PNG Mt Otto

Tasting Notes: Butterscotch · Cocoa · Black Tea

From the rugged Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Mt Otto delivers a beautifully balanced cup with rich body and gentle complexity. Soft butterscotch and cocoa sweetness give way to a smooth black-tea finish, with a clean, well-mannered acidity throughout.

Grown by smallholder farmers across volcanic mountain terrain, PNG coffees are shaped by remote, mineral-rich soils — producing cups that feel both grounded and quietly exotic.

Origin

• Estate: Smallholder farmers
• Region: Mt Otto, Eastern Highlands — Papua New Guinea
• Altitude: 1,500–1,800 m
• Process: Alchemy
• Varietal: Bourbon & Typica
• Roast: Medium

In The Cup

• Body: Medium-full, rich
• Acidity: Clean, moderate
• Sweetness: Butterscotch, cocoa
• Finish: Smooth, black tea

About The Origin

Mount Otto is a 2,991 m peak in the Bismarck Range about 18 km north-east of Goroka, the Eastern Highlands' main town. The Eastern Highlands is PNG's second-largest coffee province after the Western Highlands; around Goroka and Kainantu coffee grows at about 1,550-1,900 m, with a wet season from about December to April, and smallholders grow over 85% of the country's coffee. PNG's main harvest runs roughly April to September. PNG's Coffee Industry Corporation describes the province's coffees as sweet, with cocoa and spice, a tea-like quality and clean lemony acidity.

About The Varietal

Typica is one of arabica's two founding lines, carried from Ethiopia via Yemen to Java and on to the Americas; it gives a very good cup at altitude but yields little and is highly susceptible to leaf rust. Bourbon, taken from Yemen to Bourbon island (now Reunion) by the French in the early 1700s, is known for sweetness and excellent cup quality and is also disease-susceptible. PNG's smallholder gardens are largely these old lines and their descendants (Typica, Bourbon, Arusha, Blue Mountain).

How It Was Processed

Washed

Brewing Notes

Excellent as espresso, plunger, or filter — chocolatey body with a clean, tea-like finish. Versatile enough for milk drinks or black.

Brewed With Purpose

Roasted in small batches at our Maxwell Road roastery by baristas writing a new chapter. Every bag helps fund barista and life-skills training through The TCE Academy — because marginality is not destiny.

“You crown the year with your bounty.” — Psalm 65:11