June 2024: Tipico Coffee Roasters. Good Food Awards Winner 2023.

The Coffee:

Las Moritas, Yellow Pacamara. Washed.

Finca Las Moritas is located in the mountainous region of El Progreso in Eastern Guatemala. Amongst the pine trees and avocados are some stunning coffee plants that Higinio Gomez and his wife Aura have crafted over 20 years.

While they have many parcels of land and varieties of coffee, this lot is comprised of only Yellow Pacamara. The yellow refers to the color of the cherry and Pacamara is the unique variety of Arabica coffee. These are two identifiers that make this lot special.

This is a rare lot as only a handful of bags were produced of this Yellow Pacamara. With notes of Passionfruit, kumquat, nougat, and a delicate body that reminds us of fancy grade maple syrup, you're going to be blown away by this coffee.

The Roaster:

Tipico was founded in 2015 as a café on Buffalo’s lower westside.

In 2017, co-founders, Jesse and Pete, created the roastery and started selling wholesale and through their website.

Jesse and Pete's shared vision of what great coffee looks like won them a Good Food Award in 2023 for their Guatemala Las Moritas Yellow Pacamara.

The plaudits are no fluke though, and the Tipico team regularly submit their coffees to coffeereview.com and have received many 92+ point reviews.

Stylistically, Jesse and Pete have a strong preference for sweetness and dynamic profiles when cupping coffees, and they source coffees as directly as possible through relationships they have been building since before Tipico was even created.

This precision with their flavor profiling, and having long-standing direct relationships to ensure superb quality, mean they're creating some of the most exceptional coffees in the US.