HEUTE / Everyday Espresso Blend

Hazelnut, Milk Chocolate, Cherry

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The Heute Blend is an everyday espresso, suitable to be enjoyed by everyone from the seasoned coffee professional to those seeking just a good cup of morning joe. The components of this blend change seasonally, allowing us to always use coffees that are fresh and taste good. While the coffees themselves may change, we aim to always keep the Heute Blend balanced, sweet and easy to use.

Brazil Cafeina Women’s Group - Natural - 70%

Colombia Cauca - Washed - 30%

Tasting Notes: Hazelnut, Milk Chocolate, Cherry

Cafeina Women’s Group In 2019, a group for female farmers was established within the Cocatrel Cooperative in Três Pontas, Sul de Minas, Brazil. Known as the Cafeina Women's Group, it comprises of over 1,100 women producers. The initiative aims to promote active participation by women in decision-making processes. Every two months, the group gathers to further their education, expand their knowledge, and enhance their visibility and involvement within the coffee-growing community. The group is led by Iandra Vilela, an award-winning advocate for women in coffee.
This particular coffee is a natural-process lot consisting of the Mundo Novo and Yellow Catuaí varieties. It is machine-harvested, with the beans sorted by grade before being dried on patios for 7–10 days. After drying, the coffee rests for 30 days, then is hulled and delivered to the cooperative. Sourced through our long-standing import partners at Falcon, this coffee forms the foundation of our espresso blend, contributing rich nutty and milk chocolate notes. 

Cauca is one of Colombia's most biodiverse and culturally rich departments, and historically one of its most conflict-affected. Its strategic position between the Andes and the Pacific made it a contested corridor for guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and drug trafficking networks for decades. As poverty deepened and state presence remained thin, many rural families had little choice but to grow coca. 

The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army) formally ended a 53-year armed conflict, but did not end the pressures on Cauca's communities. Armed groups continued operating after demobilisation. Some reformed, some newly formed, and they continued competing for territorial control over illicit economies.

In 2023, Cauca recorded the highest number of violent incidents of any Colombian department, 60% of coffee farmers live in socioeconomic vulnerability, and 37% live in extreme poverty. The economics of illegal crops remain an alternative for farming families without reliable market access. In that environment, a stable, well-paid coffee harvest is an economic mechanism capable of competing with illegal crop economies. Coffee, in this context, is not a neutral crop. It is a deliberate economic choice by communities who are building livelihoods that illegal economies cannot easily displace. 

Café Costal sources coffee produced by approximately 800 producers across El Tambo, Timbío, and El Plateado. They form a mix of farming families and indigenous communities operating in municipalities that have been among the hardest hit by the conflict. These are not all communities in transition to coffee, many have grown it across generations. What has changed is access: to fair prices, to technical support, and to buyers who understand what it means to source here. Farmers without direct commercial channels are typically paid 20-30% below the reference price by intermediaries. Café Costal pays above the reference price and works with communities to connect them with the resources they need to develop, including technical, social, and environmental assistance. Most regional coffees will tell you where they come from. Few can tell you what buying them actually changes.