Peruvian Carbon Neutral Coffee

Product image 1Peruvian Coffee - Front Label
Product image 2Peruvian Coffee - Back label
Product image 3Carbon Neutral Since 2008 logo
Product image 4Peruvian Coffee - 5 pound bag
Product image 5Two women standing next to a drawing of a tree

Regular price $14.49

Cupping Notes: Sweet. Mild. Medium Bodied. Carbon Neutral Coffee.
USDA Organic Logo Fair Trade Federation Logo Bird Friendly Logo
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The World's First Carbon Neutral Coffee!

[Roast Level] Light*

[Region] Amazonian Highlands, Peru

[Cooperative] PANGOA

[Partners Since] 2003

[Altitude] 1200-1800M

[Varietal] Caturra, Typica, Bourbon, Catimor

[Processing Method] Fully Washed


*You may have noticed that this coffee is now listed as a light instead of medium roast. We haven't changed anything about the roast (I repeat: nothing has changed!), we are just recategorizing it to more accurately reflect it's roast level.


We’ve collaborated with this community to design and implement the following initiatives:

  • Reforestation Program - with over 300,000 trees planted to date, this program makes a Carbon Negative company
  • Obtained Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Bird-Friendly Coffee Certificate
  • Women's Loan Fund

Read more below...

We took a chance on Pangoa, a small coop on the Amazonian slopes of Central Peru back in 2003, being their first Fair Trade and Direct buyer. Since then, we have introduced this coffee to the specialty marketplace, and the sweet, soft beans prepared so well by indigenous Ashaninkas farmers have been in great demand in America and in Europe. We continue to enjoy the best of their crop in return for our long-term commitment.

Pangoa and Dean's Beans have collaborated on the creation of many meaningful and successful initiatives together over the years. The coop has used our premiums, profit shares and development monies to create womens loan funds, a great reforestation program, a honey project for income diversification, college education funds and more!

Peru is the forgotten child of the specialty coffee world. It is a huge country, so much so that the growing seasons differ by a month or so even within the same country. Peruvian coffees are notable for their mildness and sweetness, even though they are grown at really high altitudes on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes. They are better in a light roast than a dark roast, as the flavor and mild acidity roast away quickly. But a soft, sweet Peru is a subtle charm and can really be appreciated if you take your time with it. One of the most easily drinkable coffees black. Wonderful coffees come from Chanchamayo, Pangoa, and Lamas.

"Restoring the Sacred" Reforestation Project (2006-ongoing)

  • Building nurseries and planting native trees to combat deforestation
  • 300,000 native trees planted
  • Enough trees planted to offset all carbon emissions created by all of Dean's Beans, making us a Carbon Negative company!
  • Obtained Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Bird-Friendly certification
  • Funding commitment to date: $19,500

Women's Loan Fund (2009-ongoing)

  • Offers credit to female coop members for income generating projects
  • Funding commitment to date: $10,000

Latrine Program (2009-ongoing)

  • Funding modern bathroom construction on farms in Pangoa
  • Funding commitment to date: $7,000

English Teaching Program (2012-ongoing)

  • Program sends interns to teach English
  • Funding commitment to date: $1,000

GM Esperanza Castillo Support (2009-ongoing)

  • Sponsoring Coop General Manager travel to international events, in order to speak about supporting women in the coffee industry

Past Projects

New Honey Business (2004)

  • Worked with Pangoa to create a honey product for local sale and distribution to help supplement farmers' income
  • Funding commitment: $2,700

First Fair Trade Buyer in Pangoa (2003)

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Customer Reviews

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Brad Stocker
Peruvian Special

I have been roasting my own green Peruvian beans and find them more flavorful than even the Colombian. I buy this one for my church and it is well appreciated. The stories behind this coffee somehow influence the flavor.

I wish the stories here on the webpage were printable to that I could put them out next to the coffee pot at the Quaker Meeting.

I have been buying from Deans for many years now and find the coffee not only the best but the people who work there the most kind and helpful and committed I have encountered in the coffee world.

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Animal Poet (Leeza)
Coffee from happy Earth brings sweetness to my day - and I love it!

It is no coincidence that contented earth produces pleasing coffee that soothes the senses. When I feel a day of serious coffee-drinking coming on, this is the brew that is going all day in my old-fangled stove-top percolator on my old-fashioned not-computerized stove. Think the old truck stop with the greatest coffee; think grandma’s kitchen and heavy white mugs! I look forward to the next mug ot this comforting coffee as much as I looked forward to all previous mugs. And, yes, I keep a heavy, old-fashioned white mug for this brew! Old-fangled coffee: coffee from happy Earth. It is lovely; it brings sweetness to my day; and I love it!

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Animal Poet (Leeza)
Coffee from happy Earth brings sweetness to my day - and I love ot!

It is no coincidence that contented earth produces pleasing coffee that soothes the senses. When I feel a day of serious coffee-drinking coming on, this is the brew that is going all day in my old-fangled stove-top percolator on my old-fashioned not-computerized stove. Think the old truck stop with the greatest coffee; think grandma’s kitchen and heavy white mugs! I look forward to the next mug ot this comforting coffee as much as I looked forward to all previous mugs. And, yes, I keep a heavy, old-fashioned white mug got this brew! Old-fangled coffee: coffee from happy Earth. It is lovely; it brings sweetness to my day; and I love it!

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Animal Poet (Leeza)
AN EARTH-CHANGING COFEE IS ALSO THE COFFEE YOU'LL LOVE TO DRINK ALL DAY!

It demands genius to produce this Earth-changing carbon neutral coffee. All it takes to savor it is to order it, brew it, pour it into your fave mug. Lo and behold: you are a climate neutral, reforestation supporting protector of our indomitable and brave migrating avian populations, since these are the gifts that are included in each sip of this wonderful coffee: an all-day coffee with a lovely, comforting sweet quality and affability with food or on its own that make this coffee a joy to drink. Secretly love Earth,, want to hug a tree, save the world, and give shelter to birds who brave the elements? (We, too!) Don’t ever let anyone mock you. Begin right here!

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Animal Poet (Leeza)
Bird-friendly; Earth-friendly; cookie-dipping-friendly! CELEBRATE!

A mild and delicious brew that is in fact a "gentle giant" whose growth is a gift to the planet and a tribute to every member of the team that followed the rigorous steps required to achieve carbon neutrality. This is a vast accomplishment anytime; miraculous in the face of global hurdles now before us. Balancing emissions with removal is the goal and it is a brilliant, determined team that brought this about. Bird-friendly, Earth-friendly, food-friendly, sipping-friendly, cookie-dunking-friendly, coffee-love-friendly coffee! Celebrate!

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