Day 3: Travel to Nebaj A late start to the day… we were still recovering from the long day in El Salvador yesterday. After breakfast we headed out towards Nebaj, Quiche on the way to visit the Ixil growers. Us here in the US are spoiled by our road system. Once we were off the […]
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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