Celebration 2024 12oz bag

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“To old friends and new beginnings.” Since Highwire’s founding in 2011, we’ve crafted a special coffee blend each year to celebrate the holiday season. This year’s Celebration blend brings together three remarkable coffees from Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Kenya. The blend is a tribute to the connections Highwire has cultivated and our dedication to quality coffee—a true seasonal offering that honors our commitment to community and craft. Together, these three coffees create a deeply pleasurable cup that suits the season.

The primary component can be found in many of our blends at the moment, a washed coffee from Finca El Paraiso. This will be the second year in a row that we are working with coffee from third-generation producer Urisar Fernaldy de Leon. El Paraiso brings much of the heft to Celebration, with a bodied sweetness and ripe cherry acidity, this coffee is a crowd pleaser at almost any roast level.

To this we added a returning favorite from Costa Rica, a coffee from producers belonging to the Coopedota cooperative in the town of Santa Maria de Dota, in that country's celebrated Tarrazú region.  Bringing a mild, yellow-fruit sweetness to the cup, the Santa Maria de Dota holds the middle ground of Celebration 2024s flavor palette.

Finally, we're debuting a coffee from a new relationship to Highwire, coffee from Peter Munya's Thangatha estate in Kenya's Meru County.  Thanks in part to a relationship with Undugu Farms, Highwire travelled to Kenya earlier this year to visit this under appreciated coffee growing region and to connect with several estate producers there.  This coffee represents our first direct sourcing opportunity in Kenya, which made it a fitting element to this year's Celebration.  Munya's coffee brings a candied citrus element to the blend, elevating the sweetness of the other components.

We're roasting this ever-so-slightly darker than The Core, but lighter than the Shadow Play, leaning into the hearty sweetness and body of the El Paraiso, but still making room for the caramel notes from the Santa Maria de Dota and the baked fruit notes from Peter Munya's Thangatha Estate. This coffee has fruitcake vibes in the best way possible.

Celebration 2024 will satisfy folks around the holiday dinner table while still having enough of a pedigree to appease the coffee elitist.  We recommend enjoying Celebration with friends and family, chosen or otherwise.