Mercanta The Coffee Hunters

Specialty Coffee Merchants

Mercanta The Coffee Hunters was founded in 1996. We source an extensive and varied selection of fine green coffees from producers in almost 20 countries for delivery to specialty roasters in more than 30 countries worldwide.

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This year for the first time we have brought in some ‘cascara’ - or dried coffee cherry - to our UK warehouse along with our other lots from Bolivia. We have been having fun experimenting with various brewing methods in our London lab and we’d love to hear from anyone who has come up with their own recipe.

Stephen Cornford took his first steps into the world of speciality coffee with Mercanta back in August, when he approached us for work experience. He has since been taken on as a permanent member of the Mercanta team and now works alongside Oli in our lab, where he assists with roasting, sample dispatch, cupping and many other lab-related activ...

It’s less than week to go until the big day and the Mercanta team is feeling festive! We’d like to wish all of our customers, partners, growers, friends and supporters a very merry Christmas and all the best for 2012..

We have just been sent some photos of the damage caused in Guatemala by weeks of heavy rain, as a series of tropical storms batter Central America. Meanwhile El Salvador is forecasting losses of between 7 and 20% of its national coffee production in 2011/12.

More than a million people have been affected by devastating tropical storms in Central America and Mexico in recent weeks. Over twelve days of torrential rain have caused landslides and serious floods, with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua hit particularly hard. Needless to say many coffee producers have been affected - damage ca...

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Latest Arrivals

Fully Washed and dried in Mechanical drier (Guardiola)
Caturra Típica
Finca Valentín
Bolivia
European
Fully Washed and dried on screens
Caturra Típica
Bolivia
European
Pulped Natural
Catuaí
Fazenda Tapera pulped natural
Brazil
North American
Natural and dried on patio
Catuaí Mundo Novo
Fazenda Sol do Paraguassu
Brazil
North American
Pulped Natural and dried on patio
Catuaí Catucaí Topázio
Fazenda Progresso
Brazil
European
North American
Pulped Natural
Bourbon Catuaí
Fazenda São Judas Tadeu
Brazil
North American
Fully Washed and dried on patio
Caturra Típica
Finca Juan Quispe
Bolivia
North American
Fully Washed and dried on patio
Caturra Catuaí
Finca Miranda and various neighbouring farms
Bolivia
North American
Fully Washed and dried on screens
Caturra Catimor Típica
‘Aprocafes’ association - Various smallholder farmers
Peru
European
North American
Fully Washed and dried on patio
Típica
Various smallholder farmers
Peru
European
North American
Fully Washed and dried on patio
Bourbon Colombia
A community of 40 families who live in the Páez Reserve in Meta
Colombia
North American
Fully Washed and dried on patio
Caturra Castilla Típica
APROCAVI growers’ association Viotá (Asociación de productores de cafés especiales de Viotá)
Colombia
North American

Upcoming Events

Specialty Coffee Association of America 24th Annual Exposition
18-19 April 2012
Oregon Convention Centre, Portland, Oregon

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