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🇬🇹Guatemala · Santa Rosa

Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club

TRADITIONAL PROCESSOur reviewPurchased by us
TagsGuatemalaSanta RosanullWashedLight roastBrown SugarOrangeArabicaSingle originFinca ArbeliaNot statedAtlas Coffee ClubIndependentOur review

A warm, candy-sweet Guatemalan light roast: brown sugar and fudge up front, cola spice through the middle, and a bright citrus peel finish that keeps it lively. An easy, reliable cup that makes the case for light-roasting a classic washed Central American.

Our rating
4.7 out of Five Stars
4.7/5 on our star rating scale
🇬🇹GuatemalaWashedLight roast
Brand
Atlas Coffee Club
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Region
Santa Rosa
Town
Antigua
Farm / Station
Finca Arbelia
Farmer / Producer
Not stated
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
null
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Cola, Brown Sugar, Orange Peel
Fermentation
Not stated on the bag; washed processing.
Drying
Not stated on the bag.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
Oct 25, 2026
Editorial disclosure: Purchased by us
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

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  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club
  2. 02
    The brand
    Atlas Coffee Club
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Not disclosed
  4. 04
    The variety
    null
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Arbelia
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Not stated
  7. 07
    The region
    Santa Rosa
  8. 08
    The country
    🇬🇹Guatemala
From the producer

Finca Arbelia is the identified farm source for this specific Guatemala release from Atlas Coffee Club.

From the roaster

Atlas Coffee Club is a subscription-based roaster that sources and features various single origin coffees from around the world.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This coffee is a single origin offering from Finca Arbelia, featured as part of the Atlas Coffee Club's curated selection of international coffees.

Our review

The full tasting

The first sip

Finca Arbelia leads with sweetness. The first sip is warm brown sugar and fudge, the kind of deep, caramel-toned sweetness you expect from a Guatemalan lot, but the light roast keeps it from ever turning heavy. A smooth creaminess carries the mid-palate, and the finish snaps to life with a bright citrus peel note. It is a friendly cup that still has something to say.

What we tasted

The bag promises cola, brown sugar, and orange peel, and the cup delivers all three in a surprisingly coherent way. The cola is the most interesting thread: a spiced, vanilla-toned effervescence that runs through the middle of the palate and keeps each sip lively. The brown sugar and fudge base is rich without weight, the orange peel brightens the finish, and a subtle hint of caramel rounds out the close. The body is creamy and the sweetness lingers well past the last sip.

The story in the bag

Atlas documents its bags with collectible postcards, and this one reads like a travel brief. Finca Arbelia sits in the Santa Rosa department of southeastern Guatemala, grown at about 1,200 meters in the mineral-rich volcanic soils the country is famous for, and fully washed. The card adds useful context: coffee arrived in Guatemala centuries ago as an ornamental plant, and the modern industry rebuilt after decades of upheaval. Today Guatemala produces some of the world's highest percentage of high-grade coffee, and 98% of it is shade-grown.

Who this is for

This is the coffee to hand someone who thinks light roasts are all lemon and tea. It has the comfort-food sweetness of a classic Guatemalan cup with just enough citrus and cola spice to stay interesting. We scored it 94, 4.7 stars, for a cup that lost points only on a slightly muted aromatics and a finish that fades a touch quicker than the sweetness suggests it should.

How we'd brew it

Brew it as a pour over at a medium grind, 1 to 16 ratio with water just off the boil, and expect the cola note to be most pronounced in the second and third sips. It also held up beautifully with a slightly longer immersion steep, which deepened the fudge notes.

Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club — supplied coffee image 1
Bag — front
Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club — supplied coffee image 2
Bag — back
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Guatemala — Atlas Coffee Club; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Our star ratings
Aroma
4.5
Flavor
5.0
Balance
4.5
Body & Mouthfeel
4.5
Finish
4.5
Overall
4.7
The final rating
Average of all six criteria
4.6/ 5
The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Arbelia →Meet the farmer: Not stated →
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