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Franco Huaches Geisha

Franco Huaches Geisha

Tasting Notes: Peach | Jasmine | Milk Chocolate
Perfect For: A clean, delicate washed coffee perfect for filter brewing
All our coffees are roasted to work beautifully for all brewing methods, however some are especially well-suited to a particular brewing method.
Roast: Light
Origin: Peru
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Roasted In Sussex

Our roastery is in Burgess Hill, West Sussex and all our coffee is roasted on our Loring Roaster.

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Brew Recipe

This coffee works well for all brew methods. 

Filter: Dose 15g-16g, water 250g. 
Espresso: Dose 18 gram to 40-42 gram yield over about 30 seconds. 

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  • About Franco Huaches Geisha | Peru

    When rust devastated Franco's plantation in 1916, he made a bold call: introduce the Geisha variety on the advice of an agricultural engineer. It proved transformative. La Lúcuma has since earned recognition across regional and national competitions, and this Geisha Inca — grown at 1,850–1,900 masl in the highlands of San Ignacio — stands as the clearest expression of what that decision made possible.

    Harvesting is meticulous. Pickers are trained to select only fully ripe cherries, with a strict daily limit of 3 cans per harvester to prevent unripe or overripe fruit from making the cut. Cherries are pulped and dry-fermented in sealed tanks for 36 hours — building natural sweetness and complexity — before a thorough wash removes all remaining mucilage. The beans are then dried on parabolic beds in uniform layers, turned continuously to ensure even dehydration, and rested on wooden pallets until moisture settles at 11–12%.

    This is a stunning high cup score washed Geisha scoring 88 points. Tasting notes are complex and include peach, jasmine and milk chocolate.

  • Coffee Info

    Tasting Notes: Peach | Jasmine | Milk Chocolate
    Processing Method: 36 hour fermented washed
    Varietal: Geisha
    Importer: Chacra

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The Producer

Franco Huaches

Franco Huaches produces stunning high-cup-score coffees on his farm located in El Limón, Chirinos. His farm is at high altitude, about 1800m and benefits from fantastic soil and the ideal microclimate to grow Geisha.

Coffee Origin

Peru 🇵🇪

Peruvian coffee has amazing flavour diversity and the altitude and processing tends to dictate the types of flavours on offer. Discover more about its history, processing methods and flavours on our Peru coffee guide.

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Processing Method

Extended Ferment Washed

The extended ferment-washed process is an evolution of the traditional method that prolongs the fermentation stage. By extending contact time between the bean and fruit sugars, producers develop deeper complexity and sweetness while retaining the signature clarity of a washed cup.

Coffee Varietal

Geisha

Perhaps no varietal has captured the specialty coffee world's imagination quite like Geisha. Originally collected from the forests of Ethiopia near the town of Gori Gesha, it was brought to Central America via various research stations before gaining global fame at the 2004 Best of Panama competition. Its cup profile is utterly distinctive – ethereal jasmine and floral aromas, delicate stone fruit, bergamot, and a tea-like body that seems to defy what coffee can be. It remains one of the most sought-after and expensive coffees in the world.

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