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Puerto Rico Coffee Today

The current state of Puerto Rican coffee — production, farms, specialty movement, and the 2026 industry landscape.

Puerto Rico Coffee Today: The 2026 State of the Industry

Puerto Rico's coffee industry today is a story of stubborn resilience. After decades of contracti...

Puerto Rico Coffee Cooperatives and Economics

The economic structure of Puerto Rican coffee has always depended on institutions that connect sm...

Utuado and Ciales: Central Mountain Coffee Regions

Utuado and Ciales — two adjacent municipalities in Puerto Rico's central mountain range — repres...

Las Marías: Coffee and China Dulce in Puerto Rico's Western Mountains

Las Marías sits in the mountains of western Puerto Rico, between Mayagüez and the coffee municipa...

Orocovis: The Geographic Heart of Puerto Rico Coffee

Orocovis sits at the geographic center of Puerto Rico, a high-altitude mountain municipality whos...

Villalba: Lake Toa Vaca and the Southern Coffee Slopes

Villalba occupies Puerto Rico's southern mountain slopes, a coffee-growing municipality whose dri...

Café del Futuro: Puerto Rico's Climate-Smart Coffee Project

Café del Futuro is a four-year, $15 million climate-smart agriculture project led by NCBA CLUSA a...

Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico Coffee Recovery (2017-2022)

Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 as a Category 4 storm with sustained wind...

Puerto Rico Coffee Grades: Specialty, High Mountain Grown, and the SCA Scale

A cupping session photographed in black and white: numbered bowls, cupping spoons and scoring sli...

Hacienda San Pedro: The Atienza Family Coffee Legacy in Jayuya

In the Coabey sector of Jayuya, deep in the heart of Puerto Rico's central mountain range, a Span...

Alto Grande: A Lares Coffee Brand and Its Heritage Claims

Alto Grande is a Puerto Rican coffee brand from Lares, marketed under the phrase "the coffee of ...

Casa Pueblo and Café Madre Isla: Adjuntas's Solar-Powered Coffee Movement

Casa Pueblo is a community organisation in Adjuntas, in Puerto Rico's central mountains. It began...

Hacienda Tres Ángeles: Puerto Rico's First Certified Agritourism Coffee Farm

Hacienda Tres Ángeles is a family-run coffee farm in Adjuntas that became Puerto Rico's first cer...

The Oficina de Cafés de Puerto Rico: How the Island Regulates, Protects, and Develops Its Coffee Industry

The Oficina de Cafés de Puerto Rico is the government office responsible for coffee within Puerto...

Café Finca Cialitos: Q-Grader Joaquín Pastor and the Single-Estate Coffee of Ciales

Café Finca Cialitos is a single-estate Puerto Rican coffee from the mountain town of Ciales. Fou...

Hacienda Tres Picachos: The Jayuya Heritage Farm Run by the Same Family for Over 40 Years

Hacienda Tres Picachos is a working coffee farm in the mountains of Jayuya, in the centre of Puer...

Cuatro Sombras and Hacienda Santa Clara: San Juan's Specialty Coffee Pioneer

Cafe Cuatro Sombras opened its Old San Juan microroaster in February 2011, becoming the first ded...

Café Lareño: The Lares Family Hacienda and the Quiet Coffee of the Northwest Mountains

Café Lareño sits at kilometer 40 of Carretera 128, in the La Torre sector of Lares — high in the ...