Godoys de Guatemala, S.A.

Godoys de Guatemala is a medium-sized, family operated coffee business. The Godoy family is dedicated to bringing you the finest gourmet coffee from Guatemala. The family plantations were planted a century ago, on the Moyuta Volcano, near the border with El Salvador, using the original gourmet quality "bourbon" coffee beans.


The farm is located 5,000 to 6,000 feet in elevation. The farms have never been sprayed with chemical pesticides or fertilized with non-organic sources since they were planted. The natural fertilizers that are used come from the coffee process itself and on-farm produced compost. All of the coffee is shade grown, using nitrogen-fixing trees to help improve soil composition and provide a natural bird and animal refuge.

All the coffee is hand-picked, picking only the ripest beans. On farm is located a small, wet-mill which takes the coffee berries from the wine-colored, sweet sticky fruit to the parchment covered seed. During the wet-mill process the berry is de-pulped, and the remaining seeds are stored overnight for fermentation to remove the remaining slimy fruit. Then the seeds are washed in running water and set out to sun dry. The wet-mill system used on the Godoy farm recycles the water to minimize environmental impact. All the water used after the wet-mill process is reabsorbed into the soil, where it fertilizes instead of contaminating water sources.

The roasting facility in Guatemala City roasts coffee daily on order to insure freshness. When and order is received the coffee is roasted within 24 hours and shipped out immediately.