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Your coffee: Peru Churupampa
FARMS: Finca Churupampa SAC
LOCATION: Chirinos, San Ignácio - Cajamarca, Peru
CULTIVARS: Typica, Caturra and Pache
EXPORTER: Churupampa has own export license
IMPORTER: This Side Up Coffees
ROASTER: Special Roast
About the peruvian farms
Churupampa is not just a farm, it's a social business model which the Tocto family aims to expand, the last years to 30 neighbouring farms in their town of Chirinos. Some of the upgrades include better processing facilities, plant renovation schemes with the introduction of new varieties, new drying techniques with plastic covered raised beds to secure stable and uniform drying despite seasonal rainfalls. In 2018, the quality control team cupped around 4,000 samples. Not one lot goes uncupped! This coffee is also Organic and Fair Trade Certified.
Peru - coffee specs
what to taste for
Aroma: chocolate, caramel.
Body: round mouthfeel with a thick body.
Acidity: hint of dried berries.
Aftertaste: dark chocolate, cacao powder, molasses.
PROCESSING your coffee
The coffee is washed and double fermented - using a hand pulper, coffees are pulped and fermented in tiled tanks for about 12-24 hrs depending on weather. They are then washed and fermented again for the same amount of time.
ROASTING YOUR COFFEE
Special Roast uses a 22kg Probat UG22 roaster, that has been built in 1965. The roast time is 11 minutes. After the first crack, the coffee is roasted for a remainder of 25% of the time. To obtain the best flavor and taste each coffee or blend has a unique roast profile.
Relative PRICE BREAKDOWN
60%
is what the farmers get of the green coffee price in Rotterdam. This is for growing, harvest, milling and preparing the bags for export.
11%
Exporting by Finca Churupampa in Peru
6%
total shipping costs to Rotterdam. Full container loads good forwarding connections warrant such favourable shipping prices.
23%
Importing, financing, shipping bureaucracy, sampling and financing costs for This Side Up Coffees.
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Background of this coffee in the Netherlands
When we came across Churupampa through former This Side Upper Sara's network, we saw the smallholder development model that we are promoting worldwide, but fast-forwarded several years. The Tocto family's achievement is a national example of how entrepreneurship, respect for local farming traditions, circular thinking and direct roaster relations can completely change rural livelihoods. Since 2011, the coffee farming community in the town Chirinos has done away with the subsistence coffee farming mentality and steadily created a strong, quality focused brand: their innovative processing and independent quality control lab ensure that they can create beautiful coffees that are sought after yearly by the specialty market - up to now mainly in the US.
In 2017 This Side Up connected to Churupampa, and we immediately knew we wanted to welcome this group of farmers into our "family" and help them continue their path of quality innovation and expansion to more people in the region. As a first import, we sought to identify lots that represent the breadth that this origin can offer. The Churupampa lot is surprisingly fruity for a Peru with notes of apricot, orange, sugar and custard, whereas the Cordillera Nadina is deep sweet with notes of molasses, sugar cane, lime and cocoa nibs.