Region: El Salvador/Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range
Farm/Mill/Coop: Finca Las Brisas
Altitude: 1300-1600
Variety: Pacas
Process: Natural Anaerobic
Certifications:
Carlos Pola comes from a family of coffee farmers. He purchased Finca Las Brisas in 1997 while he was working in the textile industry. By 2012, he switched to working in coffee full time. His vision is to produce sustainable specialty coffee by applying his textile industry experience in quality control, efficiency and data management to coffee production on Finca Las Brisas.
The farm has its own lab for experimenting with new processing methods, quality control and educating farm workers about specialty coffee.
Carlos believes in supporting his community and helping as many farmers as possible embrace specialty coffee. He has channeled his passion for traceability into an application that traces coffee from the day it is harvested to the shipping lot.
