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Papua New Guinea Coffee

The arabica plant didn’t arrive in Papua New Guinea until the 1920s – in the form of the legendary Jamaican Blue Mountain bean – after which point the country’s commercial output ratcheted up. But infrastructure remained stubbornly basic across the land, while PNG’s highlands – where the coffee magic really happens today – didn’t experience any known outsider contact at all until the 1930s.

Unsurprising, then, that PNG’s coffee is produced primarily by smallholders. So what to expect if you buy Papua New Guinea coffee beans? With PNG’s tribal politics and hundreds upon hundreds of native languages, a standard profile is evasive: the end-product possibilities are as teeming as the rainforest. That’s partly why we’ve partnered with the Highland Organic Agriculture Cooperative (HOAC), a collective of some 3000 smallholder producers scattered across 32 highland villages.

HOAC are relatively old hands, operating since the early 2000s, and the cooperative has invested profits wisely in that time. They’ve supported their communities – not least in the form of better fresh water provision, which has the added benefit of allowing coffee producers to wash their beans.

Diving into the dry-processed versus washed debate is one of coffee geekery’s great joys, with washed coffee advocates believing that washing beans brings more consistent results. That’s a debate for another day, but try jute Papua New Guinea coffee beans – 100% arabica and hand-roasted in Northamptonshire – and you can bank on gorgeous notes of peach, blackberry and cherry – every single time. When you come to brew it, we think this smooth and balanced single origin is as delicious as a long black as it is with milk.