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Mujeres Fuertes y Resilientes, strong and resilient women — started in 2022 when a handful of families in the Chirinos district of Cajamarca got tired of watching their carefully separated, high-scoring lots disappear into anonymous regional blends. Led by Lily Heredia and Neptaly Santos, they built something different: a co-op run by women, for the whole community, with its own cupping lab so producers could verify quality at the moment of delivery instead of taking someone else's word for it.

Edit Kayla Narvais Rojas is a recent member. This year she produced five 69-kilo sacks — a true nano lot — and it is the first time her coffee has crossed into North America under her own name. Washed Caturra, grown between 1,700 and 1,800 meters in ancient alluvial soil. It drinks like dried fruit and demerara: plums, figs, and a deep brown sugar sweetness that lingers.We bought all 5 bags she produced. 

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Peru PAWQARA — Edit Kayla Narvais Rojas

Peru PAWQARA — Edit Kayla Narvais Rojas

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Characteristics

Roast

Medium Light

Body

Rounded

Acidity

Balanced

Notes

Plums, Figs, Brown Sugar

Farm

Co-op: PAWQARA

Farmer

Edit Kayla Narvais Rojas

Elevation

1,700 - 1,800 MASL

Varietal

Caturra

Process

Washed

Location

Chirinos, San Ignacio, Cajamarca, Peru

Story

Triangle Accent

Mujeres Fuertes y Resilientes, strong and resilient women — started in 2022 when a handful of families in the Chirinos district of Cajamarca got tired of watching their carefully separated, high-scoring lots disappear into anonymous regional blends. Led by Lily Heredia and Neptaly Santos, they built something different: a co-op run by women, for the whole community, with its own cupping lab so producers could verify quality at the moment of delivery instead of taking someone else's word for it.

Edit Kayla Narvais Rojas is a recent member. This year she produced five 69-kilo sacks — a true nano lot — and it is the first time her coffee has crossed into North America under her own name. Washed Caturra, grown between 1,700 and 1,800 meters in ancient alluvial soil. It drinks like dried fruit and demerara: plums, figs, and a deep brown sugar sweetness that lingers.We bought all 5 bags she produced. 

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Established: 2012
Owners: Bobak (Bobby) Roshan
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Demitasse got started in the summer of 2011 in Los Angeles, California by Boback (Bobby) Roshan, who was a lawyer when he got into drinking specialty coffee. According to Roshan, “I was drinking mountains of specialty coffee at that time and really started falling into the rabbit hole that is specialty coffee. After a few months of fermenting in my mind, I decided to just go for it.”

Demitasse’s vision is to bring creativity and fun into the coffee drinking experience while being an active member in the community they serve.

Their cafes are known for the crazy drinks they make from scratch, the seasonally rotating shop drinks, the quirky and fun ways their brew coffee, and their commitment to eliminating waste. Their roastery is best known for being one of the first in Los Angeles to roast specialty coffee and being able to develop close relationships with the farms they work with in El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Africa is next!

Demitasse understands that sourcing coffee is more than just finding the tastiest coffees in a particular country and buying it. It’s about having the most impact on the coffee producers and adhering to specific guidelines around building and nurturing relationships with producers and forward thinking farmers who take care of their people and the land. “We find that the more we’ve stuck to these guidelines, the better and better our coffees have gotten each year. We value transparency and want you to know that we really do give a $%^& about from whom and where the coffee comes.”

Demitasse believes coffee should be fun and approachable. They vary their roasts so that there is something for everyone and they don't subscribe to a particular dogma when it comes to coffee. “We're approachable and always available to chat, collaborate and to answer questions. Honestly, we take what we do very seriously, but we don't take ourselves very seriously. Our brand reflects that.”