Friends coffee farm, Panama Breaks Record for Coffee $ (again)

[WillBrink]

Panama broke the record again for a kilo of coffee, just north of 30k. Friend of mine owns a small coffee farm, and is starting to offer coffee in bulk now, still small amounts. Pic below of some samples I returned from Panama with, with my coffee booster product. His coffee will never be 30k a kilo I suspect, but no doubt will be viewed exclusive single origin coffee that's excellent. It's a small family run place, locals live and work there. He's working on a web site now, can be found on FB as Susan's Farm if interested. I'm trying to help him get some wholesale accounts in the US.

$30,000+ Per Kilo is the Price for Panamanian Geisha Coffee from Boquete Breaking a Record​

Panamanian Geisha coffee once again sets a record sale price at The Best of Panama international electronic auction. This time it was the washed Geisha coffee, grown at Hacienda La Esmeralda in Boquete, Chiriquí, that set a record, selling for $30.204 per kilo. The Best of Panama global auction, which took about 12 hours between bidding and rebidding by buyers of specialty coffee from around the world, is a reference each year for lovers of good coffee to purchase the exclusive Panamanian bean. Julith Coffee, from Dubai, was the buyer who took the batch of washed geisha coffee from the La Esmeralda estate. In the natural geisha coffee category, the lot went to a buyer from China, who bid $23,608 per kilo, a product from the Peterson family’s La Esmeralda farm.

Cont: https://newsroompanama.com/2025/08/...geisha-coffee-from-boquete-breaking-a-record/

 

[BlackTalon]

Counter Culture might be a good operation to approach.

 

[Cbdb2]

So about $300 a cup or $1000 for a grande and it ends up in the toilet.
Makes me think of the quote "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich".

 

[Soniclife]

So about $300 a cup or $1000 for a grande and it ends up in the toilet.

I make it over $500 a cup. I'm assuming the price is for green coffee, so you lose about 15% when you roast it, and a cup uses 15g of roasted coffee. It's a 1000 times more expensive than high quality speciality coffee, which doesn't need improving.

 

[Somafunk]

So about $300 a cup or $1000 for a grande and it ends up in the toilet.
Makes me think of the quote "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich".

When I try a new variety/roast strength of beans every so often it takes 3 to 4 pulls to get the grounds and tamp, brew time set up, at £30k a kilo that’d work out quite expensive