San Lucas - Filter Coffee from Mexico

San Lucas - Coffee Info

How We Prepare This Coffee

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

Why Does This Coffee Taste the Way It Does?

In the remote, difficult-to-access mountains of the Sierra de Flores Magón, this special coffee is created. Producers from two Mazatec communities combine their coffees into this "San Lucas" lot. Coffee from the Sierra Flores de Magón region is among Mexico's late bloomers, because here, in one of Mexico's highest and coolest regions, the harvest doesn't begin until March. Then, when the harvest is already over in other regions.

The coffee displays a full body with a soft texture. The acidity is crystal clear and reminds us of East African coffees. The soft texture is the result of high and uniform ripeness of the coffee cherries. The uniformity comes from precise, manual selection of the cherries. The high acidity is linked to local growing conditions: the coffee grows very slowly at altitude in a microclimate with large differences between day and night temperatures. The slow growth creates a pronounced, juicy-fresh acidity.

Why Did We Purchase This Coffee?

San Lucas grows in the Sierra under challenging conditions. The cool climate slows down drying, and the beans stay moist for a long time. Yet this is exactly where the collaboration with Ensambles comes in: Since 2021, a storage and lab hub in Huautla de Jiménez supports producers with training in sustainable agriculture and quality control. They receive transparent feedback and a long-term perspective.

The coffee grows in traditional intercropping – together with fruit trees and timber trees. The so-called Milpa farming method not only follows ecological principles, but is deeply rooted in indigenous worldview: a balance of giving and taking in harmony with nature.

How We Roast This Coffee

As a 12.5kg batch on our 30kg Giesen roaster. In just under 9 minutes with a development time of 1 minute, we finish roasting the coffee. The end temperature is a tick higher, so we can emphasize the sweetness in the coffee even more.

Shipping Also Available via Coffee Letter

All our coffees can be ordered in the form of a coffee letter. It is treated like a regular letter and arrives in your mailbox. This reduces the postage for 250g coffee from 7 to 2 francs. At checkout, you can choose between the options Coffee Letter, A-Post, and B-Post.