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Café del Futuro — "Coffee of the Future" — is the USDA-led research and revitalization project developing climate-resilient coffee varieties, sustainable farming systems, and farmer education programs to rebuild Puerto Rico's coffee industry for the challenge...

Yauco Selecto is Puerto Rico's premium estate coffee brand — an internationally marketed specialty-grade coffee produced from three founding haciendas in the high mountains of Yauco, processed at the Alto Grande Beneficio in Lares, and exported since 1990 as ...

Puerto Rican coffee culture expresses itself through a family of traditional recipes and preparations — café con leche for the morning, cortadito and pocillo for the afternoon, coquito for the holidays, and coffee-infused flan for dessert — that together cons...

Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, causing the most catastrophic damage in the island's coffee history — destroying approximately 80 percent of Puerto Rico's coffee trees, generating losses of $85 million for the industry, and...

Puerto Rico coffee grading uses three overlapping systems — the Specialty Coffee Association's (SCA) 100-point cupping scale, the High Mountain Grown altitude classification, and the commercial specialty-grade AA designation — that together determine how Puer...

Puerto Rico was the world's sixth-largest coffee exporter during the 1890s — a golden age when 843 registered coffee haciendas across 69 of the island's 78 municipalities shipped approximately 600,000 quintals of high-grade coffee in the peak year of 1898, re...

Corsican immigrants arriving in Puerto Rico beginning in 1815 under the Spanish Cédula de Gracias — and continuing through the mid-19th century — settled primarily in the southwestern mountains around Yauco and Maricao, establishing the coffee haciendas that ...

Hacienda Lealtad was founded in 1830 by French immigrant Juan Bautista Plumey in Lares — one of Puerto Rico's oldest and largest coffee plantations, historically linked to the 1868 Grito de Lares independence revolt, fallen into ruin after the 1898 American a...

Café Don Ruiz operates from the Cuartel de Ballajá — the historic building that once housed Spanish soldiers in Old San Juan — serving single-harvest medium-dark roasted coffee from Yauco alongside a broader specialty coffee scene that has transformed Puerto ...

The Grito de Lares — the "Cry of Lares" — was Puerto Rico's first armed uprising against Spanish colonial rule, staged on September 23, 1868 by a Revolutionary Committee organized by Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, lawyer Segundo Ruiz Belvis, and approximately a...

Two Caribbean islands, two legendary mountain coffees, one ongoing debate. Jamaica Blue Mountain is the most famous coffee in the world by name — a household phrase among coffee drinkers from Tokyo to Toronto. Puerto Rico's premium coffees, especially Yauco S...

Decades before the Chemex, the V60, or the Kalita Wave, Puerto Rican grandmothers were making the smoothest pour-over coffee in the Caribbean using a flannel sock and a wire ring. The colador de café — also called la media (the sock) or simply el colador — is...

In the Coabey sector of Jayuya, deep in the heart of Puerto Rico's central mountain range, a Spanish immigrant named Emeterio Atienza bought a small coffee farm in the late 19th century and built what would become one of the island's most beloved single-estat...

In 1839, in the Buenos Aires and Santa Isabel sectors of Lares, deep in Puerto Rico's central mountains, a coffee estate was established that would become the most prestigious name in Puerto Rican coffee for the next century. Alto Grande Super Premium served ...

In the small mountain town of Adjuntas, deep in Puerto Rico's central cordillera, a community organization founded in 1980 has done what most coffee farms never attempt: it has built a fully self-sustaining coffee brand that funds an entire ecosystem of envir...

Hacienda Tres Ángeles is a family-run coffee farm in Adjuntas that became Puerto Rico's first certified agritourism farm. Tucked into the cordillera central beneath El Gigante Dormido — the Sleeping Giant mountain range — the hacienda produces 100% Arabica sp...

Long before Alto Grande Super Premium became famous as the coffee of popes and kings, the foundation of Puerto Rico's most celebrated coffee brand was being laid in the mountains of 19th-century Yauco. Corsican immigrants who arrived after the Royal Decree of...

The Puerto Rican coffee diaspora is the story of how café con leche, the colador (coffee sock), and the cultural ritual of the 3:00 p.m. cafecito traveled from the mountains of Adjuntas, Yauco, and Jayuya to the bodegas of Spanish Harlem, the panaderías of Ce...