Costa Rica - Coffee Origin Focus (RR11)

Roast and Reason: A Coffee Podcast

Costa Rica is known for it's beauty and its coffee. For centuries Costa Rican coffee has been respected as very high quality coffee and been able to command a good price on the global market.

It's not an exaggeration to say that coffee build Costa Rica. It did! Wealthy coffee farmers invested in the country and helped finance the country's railroad system, a major bank, one of the country's most important hospitals, and the National Theater. The history of coffee in Costa Rica is unique and different from many other countries that were under European colonial rule. Learn more about Costa Rica's coffee history in this podcast.

Classic Costa Rican coffee has a light body with a clean, mild flavor. Sometimes too clean and mild to the point of being criticized as being boring or forgettable. However with some recent major changes in the Costa Rican coffee industry this criticism is quickly disappearing.

Costa Rican coffee producers are focusing on unique small farm, single lot coffees with a variety of interesting and amazing flavors and characteristics. The honey processing technique was also pioneered here. Learn about this technique and the Yellow Honey, Red Honey, and Black Honey coffees that you might encounter from Costa Rica.