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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for San Miguel, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for San Miguel; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for San Miguel; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for San Miguel; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇬🇹Guatemala · San Marcos

San Miguel

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsGuatemalaSan MarcosCaturraBourbonCatuaíWashedLight roastMilk ChocolateAlmondArabicaSingle originAsociación de Caficultores Miguelenses (ACMI)Counter Culture CoffeeIndependent
🇬🇹GuatemalaWashedLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Region
San Marcos
Town
San Miguel Ixtahuacán
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Asociación de Caficultores Miguelenses (ACMI)
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Caturra, Bourbon, and Catuaí
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
milk chocolate, almond, sweet
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm idSan Miguel is a multi-farm ACMI community lot; individual contributing farms are not published.
  • variety idThe lot combines Caturra, Bourbon, and Catuaí, so no single variety relationship accurately represents it.
  • altitude mThe source gives a 1,600–2,100 m range; a single point value would be misleading.
  • fermentationThe release is identified as washed, but fermentation duration and washing sequence are not published.
  • drying methodThe exact release’s drying surface and duration are not disclosed.
  • roast dateRoast date is bag-specific and unavailable for this sold-out release.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    San Miguel
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Caturra, Bourbon, and Catuaí
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Asociación de Caficultores Miguelenses (ACMI)
  7. 07
    The region
    San Marcos
  8. 08
    The country
    🇬🇹Guatemala
From the producer

The Asociación de Caficultores Miguelenses is a farmer-run organization of more than 450 members in San Miguel Ixtahuacán. It supports organic transition, agronomy and shared infrastructure for specialty-market access.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster that prioritizes long-term partnerships, sustainability, and transparency in their sourcing model.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

San Miguel links more than 450 member farms to a farmer-run organization that uses coffee as an economic and environmental alternative in a region affected by mining.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Entity correction

Removed ACMI from the coffee’s farm field and kept it as the producer group.

02
Release facts

Added washed process, light roast, variety mix, range and harvest dates.

03
Contradiction handling

Ignored the product page’s conflicting legacy availability date and used its current out-of-stock state.

What was added?

San Marcos, washed processing, light roast, exact variety mix, altitude range, harvest window and updated cooperative context.

What wasn't added?

No farm relationship was retained because ACMI is a producer organization, not one farm. No scalar altitude, price or public sentiment score was added.

Why it matters

The prior record treated the cooperative as a single farm, omitted the documented process and varieties, and incorrectly labeled the roast as dark.

What you might taste

Counter Culture publishes milk chocolate, almond and sweetness.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/san-miguel
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

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 farmer: Asociación de Caficultores Miguelenses (ACMI) →
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