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History
Popular legend attributes coffee's discovery to an Arabian goatherd whose hoofed charges, after munching on a red-berried plant, were gripped by an ecstatic energy; modern historians, however, are largely convinced by recent evidence of Coffea Arabica's Central Ethiopian origin and subsequent export to and cultivation in sixth century Yemen. Although centuries-old coffeehouses in Cairo and Mecca will attest to coffee's longevity and its universal appeal, the boundless creativity and scientific innovation of brewers has brought coffee craftsmanship to levels of specialization unfathomable to our ancestral counterparts.
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Cultivation
A spectrum of possibilities and subtleties emerges at every stage of coffee development. The coffee bean, of course, is the foundation of a coffee's identity; as transplantation has enabled coffee cultivation to expand beyond indigenous locations to regions worldwide, the beans themselves have become as distinctive as the countries that produce them. Of the two commercially available types of coffee tree, Arabica and Robusta, Mayorga Coffee works exclusively with the former; all coffee trees, however, must grow at high altitudes (generally a minimum of 4000 feet above sea level), and the tremendous variation in climate, topography, and soil content available at such altitudes yields a correspondingly vast range of bean personalities and flavors. At Mayorga Coffee, we comb the globe and personally select those coffees, many of which are shade grown, that are nurtured through sustainable farming practices, that are best expressed through the personal attention of our small-batch roasting process, and that most accurately reflect such rich global color.
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