mentorship to help producers become entrepreneurs who actively promote their coffees while improving their environmental impact.
Harvest & Post-Harvest
Producers selectively handpick ripe, red cherry and process it on their farm. Cherry is visually hand-sorted and laid in thin layers on raised drying beds. Cherry is raked frequently to ensure even drying. It takes approximately 30 days for cherry to dry.
Inconexus Guacharos Program
Inconexus’s Guacharos program, named after a bird species indigenous to Central and South America, supports farmers working to improve their coffee quality while preserving their surrounding environment and reducing the impact of their farms' ecological footprint.
Coffee in Colombia
Colombia has been producing and exporting coffee renowned for their full body, bright acidity and rich aftertaste, since the early 19th century.
Colombia boasts a wide range of climates and geographic conditions that produce their own unique flavors in coffee. This also means that harvest times can vary quite a bit. In fact, between all its different regions, Colombia produces fresh crop nearly all year round.
The increasing focus on the specialty industry is changing the way traders and farmers do business. It is becoming more common for farmers to isolate the highest quality beans in their lots to market separately. These higher-quality lots are often sold under specific brands or stories.
Besides its wide variety of cup profiles, Colombia has quickly expanded its certification options over the past 10 years. The most common certifications available are Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Organic.