Dark Matter Coffee – 12 Oz Bag – Gloria (BG-New)

Gloria, an annual blend that has been a staple in our lineup for the past 8 years, featuring the artwork of Isamar (Instagram: Kawaii Suga). She is a Chicago native and is heavily involved in supporting the city’s art community, exploring social taboos women face in her own artwork. The name of this blend is a nod to Gloria Anzaldúa, an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory, and Gloria Steinem, an American feminist, journalist, and social-political activist who recently passed away. We will be donating $1 per bag to the Illinois chapter of Planned Parenthood.

For this blend, we like to highlight a bright, more fruit-forward profile, so the base of this blend is a natural processed coffee from the Pacas Family at Cafe Tuxpal in El Salvador. These Bourbon and Pacas cherries are dried slowly over several weeks to create a juicy cup profile. We are pairing this with a washed coffee from Honduras that we sourced through our long-standing relationship with the Dunaway family at Copan Trade. Finca La Fortuna is owned by Rene Garcia, a retired school teacher who took an interest in coffee cultivation and is a first-generation coffee producer, renovating land in the community of Plan del Rancho in the region of Ocotepeque, where agriculture is primarily vegetables, a relatively new area for coffee production. They are growing Lempira, Costa Rica 95, and Parainema on their farm, all sustainable varieties that have Timor genetics, an effort to grow trees with stronger root structures, more disease resistance, and higher yields while still producing an elegant cup. This coffee has a brown sugar and plum-like profile that adds more complex fruit notes to the blend, while balancing the acidity with sweetness.

Country: El Salvador
Mill: Cafe Tuxpal
Cultivar: Bourbon & Pacas
Process: Natural

Country: Honduras
Farm: La Fortuna
Cultivar: Mixed
Process: Washed