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Guatemala Kape'tenango H1 — supplied coffee image 1
Guatemala Kape'tenango H1 — supplied coffee image 2
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Guatemala Kape'tenango H1; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Guatemala Kape'tenango H1; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇬🇹Guatemala · Huehuetenango

Guatemala Kape'tenango H1

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsGuatemalaHuehuetenangoCentroamericano (H1)WashedOrangeArabicaSingle originKape'tenangoMauricio RosalesIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇬🇹GuatemalaWashedCentroamericano (H1)
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Region
Huehuetenango
Town
—
Farm / Station
Kape'tenango
Farmer / Producer
Mauricio Rosales
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Centroamericano (H1)
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
blood orange, tamarind, juniper
Fermentation
—
Drying
Sun-dried on raised beds
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mOnly a 1,600–1,850 m range is documented; the numeric schema cannot store a range without inventing a midpoint.
  • fermentationThe roaster identifies washed processing but does not publish fermentation duration or protocol.
  • roast levelThird-party catalogs disagree, and no current exact roaster listing verifies a conventional roast-level label.
  • brew recommendationThe exact product URL now returns 404, so the previously captured roaster recipe is retained only as historical guidance.
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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
    Guatemala Kape'tenango H1
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Centroamericano (H1)
  5. 05
    The farm
    Kape'tenango
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Mauricio Rosales
  7. 07
    The region
    Huehuetenango
  8. 08
    The country
    🇬🇹Guatemala
From the producer

Mauricio Rosales established La Maravilla with his father in 1997 and later developed Kape’tenango within it as a dedicated area for experimenting with new varieties and techniques. Intelligentsia has worked with the family through Direct Trade since 2003.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia is a Chicago-based coffee roaster recognized as a pioneer of the third-wave coffee movement in the United States.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A small experimental harvest of Centroamericano/H1, an F1 hybrid combining rust-resistant T5296 with the Ethiopian landrace Rume Sudan. This record now connects the exact H1 identity rather than leaving the variety untagged.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Washed processing

The roaster identifies the lot as washed; coffee fruit is removed and water is inherent to that method.

02
Raised-bed drying

The parchment coffee is documented as sun-dried on raised beds.

What was added?

Water is inherent to washed processing. No other processing input is documented.

What wasn't added?

Fruit, flavorings or inoculated cultures are not documented; their absence is not inferred.

Why it matters

The disclosed method supports a traditional washed classification, while the missing fermentation details limit stronger processing claims.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia listed blood orange, tamarind and juniper; these are roaster notes rather than our observations.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://wholesale.intelligentsiacoffee.com/10oz_Guatemala_Kapetenango_H1
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/guatemala-kapetenango-h1
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 farm: Kape'tenango →Meet the farmer: Mauricio Rosales →
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