{"title":"Bolivia","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRoasting Guide\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"categoryextrafield\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTry roasting it at verge of 2nd cracks.If too bright, try a little bit darker.Expect some nice grains, mild fruit, and overall pleasant \u003cspan class=\"SpellE\"\u003emouthfeel\u003c\/span\u003e with a clean aftertaste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eManual\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"categoryextrafield\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an exception to South American coffee and actually does make nice drip coffee.The government and the farmers are hard to work with, and the overall crop is fairly small, which means you do not run into it regularly; but it is worth trying when you have the chance.Fair Trade Organic co-ops are the best bet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bolivia-caranavi","title":"Bolivia Caranavi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a certified organic Bolivia Co-Op coffee from a co-op of 19 farms, called the Aljira co-op near the highest altitude of Caranavi. On the map, you'll find Bolivia landlocked between Peru and Brazil. This can make it hard to export as passage to port requires co-operation of a competing country. Bolivian farmers also have a reputation of being \"hard to work with.\" So a good Bolivia doesn't come on market all that often, and I snatched this one up excitedly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a washed process coffee, and you can roast it light like a Costa Rica or Honduras to get some floral notes, tangerine, and nuts. If you roast it just into 2nd cracks, you get more of a cocoa and cashew taste with just a hint of citrus, but don't take it any darker than that or it starts picking up a charcoal aftertaste. A Guatemala roasting profile seems to work pretty well for us. It's also excellent as espresso at this roast level.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is grown at high altitude (4,000-5,000 feet) in the Caranavi region. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUS Arrival May 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":19630886322264,"sku":null,"price":6.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/products\/IMG20230408112453.jpg?v=1738611892"},{"product_id":"bolivia-fecafeb","title":"Bolivia FECAFEB","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a certified fair trade organic Bolivia Co-Op coffee with sweet, clean flavor. On the map, you'll find Bolivia landlocked between Peru and Brazil. This can make it hard to export as passage to port requires co-operation of a competing country. Bolivian farmers also have a reputation of being \"hard to work with.\" So a good Bolivia doesn't come on market all that often, and I snatched this one up excitedly. It's fresh 2014-2015 crop, just came in December 2014. This is from the FECAFEB co-op, which is the \u003cspan\u003eFederation of Coffee Exporting Producers of Bolivia, one of the largest FTO co-ops. The beans themselves are very high quality with very few defects. The beans are uniformly sized, and are reasonably large, roughly a 15-16 screen size. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompared to the other South American coffees, Bolivia is most closely comparable to a Peru. In the lighter City and City + roasts, you will get a coffee that is boring and normal, but altogether pleasant. It is smooth and has a clean finish. Nice body, nice aroma. Use your imagination and say there's a taste of honey in there. I drank the whole pot of it before I could help myself...but overall, it's just not memorable. It would make a great coffee to flavor, because there's nothing here that's going to compete with the taste of the flavorings. At the second cracks, it starts to get a little bite at the finish -- I suppose if you use your imagination you'd call it bakers cocoa. It's still smooth and oh-so-drinkable, but just ever so slightly bitter with a cocoa taste at the end, and once I brewed it up, I thought, \"yes, this is the right profile for this coffee.\" But then I tried 30 seconds into the 2nd cracks, and this was more interesting yet. Now it had some real character to it, a nice full body, with traditional flavor, and that great cocoa bite at the end was getting better and better, and I was really happy with this roast. And then I took it 60+ seconds into the 2nd cracks into French Roast territory, and it held up fantastic, was a great French Roast and made AWESOME single origin espresso. We were drinking espressos and macchiatos all afternoon and didn't sleep all night, but we couldn't wait to get back to the shop and have more of it.... So all this to say -- if you like light roasts, roast it light. If you like medium roasts, roast it medium. And if you like dark roasts or espressos, take it dark. I almost never say this, but this Bolivian really is a one-size-fit-all kind of coffee bean. There's not any one sweet spot for this bean, but if I did have to pick one, I'd recommend trying it 20-30 seconds past the first snaps of the 2nd cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":19630888255576,"sku":null,"price":4.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/products\/full-logo-newlogo_fa960acb-c238-4a7b-9fab-114c468da53e.jpg?v=1738611859"},{"product_id":"bolivia-bio-arabica","title":"Bolivia Bio Arabica","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a certified fair trade organic Bolivia Co-Op coffee. The small co-op of 18 families calls themselves Bio Arabica and grows coffee in Western Bolivia, over by Peru. This is known as the Yungus region and has a rainy climate on the slopes of the Andes Mountains. The co-op is half men and half women and is a part of the Women's Coffee of Bolivia organization (CFB). They work together to plant new varietals, test new coffees and eventually blend all of their coffees together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBolivia coffee has been harder to source as a lot of farmers in the past few years have torn up their coffee bushes and planted cocaine in its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompared to the other South American coffees, Bolivia is most closely comparable to a Peru. My favorite roast is just barely into 2nd cracks. At this medium roast level you taste milk chocolate and salted nuts. It is smooth, mellow, full bodied, and sweet. The sort of coffee that you can mindlessly sip at. If you go 20 seconds into 2nd cracks, it is perfect for espresso. Very nutty and creamy and chocolaty. Darker than that is not recommended as it does start to become bitter and burnt. Lighter than 2nd cracks is also not recommended as it has a tartness which I would describe as tasting under roasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beans are nicely sorted and roast and taste the way you would expect for a Bolivia coffee. If you have enjoyed Bolivian coffee in the past, this one will not disappoint you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUS Arrival Jan 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":19630899658840,"sku":null,"price":5.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/products\/IMG_0333.jpg?v=1738611706"},{"product_id":"bolivia-las-paz-java","title":"Bolivia Las Paz Java","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an unusual organic Bolivia Estate coffee that has decided to differentiate themselves by growing a coffee that was brought over from Indonesia (commonly known as Java varietal) and their coffee doesn't taste like a Bolivian coffee. You can roast it medium or dark, and it does have some earthy, rooty, spicy notes, but also has some smooth cocoa nutty notes. It's a cross between an Indonesian and South American coffee, and I don't know what else to compare it to. It's really in its own category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the map, you'll find Bolivia landlocked between Peru and Brazil. This can make it hard to export as passage to port requires co-operation of a competing country. Bolivian farmers also have a reputation of being \"hard to work with.\" So a microlot Bolivia doesn't come on market all that often, and I snatched this one up excitedly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e95% of Bolivia coffee comes out of the Yungas region (often Caranavi), but this one is from Las Paz which is in a ridiculously hard to source region way up in the Andes Mountains. It's hard to describe the mouthfeel, but that's my favorite part of this coffee. Its just inherently satisfying as you drink it.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI like roasting it about 5 seconds into the second cracks, but there's a pretty wide margin of roasting it lighter or darker than that where you have a really interesting mug of coffee. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUS Arrival May 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50955396350239,"sku":null,"price":8.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/files\/PXL_20240721_183619019.jpg?v=1740674949"},{"product_id":"bolivia-las-paz-single-producer","title":"Bolivia Selva Verde","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a certified fair trade organic bird-friendly Bolivia Co-Op coffee with sweet, clean flavor. On the map, you'll find Bolivia landlocked between Peru and Brazil. This can make it hard to export as passage to port requires co-operation of a competing country. Bolivian farmers also have a reputation of being \"hard to work with.\" So a good Bolivia doesn't come on market all that often, and I snatched this one up excitedly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Avircata grows coffee in the Yungas region (Caranavi).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has a lot of complexity. There's some savory notes, almost vegetal like bell pepper even at medium roasts, but also molasses and nutty and juicy. It also works well as espresso and cold brew. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUS Arrival May 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50996479361311,"sku":null,"price":7.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/files\/PXL_20240721_183619019.jpg?v=1740674949"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/collections\/bolivia.jpg?v=1647829812","url":"https:\/\/happymugcoffee.mom\/collections\/bolivia.oembed","provider":"Happy Mug","version":"1.0","type":"link"}