About us
Liberté Coffee is a business with purpose, built on foundations of equality, inclusivity, fairness, sustainability, and the conviction that shared knowledge creates a better world. At Liberté Coffee we are dedicated to provide specialty and high quality coffee, and to serve our stakeholders and clients with friendly and great service; we believe that everybody along the coffee value journey is important and deserving of equal and extraordinary service. We work with small and medium producers in Guatemala and independent coffee experts in Guatemala, USA, and Europe to grow, craft, and offer high quality coffee, and to create a platform of opportunities and development our people.
Meet Our People
“Liberté Coffee is everybody who is part of our value chain and our social outreach program.”
The heart of any organization is the people; through their knowledge, skills, commitment and passion, our team contributes to the quality of products, reflecting this organization’s values and beliefs, creating a positive environment to work, collaborate, and thrive. Liberté’s heart is comprised of cross-generational, international, talented, and highly skilled staff, independent consultants, farmers, and artisans in Guatemala, USA, and Europe. The Liberté Coffee team is passionate about their work, committed to delivering high quality coffee, believing in the promise of a better and fairer today and tomorrow for everyone.
Our team’s experience and expertise include agriculture, coffee farming, roasting, brewing, project management, product and farm engineering, operations management, quality control, logistics, marketing, investment, legal, and strategic management.
The Vision
Liberté Coffee’s vision is to expand our network of farmers to other regions in Guatemala, as well as other countries, so we can offer more varieties of coffee, and increase the footprint of communities that will be impacted by our Social Outreach Program. We also seek to expand our portfolio to artisanal products from the communities, to create growth opportunities for these talented artisans, and to offer the world beautiful and uniquely handcrafted products. Our dream is to establish a “beyond fair trade” and sustainable business model for coffee that would bring equality and fairness to the people where the wonderful journey of coffee begins, our farmers and their helping hands.
The Farms
Currently most of our coffee comes from the farms Los Alamos and Los Limares in La Libertad, Huehuetenango. Los Alamos is located at an altitude of approximately 1,800 to 1,900 m, and Los Limares at an altitude approximately of 1,300 m. The area is quite mountainous, and is rich in aquifers and rivers, which provide fresh water to the region, and maintains dense in vegetation.
Most of the year the weather is mild, spring-like, creating a great environment for a variety of fauna and flora. Silky Oak and Chalum trees provide the shade to our coffee, managed to an optimal ratio of shade and sunlight. In these farms we find arabica coffee in varieties of Bourbon, Villasarchí, Caturra, and Pache.
The Castillo family runs Los Alamos for more than 50 years, they are very passionate about the coffee and the process. The Recinos family, 5 brothers, along with their parents own Los Limares, comprised of six mini-lots. Liberté Coffee is providing technical support to the farms through our Agricultural Engineer, who has conducted a full characterization for the farms, identifying opportunities to improve production and quality, and continues to provide technical support to the farms.
The harvest season in this area starts in November/December and typically runs until March; it is certainly the most lively and fun time of the year around the farms. The workers come down with their families from the communities of El Papal and Wiya and live temporally at the farms during the harvest season. The coffee is processed, and sun dried within the farms, Los Alamos has one medium standard wet mill and Los Limares shares two small ones.
For more information about our farms, and special processes, contact us.
Our Story
“Liberté nace del deseo de libertad, de construir un mejor mundo, de conectar, y del amor.” Elmer Muñoz
Founded by Elmer Muñoz, a Guatemalan entrepreneur who has spent the last 16 years working in the energy sector around the world, to finally reconnect with his country and his mother’s roots in the coffee town of La Libertad, Huehuetenango. As an Engineer in the energy sector, Elmer has been working in USA, Africa, Europe, South America, and the Middle East; amassing an expertise of international business and a wealth of human experience.
Despite spending his adult life outside Guatemala, Elmer has always remained close to his home country and his roots. His connection to the coffee world is through his mother, Isaura López, native to La Libertad. Decades after the childhood visits to this wonderful place, Elmer returned and identified an opportunity to promote the excellent and delicious coffee to the World he has seen, and to support the development of his mother’s hometown. Three years later, Liberté Coffee is born.
Meet Our People
“Liberté Coffee is everybody who is part of our value chain and our social outreach program.”
The heart of any organization is the people; through their knowledge, skills, commitment and passion, our team contributes to the quality of products, reflecting this organization’s values and beliefs, creating a positive environment to work, collaborate, and thrive. Liberté’s heart is comprised of cross-generational, international, talented, and highly skilled staff, independent consultants, farmers, and artisans in Guatemala, USA, and Europe. The Liberté Coffee team is passionate about their work, committed to delivering high quality coffee, believing in the promise of a better and fairer today and tomorrow for everyone.
Our team’s experience and expertise include agriculture, coffee farming, roasting, brewing, project management, product and farm engineering, operations management, quality control, logistics, marketing, investment, legal, and strategic management.
The Vision
Liberté Coffee’s vision is to expand our network of farmers to other regions in Guatemala, as well as other countries, so we can offer more varieties of coffee, and increase the footprint of communities that will be impacted by our Social Outreach Program. We also seek to expand our portfolio to artisanal products from the communities, to create growth opportunities for these talented artisans, and to offer the world beautiful and uniquely handcrafted products. Our dream is to establish a “beyond fair trade” and sustainable business model for coffee that would bring equality and fairness to the people where the wonderful journey of coffee begins, our farmers and their helping hands.
The Farms
Currently most of our coffee comes from the farms Los Alamos and Los Limares in La Libertad, Huehuetenango. Los Alamos is located at an altitude of approximately 1,800 to 1,900 m, and Los Limares at an altitude approximately of 1,300 m. The area is quite mountainous, and is rich in aquifers and rivers, which provide fresh water to the region, and maintains dense in vegetation.
Most of the year the weather is mild, spring-like, creating a great environment for a variety of fauna and flora. Silky Oak and Chalum trees provide the shade to our coffee, managed to an optimal ratio of shade and sunlight. In these farms we find arabica coffee in varieties of Bourbon, Villasarchí, Caturra, and Pache.
The Castillo family runs Los Alamos for more than 50 years, they are very passionate about the coffee and the process. The Recinos family, 5 brothers, along with their parents own Los Limares, comprised of six mini-lots. Liberté Coffee is providing technical support to the farms through our Agricultural Engineer, who has conducted a full characterization for the farms, identifying opportunities to improve production and quality, and continues to provide technical support to the farms.
The harvest season in this area starts in November/December and typically runs until March; it is certainly the most lively and fun time of the year around the farms. The workers come down with their families from the communities of El Papal and Wiya and live temporally at the farms during the harvest season. The coffee is processed, and sun dried within the farms, Los Alamos has one medium standard wet mill and Los Limares shares two small ones.
For more information about our farms, and special processes, contact us.
Our Story
“Liberté nace del deseo de libertad, de construir un mejor mundo, de conectar, y del amor.” Elmer Muñoz
Founded by Elmer Muñoz, a Guatemalan entrepreneur who has spent the last 16 years working in the energy sector around the world, to finally reconnect with his country and his mother’s roots in the coffee town of La Libertad, Huehuetenango. As an Engineer in the energy sector, Elmer has been working in USA, Africa, Europe, South America, and the Middle East; amassing an expertise of international business and a wealth of human experience.
Despite spending his adult life outside Guatemala, Elmer has always remained close to his home country and his roots. His connection to the coffee world is through his mother, Isaura López, native to La Libertad. Decades after the childhood visits to this wonderful place, Elmer returned and identified an opportunity to promote the excellent and delicious coffee to the World he has seen, and to support the development of his mother’s hometown. Three years later, Liberté Coffee is born.
