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Bolivia Organic Caranavi FTO, La Paz Department

from $17.00

What a coffee we have in the Caranavi! It is cultivated by an indigenous cooperative of 41 small farms, averaging 3 acres each, centered on Caranavi, around 100 miles northeast of the country’s administrative center La Paz. Bordering the Andes mountains and Amazonian rainforest, our cultivar is at the heart of Bolivia’s most significant coffee-producing Yungas Region. Amy and I really like Bolivian coffee but, unfortunately, they have been difficult to come by and now, fortunately, there is a revitalized push to renew their international presence. Aromas of chocolate malted milk, like your grandma made, that tinkles the taste buds with a velvety Kahlua crescendo. This is a great coffee… Guevara said, “Let the world change you and you can change the world.” We are not revolutionaries at Next Chapter, but we hold firm a soul’s elevation can be ignited thorough an existential engagement with coffee’s culture. Is aroma important… yes. Is flavor important… yes. Are the tapered fringes of coffees fragile ecosystem of people and place essential… a resounding yes. Consume this delight with joy but recall the resonant experiential echoes as you walk the halls of our world.

Process: Washed… cherry removed before drying.

Elevation: 3900 - 5250 feet

Aroma: On the grind… sweet caramel and vanilla, toasted dark malt. On the brew… hot malted chocolate milk.

Flavor: Starts with sweet chocolate reminding us of Kahlua. Finishes with a bittersweet creaminess.

Roast: Medium… medium creamy body… moderate acidity.

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What a coffee we have in the Caranavi! It is cultivated by an indigenous cooperative of 41 small farms, averaging 3 acres each, centered on Caranavi, around 100 miles northeast of the country’s administrative center La Paz. Bordering the Andes mountains and Amazonian rainforest, our cultivar is at the heart of Bolivia’s most significant coffee-producing Yungas Region. Amy and I really like Bolivian coffee but, unfortunately, they have been difficult to come by and now, fortunately, there is a revitalized push to renew their international presence. Aromas of chocolate malted milk, like your grandma made, that tinkles the taste buds with a velvety Kahlua crescendo. This is a great coffee… Guevara said, “Let the world change you and you can change the world.” We are not revolutionaries at Next Chapter, but we hold firm a soul’s elevation can be ignited thorough an existential engagement with coffee’s culture. Is aroma important… yes. Is flavor important… yes. Are the tapered fringes of coffees fragile ecosystem of people and place essential… a resounding yes. Consume this delight with joy but recall the resonant experiential echoes as you walk the halls of our world.

Process: Washed… cherry removed before drying.

Elevation: 3900 - 5250 feet

Aroma: On the grind… sweet caramel and vanilla, toasted dark malt. On the brew… hot malted chocolate milk.

Flavor: Starts with sweet chocolate reminding us of Kahlua. Finishes with a bittersweet creaminess.

Roast: Medium… medium creamy body… moderate acidity.

TBolivia, roughly the size of California and Texas, is bordered north and east by Brazil, south by Paraguay and Argentina, and west by Chile and Peru. Super interesting political history but we will limit our expose in highlighting Che Guevara’s CIA assassination on 9 October 1967 in Bolivia. Guevara, with his signature berea, is literally the stylized visage and the quintessential philosophical undertone for the counterculture of rebellion. I can’t listen to a Warren Zevon song and not think of a little Guevara seasoning in the lyrics. What about reading some Hunter S. Thompson… I feel fairly confident Thompson, tremendous ego and all, would see himself as a drinking buddy although Guevara probably would call “bovine excrement”. Oh, by the way, Bolivia is named for Simon Bolivar, the famous Venezuelan leader in the Spanish American Wars for Independence… as Zevon would sing “the eternal Thompson gunner still wondering through the night”… revolution never ends.  

Process: Washed… cherry removed before drying.

Elevation: 3900 - 5250 feet