Full City+ roast (dark). Medium to full body. Lively yet smooth. A sophisticated complete cup. It’s lively yet has the smooth body of a great Indonesian. With a medium to dark roast it’s a cup that’s hard to ignore. New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. It’s one of the most beautiful and diverse countries on earth, with over 850 indigenous languages and traditional cultures. It is also one of the most rural and least explored, with only 18% of it’s people living in urban centers. Most often, because of insufficient road conditions, coffee farmers haul the cherries out on their backs and bring them to the mill where they are processed for export. Farm sizes range from one to two acre plots to large plantations. The Kuta mill sources some of the cleanest coffee in all of Papua New Guinea with delicate cherry fruit notes, a bold, syrupy body and lively finish; it has it all.

Country:  Papua New Guinea

Region:  Wahgi Valley

Cup profile:  Bold, syrupy body. Clean with subtle chocolate, cherry fruit notes and a lively finish.

Farm/ mill/ grower:  Small, individual coffee farms. Kuta Mill

Processing:  Wet

Varietals:  Blue mountain, Typica, Arusha, Bourbon, Caturra

Harvest:  May – August

Altitude:  5,200 – 6,500 ft

Coffee production:  1 million bags

Annual export:  700,000 bags

Highest peak:  Mt. Wilhelm 14,793 ft.

Capitol:  Mt. Hagen

Language:  Tok Pisin, Hiri Moto

Did you know:  Seashells were abolished as currency in 1933.