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 in 2026 is a story of stubborn resilience. After two decades of de...
Puerto Rico Coffee Cooperatives and Economics
The economic structure of Puerto Rican coffee has always depended on institutions that connect s...
Utuado and Ciales: Central Mountain Coffee Regions
Utuado and Ciales — two adjacent municipalities in Puerto Rico's central mountain range — repres...
Las Marías: Puerto Rico's Smallest Coffee Municipality
Las Marías is Puerto Rico's smallest coffee municipality by population — a quiet western mountai...
Orocovis: The Geographic Heart of Puerto Rico Coffee
Orocovis sits at the geographic center of Puerto Rico, a high-altitude mountain municipality who...
Villalba: Lake Toa Vaca and the Southern Coffee Slopes
Villalba occupies Puerto Rico's southern mountain slopes, a coffee-growing municipality whose dr...
Café del Futuro: The USDA Puerto Rico Coffee Revitalization Project
Café del Futuro — "Coffee of the Future" — is the USDA-led research and revitalization project d...
Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico Coffee Recovery (2017-2022)
Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, causing the most catastrophi...
Puerto Rico Coffee Grades: Specialty, High Mountain Grown, and the SCA Scale
Puerto Rico coffee grading uses three overlapping systems — the Specialty Coffee Association's (...
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 Spa...
Alto Grande Super Premium: The Coffee of Popes and Kings from Lares
In 1839, in the Buenos Aires and Santa Isabel sectors of Lares, deep in Puerto Rico's central mo...
Casa Pueblo and Café Madre Isla: Adjuntas's Solar-Powered Coffee Movement
In the small mountain town of Adjuntas, deep in Puerto Rico's central cordillera, a community or...
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 ce...
The Oficina de Cafés de Puerto Rico: How the Island Regulates, Protects, and Develops Its Coffee Industry
The Oficina de Cafés de Puerto Rico (OCPR) is the government office that regulates, protects, an...
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 sits in the Saliente sector of Jayuya, in the geographic center of Puerto...
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 de...
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...