Pure Elements H20 is now proud to present sustainably-sourced coffee beans! We offer the below blends and more. Please contact us if you are interested!
Coffee Blends
Golden Hour Blend
A distinctive, rotating blend of our nicest coffees, the Golden Hour is an absolute sweetheart blend. The Central American components bring chocolate, praline and creamy body, while the East African component adds jasmine aroma and berry sweetness. Combined, they produce a sweet and clean cup to please the most discerning drinker. Excels in pour-over or drip, and absolutely stunning as a lighter roast, the Golden Hour also holds up extremely well as a juicier take on traditional, medium-dark espresso. Currently the Golden Hour Blend combines washed Guatemalan and naturally processed Ethiopian coffees.
Meridian Blend
Approachable yet complex, the Meridian blend is a coffee that everyone can come home to. We pick the best Central and South American coffees of the current harvest and combine them for a balance of acidity, body and sweetness. The blend is currently made up of washed process Guatemalan and Colombian coffees. Our tasters get caramel, toffee and dark chocolate, with more and more bittersweet cacao as the coffee is roasted darker. Appropriate for all brewing methods.
Sunrise Blend
The Sunrise is built around sweetness, silky body and a restrained acidity. Originally designed as a traditional espresso blend, we’ve found it serves very well as a drip coffee for those who prefer a simpler, smoother cup with lots of ripe red cherry. It shines with or without cream, and works especially well as a cold brew, where it’s cola and tamarind flavors come out into full blossom. Takes dark roasts well, especially for those who like their coffees to be full of deep pipe tobacco and malty sweetness. The components of the Sunrise Blend rotate seasonally as fresh coffees arrive, but the current iteration is comprised of a naturally processed Brazilian coffee and a washed process Ethiopian coffee.
BRAZIL – Parceiros do Café
Parceiros do Café is a Bellwether exclusive lot that comes from producers in Cerrado Mineiro, Brazil. This lot is fully traceable as part of the Regiao Cerrado Mineiro Designation of Origin program. Coffees certified with the Designation of Origin are grown on farms in an area encompassing 55 municipalities that produce coffees with a unique identity, resulting from the combination of climate, soil, terrain, elevation, and the “know-how” of producers. The producers belong to one of nine cooperatives or six associations affiliated with the Cerrado Coffee Growers Federation, have signed a statement of good practices in accordance with Brazilian labor laws, and store coffee in accredited warehouses post-harvest.
BURUNDI – Turihamwe
This exceptional coffee was produced entirely by women farmers and processed at the Gitemezi wet mill in the Ngozi Province. The mill was built in 2018 by a group of women farmers who had long wanted a processing site of their own for quality assurance. The group of women farmers behind this coffee are a part of a larger producer group who refers to themselves as Turihamwe Turashobora in Kirundi, which translates to “Together We Can!’’ They achieved an output of 1,000 bags of coffee this year, with plans to reach 1,200 in 2021. The wet mill and quality team is entirely women-led and works closely with trained Q Graders on best quality practices and lot curation.
COLOMBIA – Magia del Campo
Tolima, Colombia has been known more for violence in recent decades than specialty coffee. That narrative is changing with the dedicated work of producer groups like ASOPEP which has, against all odds, become one of the most professionalized cooperatives in the region offering consistent, world-class coffees year after year. Not content with just producing excellent coffee, ASOPEP is also a force for good in the region. This coffee was purchased using Bellwether’s Living Income Pricing benchmark which ensures that coffee producers were paid a fair, sustainable wage.
COSTA RICA – Guanacaste
The Costa Rica Guanacaste is produced by smallholder farmers in the La Esperanza community of Los Santos de Tarrazú region. The Tarrazú region lies in the high mountains of the southern Pacific region south of Costa Rica’s capital city of San Jose and is one of the most densely planted high altitude regions in Central America, with many farms at or above 2000 meters above sea level. The fertile, volcanic soils and rolling mountainsides of Tarrazú are well-suited for agriculture. Smallholder producers grow bananas, avocado, and citrus as well as coffee on properties passed between generations. Coffee is a family affair in Tarrazú, with everyone working to help pick and sort coffee during the harvest season and maintain the land during the year.
COSTA RICA – Obata Honey
Alberto Guardia began growing coffee at Hacienda Sonora in the 1970s. The 100-hectare farm sits at the foot of the active Poás Volcano in Costa Rica’s Central Valley. Sonora has a well-earned reputation for producing quality microlots featuring specific varietal and processing separation. This honey-processed lot is made up entirely of the Obata variety, which is a cross between Villa Sarchi and Timor coffee varieties. Hacienda Sonora has a heavy focus on environmental and social impact—the farm uses 100 percent renewable energy that’s harvested on the farm and has also eliminated excess water usage by utilizing natural and honey processing methods. Sonora also provides workers and their families free accommodations, including most household utilities, in the farm’s houses.
DECAF COLOMBIA – Magia del Campo
Tolima, Colombia has been known more for violence in recent decades than specialty coffee. That narrative is changing with the dedicated work of producer groups like ASOPEP which has, against all odds, become one of the most professionalized cooperatives in the region offering consistent, world-class coffees year after year. Not content with just producing excellent coffee, ASOPEP is also a force for good in the region. In an effort to continue evolving our relationship with ASOPEP we are now offering this 100% women-produced ethyl acetate decaffeinated lot from the cooperative.
EAST JAVA – Konang Springs Natural
This exceptional coffee is grown in the foothills of Mount Argopuro in the Situbondo Regency of the East Java Province of Java Island. The villagers who grow the coffee come from Tlogosari Village, and together form the Pokmas Walida Cooperative led by Pak Muhlisin. The cooperative partners with exporter, Belift Green Beans, to bring high-quality, transparent coffees like this one to new markets. This naturally processed coffee is painstakingly cared for in the extremely humid environment to ensure consistency and quality. This coffee was dried on raised beds for 15-16 days and stirred once every hour before being patio dried for an additional 8-10 days.
EL SALVADOR – Lenca
The department of Morazan, an area of ancient forests, has a long tradition of coffee cultivation. Indigenous languages that are spoken by very few in the community identify this land as “Lenca”, which roughly translates to “The Land of Abundant Water”. The bounty of fresh water, fertile land, and incredible altitudes lead to the formation of “cloud forests”, which protect plants from extreme weather. The El Rio Grande de San Miguel, one of the main water sources for the eastern part of El Salvador, feeds over 20 communities and allows producers to flourish even with harsh weather fluctuations and droughts.
ETHIOPIA – Mother Station Natural
Ethiopia Mother Station Natural is grown and harvested in Bombe, Sidama, a place known for its rich vegetation and climate. The coffee is produced by local farmers and processed at the Qonqana washing station, named for a river that passes through the area. The washing station was the first and largest built by Daye Bensa Coffee, a company run by brothers Asefa and Mulugeta Dukamo that has built numerous mills in the Sidamo region and also exports and grows coffee. Mill owners, Daye Bensa, make use of environmentally friendly depulping and pressurized sorting machinery. They also compost and have a dedicated waste water treatment. Being one of the first in the area, the washing station is often referred to as “The Mother Station” by locals.
ETHIOPIA – Mother Station Washed
Ethiopia Mother Station Washed is grown and harvested in Bombe, Sidama, a place known for its rich vegetation and climate. The coffee is produced by local farmers and processed at the Qonqana washing station, named for a river that passes through the area. The washing station was the first and largest built by Daye Bensa Coffee, a company run by brothers Asefa and Mulugeta Dukamo that has built numerous mills in the Sidamo region and also exports and grows coffee. Being one of the first in the area, the washing station is often referred to as “The Mother Station” by locals.
GUATEMALA – Manos de Mujer
Guatemala Manos de Mujer comes from the ACODIHUE cooperative in the mountainous territory of Cuchumatan, Huehuetenango near the border with Mexico. Manos de Mujer is grown and produced by indigenous women who are now the owners of their land as a result of widowing from a civil war and men migrating into the United States. ACODIHUE certified the women producers as Manos de Mujer (Women’s Hands) to recognize the hard work of these women and their contribution to both their households and to the national economy. Only 22% of ACODIHUE’s annual production goes under the designation of Café con Manos de Mujer, representing a refined selection of the cooperative’s coffee. The ripe Manos de Mujer coffee is picked by hand during the harvest season, which begins shortly after Christmas and lasts until nearly Easter. The coffee is grown at an average elevation of 1500 meters above sea level. The most common varieties are Red and yellow Bourbon, as well as Typica and Caturra.
HONDURAS – COMSA Women’s Lot
The COMSA cooperative was founded in Marcala, La Paz in 2001 with just 60 producer-members and has grown to over 1,500. The cooperative is rooted in organic farm management practices, the empowerment of small farmers from the region and meticulous post-harvest standards of hand sorting cherry, cherry floating, proper fermentation and long drying times. Over the years, COMSA has significantly increased the participation of women within the organization, which has resulted in an active women’s group that processes their own community lots. This particular lot is a washed processed coffee, which comes from 15 farms owned by women member-producers.
KENYA – Mandela Estate
The Mandela Estate sits near the Gatamaiyo Forest Reserve in Kiambu County, Kenya. Unlike typical estates in Kenya, Mandela is a patchwork of small plots of land rented by a single owner and farm manager, Mr Kiongo Njuguna. Its peculiar shape is the result of many years of investment and expansion in small neighboring tracks of land. The estate has two harvests each year, one in June – Aug and another in Oct – Dec, which are typical of the region. The ripening of the cherry is closely monitored and when the time is right the red cherry is hand-picked and brought to the washing station down the road. The cherry is then de-pulped, washed and dried on raised beds in the sun until it reaches the 10-12% target
MEXICO – Mayan Harvest Women’s Group
Mexico Mayan Harvest Women’s Group is sourced from 168 family-owned farms located in communities within the municipality of Bella Vista in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Rosalba Cifuentes Tovia, who was raised in the Bella Vista coffee community, has dedicated herself to helping producers with small plots of land, averaging 5 acres, earn a better price for their coffee. Rosalba ensures traceability for her community’s coffee by personally exporting the coffee directly to the Bay Area. Through Mayan Harvest’s system of traceability and improved premiums returned directly to the women, this coffee recognizes their work and empowers them financially.
NICARAGUA – La Estrella
The Nicaragua La Estrella comes from 126 small scale producers located in the department of Nueva Segovia approximately 150 miles from Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. This region is very close to the border of Honduras and is part of the Cordillera de Dipilto Nature Reserve. The reserve is a place rich with biodiversity of flora and fauna. The name Estrella comes from the Beneficio La Estrella, the coffee wet mill founded in 2013 in Ocotal. Nicaragua La Estrella is comprised of coffee from producers in different municipalities around Nueva Segovia such as Macuelizo, San Fernando, Mozonte and Jalapa.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Bunum Wo Peaberry
The Papua New Guinea Bunum Wo Peaberry comes to us through our partners at Benchmark Coffee Traders. They have direct family ties with these coffee producers from the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands Province and support the pickers and farmers with free housing, healthcare, and schooling. Coffees from the estate go through a careful picking, sorting, fermentation, and drying process before the final hand-sorting occurs. The coffees are then meticulously graded, roasted, and cupped by their quality control team.
PERU – Churupampa
Finca Churupampa is a very progressive coffee farm in Chirinos, Cajamarca, Peru. The Tocto brothers took over the farm’s operations from their parents several years ago and are transforming it into a model for economically and environmentally sustainable coffee production. In addition to selling coffee from their own farm, the Toctos provide export and marketing services for 215 neighboring farmers. Finca Churupampa has a training center that is open to the entire community, and works with farmers to improve their production practices to break a cycle of poverty that has entrapped farmers in the region for many years. Churupampa is highly focused on the welfare of both the coffee producers and the environment. They provide farmers with opportunities to improve production practices, focus on organic farming, and utilize a soil management program which produces fertilizers and compost using a diverse selection of microorganisms gathered from the surrounding forest.
RWANDA – Gasharu Natural
The Gasharu Coffee Company was started by Celestin Rumenerangabo in the 1970s. Spending nearly all of his savings, he initially purchased 380 coffee trees and then expanded the business by purchasing cherry from local farmers as well. The business grew significantly from 1978 to 1994, but the Tutsi genocide drove Celestin and his family to flee the country. In 1998 they were finally able to return and begin re-establishing the business from almost nothing. While the coffee farms were intact, they lost the majority of their partners and had little money to start again. It was a difficult time, but they now operate a thriving business with over 8,500 trees and two washing stations, Muhororo and Gasharu, and are leaders of social and economic change within their community.
RWANDA – Rambagirakawa
The Rambagirakawa women’s group was formed in 2012 with full support from the Dukunde Kawa cooperative in the Gakenke District in Northern Rwanda. Rambagirakawa means “professional women owning and growing coffee trees.” There are currently 70 female members of this expanding group. The cooperative supports these members through farmer training programs, site collector training programs and several women focused initiatives, including a new building specifically built for the Rambagirakawa group. In addition to these educational and social programs, the cooperative continues to improve quality control with the use of their state-of-the-art cupping lab and investment in new processing, sorting, and drying equipment.
SUMATRA – Kerinci
Sumatra Kerinci comes from members of the Koerintji Barokah Bersama Cooperative who live and farm at the foot of Mount Kerinci. The 320 member coop was founded in 2017 and is managed by Triyono, who leads members in processing and roasting their own coffees. Producers pay a one-time membership fee of around 400 dollars to join the coop and receive technical support and seedlings for shade trees to plant on and around their farms. Members of the coop have a fixed buyer for their cherries, and at the end of the year, the coop invests its profits in either infrastructure to increase quality, or shares them as quality premiums with the member producers
SUMATRA – Lintong
This coffee comes from the Lintong region of the North Sumatra Province and is comprised of various smallholder farmers from the towns of Siborongborong, Dolok Sanggul and Lintong Nihuta. These towns sit around the southern edge of Lake Toba, the largest volcanic lake in the world. Like most coffee in Sumatra, this coffee is grown by smallholder farmers whose farms are located between 1,500 and 1,800 meters above sea level. Nine out of ten coffee farmers in Sumatra grow coffee on less than one hectare of land. The area is lush with a high diversity of plant life and the soil is volcanic. These factors, combined with the elevation of the high plateau, help to make Lintong ideal for growing a wide variety of high-end specialty coffees.