About This Coffee
Tairora began as a collaborative project with Baroida Estate. The estate offer extensive outreach and technical support to their suppliers in order to secure the best cherry in the region. We provide pre-financing and support to farmers and Baroida's outreach programs. Tairora lots can be sold with full village and supplier traceability.
Cherry is sourced from indigenous owners of surrounding coffee gardens. Each season the team inspects their regular suppliers and buy forward contracts of the best cherry in the regions. This ensures the best quality cherry is sold to them and the farmers can then choose to mill their own coffee to parchment.
Harvest & Post-Harvest
The cherry coffee is sold to the Baroida wet mill collection point on a daily basis during harvest and the cherry is sorted and checked for quality and the growers are paid on the spot for their cherry.
Meticulous separation for quality control helps maintain the high quality of the estate’s coffee. After careful sorting, cherry is pulped on disk pulpers. Then, it dry-ferments in vats for approximately 36 hours. Water is pumped into the vats in a circular motion to naturally agitate the coffee and remove any remaining mucilage. Coffee is then sundried on tarps, where it is turned regularly to ensure even drying.
AX Grade
PNG’s unique grading system includes X and AX bean sizes. AX indicates that the lot has beans that are screen sizes 14 to 17. This means that are beans in an AX lot are between 5.5 and 6.75 millimeters in size.
Coffee in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a relative newcomer to the specialty coffee scene. The remote locations of the nation’s smallholders—who produce 85% of total coffee in the country—combined with historically-poor infrastructure has made the transition to specialty difficult. Nonetheless, the country is working towards innovative solutions that will hopefully lead to better quality coffee and improved livelihoods for the nation’s smallholder coffee producers.