Coffee Is People

At Torque we intentionally lead with people first. So instead of listing our coffees by blends or single origins we start with the Coffee Producers. We are fully transparent so you can see not only every single origin from a producer but also every blend that uses their beans as well.

The retail price of every coffee is calculated based off the price the producer was paid. 20% of the price was pre-paid to each producer.

Edwin Martinez | Guatemala

On a high slope surrounded by the lush valleys and ridges, Finca Vista Hermosa is indeed the vantage point of a Beautiful View. Their family farm is a prime example of Huehuetenango fertility, and there's a good reason it's base camp to so many roaster visits over the years. Heavily invested in ecologically sound and healthy farming practices, the farm represents the rich legacy of three generations pouring their hearts into this region.

We are incredibly excited to once again offer the impeccable coffees that the Martinez family always produces. 

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Carolina Ramirez | Colombia

Maria Pacas | El Salvador

Maria Pacas comes from a storied coffee family in El Salvador. We have counted Maria and the Pacas family as friends since 2008 when we first met them. Over the years, at various companies we have done some wonderful projects with them. Maria Pacas and her family own several small to mid sized farms in El Salvador. Finca La Providencia and Finca La Esperanza are the most well known. They have their own wet and dry mill and they have won the Cup of Excellence multiple times. Maria manages the entire coffee operation from seed to export overseeing not only the fincas but the wet and dry mill and export operations as well. Fun fact: her family also makes amazing Salvadoran rum.

Francisca Cubillo | Costa Rica

Beneficio Las Lajas ranks as one of the most progressive, high-quality coffee mills in all of Costa Rica. Francisca Cubillo and Oscar Chacón are the third generation of coffee producers in Costa Rica and the first ones to process their own coffee. It all starts with their farming practices; Las Lajas is a certified organic farm. These third-generation producers focus on preserving the environment while maintaining the highest quality coffee. We have worked with Francisca since 2009. She is a major force in driving quality improvements all over Costa Rica and beyond. Her processing advances literally changed the landscape of specialty coffee as we know it. 

 

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Martha Montenegro | Colombia

Martha Montenegro, alongside her coffee-savvy partners, Elias and Shady. Embracing natural coffee processes in 2018, they experimented with fermentation control, pioneering the Koji fermentation process, which revolutionized green coffee production. Together, they're not just brewing coffee; they're catalyzing a community revolution! Their mission? To blend technological innovation with coffee passion, enriching the lives of everyone at El Vergel Estate with a little extra joy and community spirit.

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Alejandro Martinez | Mexico

The Martinez family has always lived in the Xalapa-Coatepec area in the state of Veracruz. The farm was established by his great- great-grandfather Antonio Martinez. The dream of Alejandro is to revive the coffee culture in Coatepec. He started to plant rust-resistant varieties always separated by plot so that he can compare the results of each plot both in productivity and quality. His coffee has been resulting very well lately, Marsellesa and Mundo Maya represent high quality with consistency for some years, and his first harvests of Anacafe and Obata represented good as well with more unique characters.

Juan Diego De La Cerda

We have been working with Juan Diego (aka the Silver Fox) since 2009. El Socorro is one of the most award winning fincas in all of Guatemala and is a coffee farm of unsurpassable beauty in the highlands of Central Guatemala roughly 50 kilometers from Guatemala City. El Socorro’s prized coffees are a result of its high altitude location combined with University trained agronomist Juan Diego’s great attention to detail. He has spurred the farm's focus on quality coffee production with advanced processing techniques including warm water fermentation, which speeds up the fermentation process. In this shorter period of fermentation, the coffee grain keeps its density & maintains the coffee's components intact.

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