BlackGold Coffee Company, LLC.  

BlackGold Coffee Company

                                                             Organic Guatemala SHB EP Estate Antigua  -   Los Volcanes

                                                                                Fair Trade - Shade Grown

The 'Gran Cru' coffee of Guatemala.  This coffee offers an unique blend of acidity, deep rich taste and a well balanced aftertaste.     This coffee is popular in Europe where it is often used in espresso blends. Guatemala Antigua has wonderful rich aroma.   Coffee drinkers who love rich tasting coffee will love this coffee.  It even taste good with milk!

                                                                       Organic Certification:USDA NOP-Steller Certification Services, Inc.                                          

                                                                       Shade Grown Certification: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center                                                                                                                               

                                        Recommend Roast: Bold               Aroma: Pleasant                     Flavor: Smooth 

                                       Appearance: Sparkling                    Body: Rich                            Fragrance: Rich 

  Coffee drinkers who drink this coffee may enjoy: Columbia Vintage Supremo      Tanzania Peaberry

                                                                                                               Indonesia Sumatra                   Guatemala SHB EP Estate Antigua

Organic Guatemala coffee is grown using methods and materials that have a low impact on the environment. Organic production systems replenish and maintain soil fertility, reduce the use of toxic and persistent pesticides and fertilizers, and build biologically diverse agriculture.

This type of agriculture stimulates the environment’s natural development of disease and pest control  because the organic coffee is shade grown, large amounts of forest are be preserved.  This preservation has many additional benefits: minimizing soil erosion, preserving habitat, especially for birds, further, the leaves from the trees and bird droppings naturally fertilize the soil. Birds also control pests by eating insects that eat the leaves of coffee plants.

Organic coffee is produced under strict certification guidelines, and is grown without the use of potentially harmful artificial pesticides or fertilizers;

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Certification: All farms are subject to an independent, third-party inspection to determine whether a farm meets these criteria or not. In addition, all farms must meet organic certification standards to be eligible to be certified as "Bird Friendly®".

"Bird Friendly®" coffees are the only coffees on the market that are certified as 100% shade-grown and organic, meaning that they are grown without the use of chemical pesticides that poison the environment.