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Meya, filter coffee from Mexico

Roasted for

Filterkaffee

preparation

Alle Filtermethoden

Quantity: 250g

250g

Quantity:

13,90 €

55,60 €/kg inkl. MwSt

Leicht

Delivery time 1–3 working days

Orders placed by 12 PM are usually shipped the same day

We are really proud of this: Meya is the first microlot from the Toca project in Mexico. With this Kaffeemacher, the young cooperative we have been supporting for years is setting new standards in the Sierra de Zongolica. The cherries were fermented in bags and dried as natural process. The Kaffeemacher shows notes of red berries, is juicy and elegant.

Meya - Coffee Information

Flavor	Red berries, juicy, elegant
Bean Origin	Sierra de Zongolica, Veracruz, Mexico
Producer	Citlal Kafen Cooperative ("Coffee Star")
Varieties	Garnica, Typica, Bourbon
Post-Harvest Process	90 hours fermentation, then dried as Natural
Growing Philosophy	Traditional intercropping. All producers grow fruits alongside coffee.
All our coffees are sold as whole beans.

How We Prepare the Coffee

The first roasts have left the coffee house. For the recipe, we like to let coffee off-gas for at least a week—it's currently still too fresh. You'll find the recipe here in approximately 1-2 weeks.

Why Does the Coffee Taste the Way It Does?

It can get noticeably cool in the Sierra de Zongolica. Behind Orizaba, the first hills rise up and continue to climb, until you reach the rugged valleys of the Sierra. The slopes are steep, and clouds hang visibly among them. When the sun is out, the valleys heat up considerably. This makes coffee cultivation challenging, especially for Naturals.

The cherries are picked and fermented in plastic bags before drying on raised beds. Because it's often cool, drying takes a very long time. And because it's often damp, the risk of fungal growth increases. Special care is required here.

This all shows in the flavor: The fresh, juicy acidity comes from the growing conditions, because the cool temperatures allow the cherries to ripen slowly. The 90-hour fermentation emphasizes a fresh fruit character focused on red fruits, without overwhelming the acidity. The silky, elegant texture comes from careful harvesting and manual sorting of the cherries.

Why Did We Buy This Coffee?

Since 2022, we've been working with Ensambles and the producers of Citlal Kafen to improve coffee quality and strengthen the cooperative. The Toca is the washed cooperative blend. But the goal was always also to produce microlots.

For this, individual lots of particularly high-quality coffee cherries are separated, fermented, and dried in the cherry as Natural. This is a new process, not only for the cooperative, but for the entire region.

For long-term projects that are meant to create lasting change on the ground, it's important that they produce coffees that are sensorically in the Champions League. This is the first lot that the young cooperative has processed this way. The appetite is whetted.