Flat Black Coffee Company

The Ethiopian Nigusse Lemma Limu comes from a family-owned farm in Meto Gundb, in the Limu region of south-western Ethiopia. The farm owner, Lemma Edeto, began working with coffee nearly 60 years ago and has passed down his knowledge to his two sons Haile and Nigusse. Both sons maintain the farm, which their father recovered after it was confiscated in the 1970's by the Derg Regime. The farm sits at about 2,000 meters above sea level with natural spring streams and native indigenous varietals. The Lemma family also processes their coffee, giving them full control of the end product up to the final export stage. In February 2014 Nigusse and his family were recognized for winning the African Taste of Harvest competition, awarded by the African Fine Coffee Assocation. Ethiopian Limu; French Roast.

This coffee hails from the Gedeo Zone in south western Ethiopia. This coffee is grown south of the town of Yirgacheffe in an area that also grows Corn and of course, Bananas. This is a classic Ethiopian coffee with rustic berry, faint stonefruit and a lemony bite.

Tambaya is the name of the coffee factory (wetmill) within the Rumukia Coffee Farmer Society in the Karatina area of Nyeri, Kenya. Tambaya currently has around 1,100 members within the cooperative society. Each of the members are small farm holders with about 250 trees each. The area of Tambaya is 1,550 meters above sea level near Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare ranges. There are two main coffee varieties under cultivation: SL- 28 and SL-34, with the vast majority of trees consisting of SL-28. Karatina is home to the largest open market in East Africa and the second largest on the Continent. The town center lies about 100km north of Nairobi.

On July 11, 1985 the Cooperativa de Cafeicultores e Agropecuaristas (COCAPEC) was founded. COCAPEC began with almost 300 members in its first year of operations and today it has grown to over 2,000 members. The cooperative is renowned in this coffee-growing region for its technical support and natural drying methods. The technical department works in partnership with its members to guarantee consistent coffee quality. Currently, the high Mogiana region has an average annual production of more than one million bags of coffee, of which 85% is high quality beans produced at an optimal altitude and temperature. Our current offering is Fine Cup, the highest cup category in the Brazilian coffee grading. Brazil Mogiana; French Roast.

This coffee is grown in the region of Huila, Colombia and comes from a small, family run mill in Neiva, which is owned and operated by the Valencia family. The Valencia family has been a mainstay in the coffee collecting and processing business in Huila for over 30 years. They have quietly discovered the finest growing region in the state. What is so special about the Huila Valencia that it has generally replaced demand for generic Excelso and Supremo? The selective sourcing and attention to detail in processing, as well as the idea of a small, independent producer have set the Valencia coffees apart from the big, multinational mills. Full City Roast; French Roast.

This microlot comes from the Life Monteverde group which is an association of nine families from Monteverde, Costa Rica, with a strong background in agriculture and nature conservation. The group members have various professions and skills, including forestry, environmental education, administration and finances, coffee trade, agriculture, human resources and arts. The farm combines areas of conservation, organic agriculture and low environmental impact energy systems. Located near the Monteverde Cloud Forest and the farm maintains 50% of their land for conservation and forestry and is active in regional education while working with several American and Canadian universities. The Coffee itself is juicy and sweet, medium bodied and satisfying. Look for berry, plum and cherry tones over a delicate chocolate backround.

The Jampit Coffee growing region lies on the slopes of Raung, a still active massive volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia. Java delivers the warming woody, earthy tones expected from fine Indonesian coffees. Full City Roast; French Roast.

Kimel plantation was first established in 1974 by an Australian, Bobby Gibbs. It is now owned by traditional landowners, the Opais being the main tribe. Although locally owned, the plantation is managed by expatriate personnel, appointed by the local directors with extensive experience in plantation management. The plantation has a permanent workforce of 432 and they are housed on the estate in bush housing. The estate also provides schooling for the children and medical facilities for the workforce and their dependents. Clean running water has been made available to the estate workers by way of a community project financed by one of their overseas clients, and its implementation is overseen by the estate's management. Since the estate is located along the Kimel River, from which it derived its name, it has access to good, clean water for the processing of its crop, which is a prerequisite along with sound husbandry and dedicated management to continually create quality coffees. The estate's management also implements some ecology-friendly policies with regard to environmental issues, such as the recycling of pulp which is returned to the fields as organic fertilizer, and the recycling of water used during the wet processing. The cultivation is conducted under shade trees, like albizias and gravilleas.