February 2025: Podium Gold. Reprise Coffee

Pacamara is a cross between Pacas & Maragogype. The size of the bean is noticeably enormous. This low-yielding variety is a collaboration of multiple farmers in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua. The coffee is immaculately clean with notes of white peach, spring honey & apple crisp.

This coffee comes from Gold Mountain Coffee Growers, which is a Nicaraguan-based social enterprise that works directly with coffee farmers to produce high-quality specialty coffee while also supporting sustainable development in local communities.

Gold Mountain Coffee Growers partners with smallholder farmers in regions like Jinotega and Matagalpa. They ensure meticulous quality control by standing on farms during picking to check ripeness and supporting farmers with tools and best practices. Their commitment to ethical sourcing includes direct trade relationships with roasters like Reprise, eliminating middlemen to ensure fair compensation for farmers.

Reprise Coffee Roasters, based in Evanston, Illinois, is a vibrant, community-focused coffee business with a passion for sustainability and high-quality coffee. The company started its journey with a roastery and café in Winnetka and has expanded to a welcoming 1,500-square-foot café in Evanston.

Reprise takes pride in being coffee grower-, roaster-, and barista-owned. They source most of their beans from Gold Mountain Coffee Growers, a direct trade farming group that connects farmers of exquisite specialty coffees in Nicaragua with roasters.
The devastating reality of the coffee economy is that most farmers are restricted by the artificially low cost of coffee and can’t live a dignified life.
Gold Mountain was created to fight poverty through quality coffee, and they’re doing an amazing of a job of it.

Reprise's many coffee accolades include being the reigning Small Chain Overall Champions, as well as 4 x gold medallists at Golden Bean.