Meya, filter coffee from Mexico

Meya - Coffee Info

How We Prepare the Coffee

The first roasts have left the coffee house. For recipe development, we like to let the coffee degas for at least one week—it's still too fresh at the moment. You'll find the recipe here in approximately 1-2 weeks.

Why Does the Coffee Taste the Way It Does?

It can get noticeably cool in the Sierra de Zongolica. Behind Orizaba, the first hills rise up and continue climbing until you reach the rugged valleys of the Sierra. The slopes are steep, and clouds linger visibly in them. In the sun, however, the valleys heat up. This makes coffee cultivation challenging, especially for Naturals.

The cherries are picked and fermented in plastic bags before drying on raised beds. Because it's often cool, drying takes a very long time. And because it's often humid, the risk of fungal infection increases. This requires special care.

All of this shows in the taste: The fresh, juicy acidity comes from the growing conditions, as the cool temperatures allow the cherries to ripen for a long time. The 90-hour fermentation emphasizes a fresh fruity character with a focus on red fruits, without overpowering the acidity. The silky, elegant texture comes from careful harvesting and manual sorting of the cherries.

Why Did We Buy This Coffee?

Since 2022, we've been working with Ensambles and the producers of Citlal Kafen to increase coffee quality and strengthen the cooperative. Toca is the washed cooperative blend. But the goal was always also to produce microlots.

For this, individual lots from particularly high-quality coffee cherries are separated, fermented, and dried in the cherry as Natural. This is a new process, not just for the cooperative, but for the whole region.

For long-term projects that are meant to make a real difference on the ground, it's important that they also produce coffees that are sensorially in the Champions League. This is the first lot that the young cooperative has processed this way. We're excited to see what comes next.

How We Roast This Coffee

Shipping via Coffee Letter Also Available

All our coffees can be ordered as a Coffee Letter. It's treated like a regular letter and arrives in your mailbox. This reduces postage for 250 g of coffee from CHF 7.– to CHF 2.50. At checkout, you can choose between Coffee Letter, A-Mail, and B-Mail options.