Gabriela Cordon's Coffee Blog

Oh my! Let's see. Guatemala is ready for new trends on different segments of the market (and without doubting, the following could be applied for Central America and South America). First of all lets's take a look to growers and their possibilities.

“My coffee is the best of the world”.

That is just the right expression for local consumption in Guatemala. A boom of coffee, not only because Starbucks’s opened  in El Salvador, November 2010, and now in Guatemala since  March 19th., but becasue coffee houses started to adjust their strategies to offer a better poduct. Why they waited so long? Does not matter, the thing is chages are for good.

You know, for local consumption in Guatemala City, this may sound like a good strategy.  More places where coffee is served, more possibilities for people to choose the profile they like the most.

Cup of Excellence international jury came to Guatemala City during the week of May 24-28. They managed to award 28 farms, the largest number since 2002, in ANACAFE'S headquarters just before the Pacaya volcano started to through volcanic rocks and a rain or sand.

It has been a busy end of 2009. I love beginnings and 2010 is promising. I am sure it will bring us opportunities to make it a better year.

Photo by Blogdeguatemala.com 

Guatemala City, November 8th. 2009. The National Growers Association's, ANACAFE, officials announced yesterday that Raul Rodas was the three time winner of the Guatemala Barista Competition. Noe Castro, representing Café San Lucas and Barista Champion in 2006, and Pablo Bobadilla from &Café allocated in 2nd. and 3rd. places.

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If you travel South of Guatemala, your senses will be surprised with many and different experiences. Beginning with rare and strange aromas that if combined with pouring rain, become even more indescribable.  Processing rubber, sugar, banana leaves, wet soil are just some of them. An orchestra of cicadas and crickets always accompany the journey.

... That is Quauhtlemallan, a "nahuatl" word the Toltecas used to use to name Guatemala. It is not just a nice name. One visit is enough for you to see the luxurious vegetation that covers the highest picks of Central America and 33 majestic volcanoes. In such a mystic small place, almost the same size as the state of Tennessee, not only the Mayans built one of the most outstanding civilizations of the Americas, but also Jesuit priests thought this would be nice microclimate for ornamental coffee plants.