Primavera Family

Description

Primavera Family is a washed Guatemalan coffee from Huehuetenango, and it's our new Easy Drinker. It's made up of the harvests of around 15 smallholder farmers, and the result is a really comforting coffee: ripe strawberry first, followed by brownie bites, Hobnob biscuit and cocoa. It's sweet, smooth and very forgiving, so it tastes great however you brew it. It makes a cracking flat white, and it's just as good in a big cafetière.

Flavour Characteristics

Best As: Espresso (milk or black) and filter (black)

Flavour Profile: Strawberry | Brownie Bites | Hobnob Biscuit | Cocoa

Origin & Producer Details

Producers: Around 15 smallholder farmers

Region: San Antonio Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Variety: Caturra

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1,550–1,650 MASL

Q-Score: 84–85

Sourced Via: Primavera Green Coffee

Suitable for

Espresso✓ Suitable

Filter Brewing✓ Suitable

Recommended rest

Days 0–19
Resting

Days 20–38
Best-tasting window

38+
Freeze

Recommended rest: For the best tasting results, we suggest brewing Primavera Family 20–38 days off roast. Read our guide to resting coffee for more. Learn why light roasts reward a longer rest.

Bought more than you can drink at its peak? Our guide to freezing coffee shows how to keep it tasting this good for months.

About Primavera Family

A Family of Small Producers

Rather than coming from a single farm, Primavera Family is the signature regional lot from Primavera, a green coffee exporter with its roots in Guatemala. It brings together coffee from around 15 smallholder farmers near San Antonio Huista in Huehuetenango.

Each of these farms is too small to sell its coffee as a microlot. By blending their harvests together, Primavera can buy from them every year and pay a better price, which helps the farmers put money back into their farms and wet mills. Primavera's agronomists work alongside the producers in the field, and the lot is still fully traceable back to each farm.

Our New Easy Drinker

We always like to have one coffee on the menu that's an easy win for everyone, and Primavera Family is exactly that. It's a clean, sweet washed coffee that tastes like a strawberry dipped in chocolate, with a biscuity, cocoa-rich finish that goes brilliantly with milk.

About Huehuetenango

Huehuetenango sits in Guatemala's western highlands, on the border with Mexico. It's one of the country's highest and most remote coffee regions, and warm, dry winds from the Mexican lowlands help protect its mountain farms from frost, so coffee can be grown at high altitude.

High-grown coffee ripens more slowly, which can give the beans more sweetness and complexity in the cup.

Washed Processing

Washed processing tends to let the coffee's variety and growing conditions come through clearly, with less influence from the fruit during drying than in natural processing.

In a typical washed process, producers remove the cherry skin, then ferment and wash the coffee to remove its sticky mucilage before drying it. The exact fermentation and drying methods vary between producers.

If you'd like to learn more, you can enjoy our extremely comprehensive coffee processing guide, which details all of the coffee processes that you're likely to encounter.

The Caturra Variety

Caturra is a natural mutation of Bourbon, first discovered in Brazil in the early 20th century. A single gene keeps the plant compact, so farmers can grow more trees closer together, and it produces good yields of high-quality coffee.

It went on to become one of the most widely planted varieties in Central America, and it's still a mainstay in Guatemala today. In the cup, Caturra is known for being sweet and clean, which is a big part of why this lot is so easy to love.

How to Brew This Coffee

Dial In With Accuracy

Primavera Family is a forgiving coffee, but accurately measuring your dose and yield will still help you hit the sweet spot. We strongly recommend using a reliable scale. See our guide to the best coffee scales and our bench favourite, the Felicita Parallel.

Brewing Tips

Primavera Family is an easy coffee to get right. It's sweet and chocolatey as a filter, and a rich, comforting espresso that loves milk.

Rest window: Follow the recommended 20–38 days off roast for the best sweetness and balance.

Filter brewing: Start with a 1:16 ratio and a medium grind, then adjust to taste. Grind quality makes a big difference with filter, so here's our pick of the best filter coffee grinders for home.

Espresso: Start around 1:2 to bring out its brownie and cocoa sweetness. Making milk drinks? Here's what temperature a flat white should be. An even, level tamp matters here too; see our guide to the best coffee tampers.

Cafetière: A forgiving coffee for a French press. Use a coarse grind and steep for about 4 minutes.

Starting recipe: Orea V4, 15.5 g coffee, 250 g water, target brew time of approximately 2:20.

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