The Tekwani Café

First things first, if you are here, that means you have a bag of Tekwani Café. This also means we are super thankful for your business and support this year, without it our company would not be what it is and becoming today. So here is a brief bit about this coffee we hope you will enjoy during the holidays.

We decided to cap off this year by roasting our own coffee. Now, are we roasting and selling coffee at Tekwani? Not really! We primarily are busy branding and packaging coffee and other projects, though we have a few coffees we promote. However, to support our coffee initiative, we wanted to follow coffee from seed to cup.

We wanted to understand coffee's entire supply chain. So thanks to Kevin and Kenneth at Roaster Share Denver for guiding me in learning to roast this coffee. I have a long, long, long way to go to get good at this, but since I worked with a Q-grader and picked some pointers from friends in coffee, I’m pretty happy with this roast.

So, what did we roast? Well, this is a coffee from El Salvador called Limonares. It’s a hybrid variety it’s an anaerobic natural. But what does that mean?

Well, first the coffee is picked and dried with the cherry on. Then it is fermented without oxygen.

Basically, water, sugar, bacteria, and yeast have a party in these blue barrels for 72 hours. This unlocks some amazingly rare and intriguing flavors in the coffee. It’s really special and results in little to no wastewater.

When we visited Carlos Pola's Finca San Antonio, we saw this process and then cupped this coffee in Jauyua at Carlos’ cupping lab. This coffee smells incredible, and there is a juiciness along with a nice velvety finish on your tongue. It’s a very special process from a producer whose innovative farming results in better soil as the result of working with the micro-rhizome to break down soil and infuse it with nitrogen from the native trees. The ecosystem becomes more balanced, and the terraced farming techniques used by Carlos result in better conditions for the people who pick the coffee.

So that’s it that’s what's in the bag, and I hope you enjoy it! Bottom line, this bag is not just us roasting and packaging it. It’s been handpicked and processed, then shipped by so many hands. A lot of labor and effort goes into coffee. We want you to savor and know more about this amazing product. I hope you can taste and see that that there really isn’t such a thing as "just a cup of coffee."

Happy Holidays from Tekwani!