Papua New Guinea Coffee: Kongo B
Our Papua New Guinea Coffee is a delightful addition to our evolving single origin coffee collection! Its chocolatey and spicey profile with flavour notes of chocolate, toffee, nutmeg and orange create a very unique flavour profile. Its winey overtones create an enticing coffee that is great to enjoy with family or friends.
Our Papua New Guinea Kongo B has been ethically sourced from high altitude Papua New Guinea coffee plantations. Romeo particularly loved this single origin as it not only has a great flavour profile, it also supports the Jerry Kapka School Project.
You will be supporting education in the local coffee growing community with every sip of this super single origin! Its 82.50 SCO cupping score makes it a speciality coffee and we are sure that it will be a favourite among coffee connoisseurs.
Coffee In Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is considered by many to be an undeveloped frontier that is dominated by tribes and a fractious political system. Instability and societal challenges are rife, yet it maintains a relatively small coffee industry that has earned a reputation for cultivating quality speciality coffee.
The origins of Papua New Guinea’s coffee production can be traced back to the 1800s, but commercial coffee production did not get underway until the 1920s. Since the start of commercial production, its coffee industry has moved in ebbs and flows, with the 1960s and 1980s being periods of growth while the 1970s and 1990s involved marked declines in production.
Today, coffee production in Papua New Guinea involves overcoming the significant challenges posed by PNG’s poor infrastructure and frequent hijackings. Some coffee producers lose up to 50% of their beans to theft. Despite this, the country’s resilience and agility has helped it to embrace sustainable practices including soil quality initiatives and farmer education.
PNG have also improved their coffee quality assurance and testing processes for wet processing. This is reflected in the quality of their coffee and the distinctive flavour profiles that it produces.
Coffee has become Papa New Guinea’s most valuable agricultural export, with around one million bags per annum being exported around the world to coffee roasters. Coffee production directly or indirectly supports around two million people in PNG, which gives it an important role in supporting the livelihoods of many.
Cultivating Papua New Guinea Coffee
After careful cultivation at an altitude of 1400-1900m above sea level, Our Papua New Guinea coffee beans are harvested between April and September ready for processing. Papua New Guinea Kongo B is wet processed and dried using either mechanical driers, raised beds or sails. The sails act as tarpaulins stretched out under the sun, which provide a great space for drying the beans.
Following the harvesting, the Papua New Guinea coffee arrives at our Hampshire roastery ready for our roastmaster, Romeo, to small batch roast it. During roasting, Romeo concentrates on drawing out its natural flavour notes, which enhances the flavour profile of the beans and stays true to its origin. The Papua New Guinea Kongo B is a great addition to our single origin coffee collection and is sure to delight many coffee lovers UK-wide.
Our Papua New Guinea Coffee
Our Papua New Guinea coffee is cultivated at a high altitude of 1400m – 1900m above sea level. This altitude provides ideal coffee growing conditions, including quality fertile soil that nurtures the coffee plants as they grow.
Its chocolatey and spicey profile with chocolate, nutmeg, orange, spice and toffee flavour notes make it a superb single origin that coffee connoisseurs can enjoy. Why not indulge in its balanced flavour notes while you enjoy a PNG adventure with every sip?
Papua New Guinea Kongo B also has exemplary ethical credentials in that it supports the Jerry Kapka School Project. This project facilitates the development and resourcing of schools throughout the Simbu province. It also provides a number of school fee scholarships which further support education within the local community.
Our Papua New Guinea coffee’s chocolatey and spicey profile is perfect for brewing an exceptional espresso but is also makes a great base for a mighty milky coffee. Whichever type of coffee you enjoy, our Papua New Guinea coffee beans are sure to delight.
Once our roastmaster Romeo has carefully small batch roasted our PNG coffee, it is packed into our beautifully designed recyclable packaging and sent directly to your door so you can enjoy great tasting speciality coffee at home.
Coffee Characteristics
- Varietal – Arusha, Bourbon, Typica
- Process – Wet
- Altitude – 1,400 meters to 1900 meters
- Harvest period – April to September
- Tasting notes – Chocolate, Nutmeg, Orange, Spices, Toffee
- Species – Coffea Arabica
- Cupping score – 82.5
