When you get into specialty coffee roasting, one of the bucket list items is to travel to a coffee growing community and see how this magic elixir is created. By luck, I was able to make the trek to Guatemala and El Salvador in January 2019. It was quite possibly the most eye-opening, fascinating, and lovely trips I have ever taken in my life. My traveling companions were Cesar from Café Río Verde and Kenny from The Pour House. I hope to express the majority of what I saw and my opinions throughout the trip over a series of posts. The first few days were about coffee; the last few were about exploring Guatemala. I hope you’ll take the time to check out all the posts…
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