Huehuetenango Diego
Guatemala · Huehuetenango
La Bolsa is the closest thing we have to a house coffee. Every team member gets through 500 grams of it before we'll admit someone is settling in.
A coffee we
buy every year.
La Bolsa is the closest thing we have to a house coffee. Every team member gets through 500 grams of it before we'll admit someone is settling in.
It is unfashionable in a specific way: comforting, not surprising. Milk chocolate and hazelnut and a long caramel finish that stays for the second sip. If the Konga is the one you linger over, this is the one you reach for while you're answering email.
Renardo has been running La Bolsa since 2003. The milling is done in Huehuetenango town, on equipment he rebuilt himself in 2015 when the Guatemalan peso tanked and new parts became impossible to import.