Visiting a Puerto Rico Coffee Farm
Where the farms actually are, what a fare covers, whether you need a car, and the three things people get wrong before they book.
Short answers to the questions that come up once you have decided to give a day to coffee: how to reach a farm, what happens on it, what the island's crop has been through, and whether the mountains or the old city suit your trip better.
Where the farms actually are, what a fare covers, whether you need a car, and the three things people get wrong before they book.
Nursery, picking rows, pulper, fermentation tank, drying deck, roaster, tasting table — and what happens at each one.
Sixth in the world in the 1890s, fifteen thousand quintals a year to the Vatican, and four fifths of the trees gone in a single night in 2017.
Which farm is built for children, which drive is too long, and the one that is chocolate from the first minute to the last.
Two hours of cobblestones and two cups, or a whole day in the mountains. The real trade is the drive, not the price.
Every post below points at real departures. See them all on Puerto Rico Coffee Tours.