No matter how you like to drink your coffee, it all starts with the beans……

• Pónaire has access to over 90 different green (un-roasted) coffee beans from over 20 countries around the world
• We import high grade Arabica beans from around the world – India, Indonesia, Kenya, Chile, Columbia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Tanzania, and Yemen, to name a few
• Our green beans are grade AA, AA++, or AAA
• Our beans are selected for their quality and taste from sources that support the local producer, their community and the certified to sell Fairtrade coffee 
• We offer UTZ CERTIFIED coffee – this program is based on the UTZ CERTIFIED Code of Conduct : a set of social and environmental criteria for responsible coffee growing practices and efficient farm management. Coffee producers who are UTZ CERTIFIED comply with this Code of Conduct.

Pónaire actively supports the UTZ CERTIFIED program – the world wide leading certification program for responsible coffee production and sourcing.

It answers two vital questions about the coffee:

1. Where does it come from?
2. How was it produced?

UTZ CERTIFIED coffee growers incorporate professional agricultural practices with care for the people and the environment.

Professional Agricultural Practices include: Training of Workers, Emergency Procedures, and Record Keeping, resulting in farmers being more professional and competitive in production and selling.

Supporting the Growers and their Community involves coffee farmers’ children being sent to school rather than put to work on the farm, healthcare and decent housing for the workers and their families.

Environmentally, the program educates and ensure appropriate and modest use of fertilizers and pesticides.

The UTZ CERTIFIED program does not interfere in price negotiations.

Our Beans

All of our beans are Arabica and were selected for their taste and quality.

Brazil

The Brazilian Santos beans that we roast are named after Santos - the port through which all Brazil's coffee passes. Brazilian Santos Coffee has been known for more than a 100 years as Brazil's 'Green Gold'. These coffee beans are grown high up in the hills of Brazil's Santos region. The careful cultivation of Santos coffee seeds and the harvesting of their beans has remained virtually unchanged for generations.

Brazilian coffees attribute their consistent good yield to the dry winters of the savannah highlands of Bahia and Northern Minas Gerais and their proximity to the Equator. The area benefits from well defined seasons, uniform maturation and plenty of sunshine in the harvesting season to produce a round cup with perfect balance between body and acidity. Brazilian Santos coffees are known for their very good body and aroma and a degree of natural sweetness not found elsewhere in the world. The coffee has a strong flavor and medium body.

Columbian Beans

We use high grade Arabica coffee from the world's 2nd largest producer. The coffee is grown in what is regarded by many as the best coffee growing region of Colombia, namely Medellin. The coffee produced has a rich, nutty taste and is a good all round cup of coffee. Good for all day drinking.

We also use UTZ CERTIFIED Columbian “La Manuela Farm” beans.

Indian Monsooned Malabar

This coffee is dried after picking and de-pulped in open walled sheds by the monsoon winds. This results in a clean coffee that possesses a slightly spicy, winey taste. These beans look different in their raw form – they are light in colour (like peanuts) and plumper and cleaner than most coffee beans.

Costa Rica Beans

We use a variety of Costa Rica beans. Many of our Costa Rica Beans are Shade-Grown Coffee, which translates into a healthy rainforest - also referred to as bird-friendly. This means the indigenous rainforest canopy has been left intact, rather than clearing the forest to maximize planting. Many species of migratory birds, insects and other creatures such as frogs and lizards live in these shady coffee farms. By growing coffee amongst the natural fauna of the Costa Rican rainforest we ensure that the many nutrients found in roots, decomposing plant matter and the natural mineral content of the volcanic soil are all retained, further adding to our coffee's intense flavor.

Indonesia

The Island of Java is located on the south east of Sumatra in Indonesia. Coffees from this region tend to have deep body and bold flavours. The coffee we source from this region is from the Java Blawan Estates and exhibits a nice perfumey aroma with a hint of floral, jasmine and spice. It is clean and rich with a fabulously smooth finish.

Kenya

Kenya is the 17th largest producer of coffee in the world. The Kenya coffee industry is noted for its cooperative system of milling, marketing, and auctioning coffee, and for its high percentage of production from small farms. It is estimated that six-million Kenyans are employed directly or indirectly in the coffee industry. The major coffee growing regions in Kenya are the High Plateaus around Mt. Kenya, the Aberdare Range, Kisii, Nyanza, Bungoma, Nakuru and Kericho. The high plateaus of Mount Kenya, plus the acidic soil provide excellent conditions for growing coffee plants. Coffee from Kenya is well known for its intense flavor, full body, and pleasant aroma. Kenya uses a grading system where AA is the largest followed by A and B.

Nicaragua

A fairly consistent Nicaragua flavor profile has emerged: sweet, balanced, rich, often full-bodied, with an emphasis on the low-toned chocolate and apricot/papaya side of the fruit sensation than on the higher-toned, floral, citrus side. We import high quality Nicaraguan beans that are graded AAA and of screen size 18.

Tanzania

Most of the Tanzanian Arabica coffee, such as the prized Tanzania peaberry coffee, is grown on Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru and is wet-processed. Coffee from Tanzania is graded the same as Kenya where AA is the largest followed by A and B. The Tanzanian coffee bean is said to share the same sharp and winey acidity and brightness as African and Arabian coffees. In general a good Tanzania coffee will have bright acidity and typically a sweet fruit and berry flavor.

Yemen

Yemen mocha is a dry-processed coffee and is marked either Mattari or Sanani. Yemen mocha coffee is characterized by a bright acidity, musky fruitiness, and earthiness, and is often compared to sweet spice, roasted nuts, chocolate, wood, and tobacco. Yemen mocha sanani is described as having a more balanced fruity character, while Yemen mattari has a heavier body and chocolate overtones.

Almost all Yemen coffee comes from ancient varieties of coffea arabica grown nowhere else in the world except perhaps in eastern Ethiopia.