Populus Coffee

22/06/2026

Hugo Pareja - Incahuasi, Peru - Caturra & Bourbon

Juicy, creamy and delightfully bright mix of Caturra and Bourbon from Hugo Pareja from Incahuasi district, Cusco, Peru. This coffee brews a delicious cup with notes of gooseberries, white grapes and mixed stone fruits.

Hugo Pareja's farm sits at one of the highest altitudes in the Incahuasi district, perhaps even in Peru between 2300-2500 meters in altitude. He has been redeveloping shade for the coffee trees in these otherwise treeless areas and developing infrastructure for extended fermentation, washing tanks and drying beds.

The farm's name, Inka Rumi “Coffee on the Rocks”, derives from the massive boulders throughout the farm. despite the boulders, the dark volcanic soil in Inka Rumi is very rich in nutrients. All it took was a few light shade trees at this 2400+ meter high farm to make the perfect conditions for growing coffee.

Hugo, like many other farmers in Incahuasi valley, utilizes the Peruvian Ayni system of working, where many hands make light work and people can rotate the picking regularly. Hugo works mainly with the Arabica varieties of Caturra and Bourbon, with some Typica, which are performing very well at this altitude, much better than the hybrid varieties like Catimor which Hugo is currently pulling out of is farm. All varieties are separated at harvest to make micro-lots of each variety and this year we chose his Caturra and Bourbon to create this unique farmer micro-lot.

The members of each committee in the Incahuasi Coop share the same Inca ancestry and culture. Traditionally the Incas share the working processes amongst the community and today the members of the Inchuasi Coop still employ the methods of Minka -to share work on infrastructure in the community- and Ayni -to share work and collaborate between farmers on a day to day basis-. Through this collaboration of work the practices become refined amongst each farmer and perfected in the Inca tradition.
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19/06/2026

Happy Midsummer/Midsommar/Juhannus/Summer solstice!

To us Finns, Juhannus is probably the most magical and anticipated holiday of the year. It’s a celebration of the summer, the nightless night and respect for nature and community. It’s often spent by the lakeside or the coast with friends and family, eating, drinking and of course bathing in the sauna, as well as doing traditional spells and magic. ✨️🌸🪷🏵🌹🌺🌷🪻🔥

Great coffee is of naturally an essential part of any celebration and also helps to get the most out of the longest day of the year. ☀️👀☀️
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12/06/2026

08/06/2026

Start your 'World of Coffee' morning fresh with a celebration of clarity, sweetness, and brightness; as well as shared passion, community, and friendship.

Crisp and Clean is a curated cupping featuring exclusively washed coffees from four outstanding, award-winning European roasteries:

✨️MOK Coffee, Brussels /

✨️Populus Coffee, Berlin / .coffee

✨️Good Life Coffee, Helsinki /

✨️Kaffa Roastery, Oslo /

Expect vibrant acidity, transparent flavor profiles, coffees that showcase the elegance of the washed process, good people, and interesting chats.

We'd appreciate if you could register to the event on Eventbrite to give us an idea of how many people to Expect, but feel free to come by spontaneously as well.
Link in bio (.coffee)

See you all in Brussels! 💚👋
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02/06/2026

Populus x Zacharias Summer Cupping ☀️☕️

We are joining our friends at Zacharias for a summer cupping.

This event is a part of our 10 year anniversary tour around Europe as well as our celebration of our head roaster Ellie's ( ) win of the German roasters championship.

On the table you will find coffees from people we have been working with even before we started roasting. We are also bringing some special release lots in preparations to follow Ellie on their way to compete at the World Championships in Brussels later this month.

We are cupping coffees from:
Santa Bàrbara, Honduras
Incahuasi, Peru
Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Come slurp, chat and have a good time with us!

25/05/2026

This weekend we are traveling to Bratislava to take part at the .different_festival . We'll be brewing and cupping amazing, bright and juicy coffees for the whole Saturday and Sunday at our stand. Come say hi and taste our coffees. ☕️🙌

We are excited to explore city as much as we can so please share your tips for great coffee, pastries, food and wine below. 👌💚
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19/05/2026

Joel Gonzales - Honduras

Bright and sweet natural processed Geisha by Joel Gonzales from Las Vegas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Full of delicious flavours of stone fruits, mixed berries and black tea with white floral and sweet herbal undertones.

Joel Gonzales is a true farmer at heart. He inherited lower-altitude farms from his father, where he grew conventional coffee, and over time built an exporting business for bananas sourced from local smallholders. In 2020, he took a bold step into specialty coffee, purchasing a high-altitude farm, Los Gatos, dedicated entirely to high-quality coffee.

Los Gatos sits at 1,400 meters above sea level and is planted with 2 manzanas of Geisha and 1 manzana each of Parainema and Pacamara. The farm experiences cold, humid air that slows cherry maturation. In moderation, this stress pushes the plants to develop complexity, producing coffee with refined acidity and layered flavors.

This region, the producers, and the coffees have a special meaning to Populus, as it’s the place where the idea of working with specialty coffee was born after meeting the people, seeing how specialty coffee can be traded directly and tasting these coffees.
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29/04/2026

Ariel Gomez - Honduras

Juicy cup with notes of stone fruits, mixed berries and black tea. Anaerobic washed Catimor variety from Ariel Gomez’s farm, Finca Vertical in El Dorado, Santa Bárbara, Honduras.

Ariel is a motivated and dedicated coffee producer who cultivates multiple varieties on his farm, he acquired from a colleague and friend, Arturo Paz. In addition to producing coffee he works as a junior Agronomist at San Vicente, our partners in Honduras and one of the most sough-after specialty coffee exporter. We met Ariel for the first time a few years ago and this is the second year we are buying coffee from him.

This region, the producers, and the coffees have a special meaning to Populus, as it’s the place where the idea of working with specialty coffee was born after meeting the people, seeing how specialty coffee can be traded directly and tasting these coffees.

This lot, is roasted especially for another long-term partner of ours. Sofi the bakery, with whom we have been working closely together since 2021. You can find it on their batch brew as well as their shelves and online shop.
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15/04/2026

Samuel Espinosa - Peru

Refined and fresh, washed Typica from Samuel Espinosa’s farm, Finca Tarcuyuc in Incahuasi district high in Peru.

Samuel is a new partner for us, whom we met through our old Peruvian partners, APU Coffee, exclusively working with the Incahuasi district, where we visited for the first at the end part of 2025. Traveling to this district is a two-day trip by car from any of the closest airports on a wild, serpentine roads climbing well above 4000 meters.

In Incahuasi everyone farms organically, adding only seabird guano as a fertiliser. The farms share characteristics with some Ethiopian forest farms, with low-intervention cultivation and an abundance of shade trees. The best performing varieties are mainly Geisha, Typica, a natural mutation named “Americano”  and an as-yet-to-be-genetically-determined SL-9 mutation that many producers refer to as Geisha Inca.

Samuel’s farm sits at an elevation of 2110 meters where coffee trees are subjected to colder temperatures and more stress. This leads to increased sugar levels and more complex acids to develop contributing to clean and fresh cup notes with fruity acidity and complex flavor notes.

Get your bag from our online shop or our selected retail partners around Europe.

13/04/2026

Easy Evening Cupping at this Friday. Limited spots, book yours now at Eventbrite (link to our events on bio)

We are coming to Prague this weekend for Barista Roku and are popping by our friends at Ronin for an easy evening cupping of our current lineup. Coffees from our longterm partners from Honduras, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ethiopia and Peru.

Come slurp, chat and have a good start to the weekend. 🙌

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