SWERL - Los Magnifícos Sidra | Colombia - Washed - Sidra

SWERL COFFEE ROASTERS is located in Falkenberg, Sweden

From SWERL

We source this lot through our partners at Semilla and Monkaaba, and as always the way they work simply makes sense, serving a true purpose while also ensuring incredibly high quality. 

This lot is designed to ensure that small lots of higher-quality coffee are still able to be purchased despite their size. The vast majority of the producers involved in this blend manage very small plots, and as a result, are often delivering tiny amounts of coffee.

In the instance that they have more land, this allows Semilla to take small amounts that might come from a single pass and avoid waiting for a lot of size to be delivered from a single producer, in which time the quality might suffer. 

It’s a sad reality still of the global coffee system - and especially in a massive producing state like Huila - that the logistics and management around small lots are too costly or time-consuming to make economic sense for buyers. As a result, it’s not only that the quality must be high, it’s that a smallholder must have the requisite quantity as well to earn the higher prices they deserve.

Los Magnificos seeks to serve the purpose of opening opportunities and giving smallholders a steady ground to build from as they make the challenging steps of improving their post-harvest processing practices.  Even in small amounts, the revenue earned makes a difference, but more importantly, it opens a place for community, dialogue, and learning that is normally not offered to such smallholders. The result is often a holding pattern where buyers can benefit, and smallholders are motivated or incentivized to improve and grow.