Stay Grounded Blog with Gento – Gento Coffee Roasters

Know Your Farmers: Meet Petrona Perez

Farmer Name: Petrona Perez Farm: Finca Satchibal Region: Huehuetenango, Guatemala Size: 5.5 Ha Altitude: 1,800 msnm Varietals: Bourbon Process: Fully washed and sun dried Meet Petrona Perez: Crafting Exceptional Coffee with Tradition and Heart For over four years, we’ve...

Everything You Need to Know About Preparing Coffees for Export and Consumption

Once the coffee is handpicked and dried at the farm to reach an optimal, commercially acceptable, humidity level of 10-12%, what happens next? The casing around the beans, called the parchment needs to be removed, and that’s it, right? In...

Let's Talk About Organic Coffee

Let's talk about organic Guatemalan coffee. Becoming a certified organic coffee farm is not an easy certification (and we should know, our founder is a 3rd generation coffee farmer). There are multiple stages of farming that need to follow...

Handpicked Coffee Cherries Make Better Coffee

Specialty coffee differs from your normal cup of Folgers in multiple ways. It's usually sourced from an artisanal farm, uses high quality Arabica beans with a high quality score, and must be handpicked. You read that right. Each cherry must be handpicked. In the world...

Crafting Coffee Blends: 6 Steps on How We Make Coffee Blends

How blended roasts are created by a coffee roastery. A Q grader's approach to making delicious blends.