Our Coffee is grown on the ridge running SSW of a village known as La Fila...(meaning the ridge in Spanish) and the Name of our Coffee. La Fila is 2.28 miles (as the Macaw flies!) from San Vito the beautiful village where or coffee is processed. This ridge is the highest continuous ridge in Costa Rica. It runs over 4,000 ft. high for a distance of about two miles. When you purchase Fila Coffee, you will be enjoying something very, very special, indeed.
We take great pleasure in working with the local "Ticos" to provide you with the best of the best. Our processing facilities are ISO 9001 certified meaning that you are assured the best handling processes available today. Our growers and workers take a great deal of pride in offering you the most special coffee you can ever taste.
Our "Drying Process": The first stage of the machine drying process simply removes the excess outer moisture left by the outer skin and sweet fruit that have been removed from around the "Bean." The "husk" or "skin" remains and holds the moisture within the bean. At this point, there are two possible ways for our coffee to be handled. 1 - It is sent to "finishing" the Traditional Costa Rican way..."un-roasted sun dried method (in the rural areas of Costa Rica, these beans are then roasted every morning.) or 2 - The beans are sent to a "dryer" to finish to a level we call "Oro Verde"...meaning "Green Gold."
The first stage of the machine drying process removes the excess outer moisture from the outer skin and sweet fruit that have been removed from around the "Bean." The "husk" or "skin" remains and holds the moisture within the bean. At this point, we deploy one of the two options explained above...either, "Traditional Costa Rican method" or the "un-roasted"
Just let us know how you like your coffee. Please visit us at www.filacoffee.com. You will be glad you did!
