El Mirador

Elkin Guzman

Small-scale producer

Pitalito is a town in the Department of Huila, southwest Colombia, and home to the Guzman family, who have been involved in coffee production for more than 70 years. Now in its third generation, the current head of the farm is Elkin Fernery Guzman, a renowned pioneer of coffee fermentation. Elkin began his research into fermentation in 2005 and since then has gone on to create processing techniques that include carbonic maceration, lactic and acetic natural processes, and natural hydro honey...