Papua New Guinea Nebilyer

For multiple generations the Leahys have been based in PNG’s remote western highlands, growing, processing, and exporting specialty coffee against all odds.  All our Nebilyer Valley coffees share a rich tactile, deep caramelized earthy-sweetness, and PNG’s characteristic herbaceous balance, with touches of citrus zest and sweet tomato. Under PNG export standards, “A” grade coffee is the best possible preparation and can be paired with any screen size designation.  

PNG’s Nebilyer Valley is a broad and fertile high-elevation valley in the country’s western highlands. Mount Hagen, the largest nearby city of about 50,000 people, is extremely remote but also PNG’s third largest. Along with tropical fruits, spice, vanilla, livestock, and a huge variety of subsistence crops, farmers have been cultivating coffee here for about 80 years. As with other coffee producing areas of PNG, there is a mixture of large estates, known locally as “plantations”, and individual smallholders with their own ancestral plots or share-cropped style land leases for the purpose of cultivation.   

“Nebilyer Valley” coffee is sourced from family-owned farms located in the Tambul-Nebilyer District, a vast highland expanse west of Mount Hagen.  Each producer cultivates coffee on anywhere from 1-60 hectares of land.  During harvest, cherry is collected in the field and brought to the wet mill, where a visual inspection is carried out and receivable cherries are weighed by producer. Cherries are then mechanically depulped and left to ferment underwater for 18 hours, after which the parchment is decanted, washed, transferred to another tank, and fermented again for 18 hours under fresh water. After the full 36 hours of fermentation is complete, parchment is carried to the adjoining fields where it is spread in a thin layer across long tarpaulins to dry in the direct sun.  

FLAVOR PROFILE: Lemon. Apricot.  Peach
PRODUCER: Small holders Kuta Mill
VARIETAL: Bourbon, Typica
PROCESS: Washed
REGION: Tambul-Nebilyer District
ELEVATION: 1350 MASL

Shipping Information  We roast all our coffees to order so you receive the freshest coffee possible. Our roast days for online orders are Wednesdays.  All orders received by 3pm PST will be processed for the next roast.