About El Peñón Farm
Owner Ivan Ovalle is focused on producing high quality, ecologically friendly coffees at his farm, Finca El Penón in La Democracia, Huehuetenango.
Ovalle holds an engineering degree and has utilized his training to increase Finca El Penón's water efficiency and to ensure that workers pick only the ripest cherry with the highest sugar content. The farm is 7 hectares, 15 of which are devoted to forest reserves, while the remaining 60 hectares are planted with Caturra, Pache and Bourbon.
Finca El Penón is dedicated to protecting the environment from any adverse effects of coffee growing. Ovalle has been focused on reducing water usage year after year and working with various certification programs to improve the farm's environmental and social impacts.
Frequently asked questions
Our passion for coffee comes from our love for the way it’s made, the people who grow it and the care they put in to growing every single coffee plant - making sure each bean is of the highest quality.
From visits to coffee farms across the globe and the close relationships we hold dearly with farmers and trusted import partners, we have embraced our responsibility to do our bit to help make the coffee industry better - starting by knowing exactly where our beans come from, who is growing them and who’s handling it between the farm and us.
Understanding this chain is the key to ensuring a sustainable future for coffee growing communities for years to come and the ability to continually improve quality of coffee and quality of life.
Every one of the coffees we buy is specialty grade, has a story behind it and is grown, harvested, and processed with care and attention.
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We roast all our coffee in our Liverpool Roastery and have been doing so since 2015.
We roast a range of speciality coffee, including many single origins and our signature Bean Blend – a number of which have won Great Taste Awards that we’re really proud of.
Here at Bean we are dedicated to doing the best we can to ensure we have a truly sustainable supply chain, from crop to cup. We are always choosing the most eco-friendly options that are available to us and are constantly looking for ways we can improve.
In our stores we offer customers 50p off their drink when they bring in reusable cup, we ourselves use recyclable cups, and compostable lids and straws.
You can learn more about what we’re doing to lessen our footprint here.