Colombia, La Piragua, Striped Bourbon

A rare Colombian Mokka from Felipe Arcila's Jardines del Encanto, exclusively for Kiss the Hippo. Notes of raspberry, cacao and cinnamon. Just 100 packs, 48 hour slow natural.

Producer Diego Robelo, Aquiares Estate Farm/Mill Aquiares Estate Cultivar Mariana (F1 hybrid) Process Washed Location Turrialba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica Altitude 1,000 - 1,400 masl Harvest February 2026 Expect notes of Caramel, Vanilla, Candied Lemon Aquiares means "land between rivers" in the indigenous Huetar language, named for the two rivers that bracket the estate's slopes on Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano. Six hundred hectares of coffee grow here under native shade, a canopy Diego Robelo and his team have spent two decades building. Since 2000 more than 50,000 native shade trees have gone in across the farm. The result: Aquiares now captures over four times the carbon it emits each year, (certified to ISO 14064 by INTECO under Costa Rica's NAMA Café programme and verified on the ground by a research station run jointly with CIRAD and CATIE). The wildlife has answered in kind. Bird species recorded on the estate have climbed from 30 in 2003 to over 140. This washed lot is Mariana, an F1 hybrid bred for leaf-rust resistance and cup quality, and one of the first propagated from seed rather than tissue culture. Grown under that shade canopy, it lands mellow and balanced in the cup. For Diego Robelo, who has run the farm since 2013, success is measured on one timeline: being here in 100 years.

Producer Doyo Cooperative (around 430 smallholder farmers) Farm/Mill Doyo Washing Station Cultivar Ethiopian Heirloom Process Washed Location Mana District, Jimma Zone, Oromia, Western Ethiopia Altitude 1,800 - 2,100 masl Harvest Late 2025 Expect notes of Satsuma, Black Tea, Sultana This crisp Ethiopian washed comes from the Doyo Cooperative, a community of around 430 smallholder farmers in the Mana district of Jimma, Western Ethiopia. Working under the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, one of the country's largest organic and Fairtrade producers, Doyo's growers tend small organic plots high in the hills, often alongside maize, teff and bananas. Grown between 1,800 and 2,100 metres on a mix of heirloom varieties and washed at the cooperative's own station, the result lands bright and tea-like in the cup: a clean, juicy flavour of satsuma, the structure of black tea, and soft sultana sweetness on the finish.

Producer Merlith Cruz and Simon Brown Cultivar Geisha Process Washed - 72 hour Inoculated Mosto Location El Porvenir, Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru Altitude 1,950 - 2,050 masl Harvest December 2025 Expect notes of Lemon Curd, Mango, Bergamot Las Etíopes is a young 7-hectare farm in El Porvenir, high in Peru's Cajamarca region. Husband-and-wife team Merlith Cruz and Simon Brown bought the land in 2019 and planted the first trees the following year. The distinction of this lot lies in the meeting of old and new at every step. The Geisha itself is a heritage variety, grown on shaded slopes at high altitude and hand-picked the traditional way. The processing is anything but. In 2025 Merlith and Simon built a dedicated processing lab on the farm, fitted with stainless steel production tanks, bioreactor barrels and microscopes, and this Geisha is one of the first lots to come through it. The resulting cup is vibrant and juicy, fruity yet clean, classic yet exciting. A truly excellent example of classic Geisha fermented with modern technique.