Simbu Highlands

PNG is blessed with some of the world’s best coffee growing conditions. High altitude, tropical forests and traditional farming methods result in this delight, grown by tenacious smallholder farmers in the remote and rugged PNG highlands around Mt Elimbari. We source this delicious all-rounder through Kongo Coffee, an indigenous mill, ensuring supply chain transparency throughout. Totally heavenly .

These PNG beans are packed with yummy milk chocolate, sweet maple syrup, plum and red apple notes .

espresso -based beverage. We also love brewing this PNG coffee for

The extraction time tells you if the water has enough time to extract all the tasty goodness in the coffee. Adjusting your grind size will help you to achieve the suggested time in our recipe. You want to grind finer if you extract a yield in a shorter time. And grind coarser if you achieve the yield in a longer time than suggested.

Want to learn more how to extract a tasty espresso? Join us for fun and hands-on coffee courses at our roastery.

This super delicious coffee from PNG originates from smallholder farmers in the Simbu province located in the rugged Highlands, home to traditional tribes living in remote villages without access to electricity, where schools and medical services can only be reached by foot – many hours away. Most of Simbu’s population depends on subsistence farming, and coffee plays a vital role as it is usually the only cash crop for families.

The Simbu Highlands produce some of the finest smallholder coffee Papua New Guinea has to offer. Typically, families have planted their land with fresh coffee, growing between 5 to 15 bags of coffee cherries annually. Harvesting season is between May and August when the coffee cherries are picked. Most smallholder growers process their cherries to parchment coffee before selling it to the local mill for hulling, screening and exporting.

Smallholder farmers of the Simbu Highlands sell their parchment coffee to Kongo Coffee, an indigenously owned coffee supplier out of Papua New Guinea. Located in a valley surrounded by majestic mountain vistas, including the renowned Mt Elimbari, Kongo Coffees dry mill facilities are well-established, ensuring the quality of the PNG coffee. In a country with little infrastructure and remote villages, not an easy task.

Kongo coffee then dries, hulls, sorts and packs these coffees for export.

Playing fair is an action term. We work hard to give our talented smallholder coffee farmers, women coffee growers and independent family farms a fairer share of a cup of coffee. For us, this means buying coffee at fair and ethical prices .

This helps our coffee farmers to keep growing those tasty beans we love to roast and you love to drink. This is good for the farmer, and it is good for you.