Mae Suai (Thailand)

Artwork Credit: Sam Landsberg

This coffee is perfectly balanced and is ideally suited for drip or pourover.

Nawin Yaesorkoo is one of the most innovative farmers and coffee processors in Thailand, producing coffee at his family farm in Hua Chang and carrying out post-harvest processing at his mill in Mae Suai. Mae Suai is one of the largest coffee growing areas in Thailand, with 500 households of the Akha hill tribe growing several varieties including Catuai, Typica, Chiang Mai, and SJ133. This coffee was grown by the smallholder producers of the Mae Suai area, and processed using a Red Honey post-harvest processing method at Nawin’s mill.

Mae Suai Red Honey was sourced from our exporting partners in Thailand, Beanspire Coffee. Beanspire’s co-founders, Fuadi Pitsuwan and Jane Kittiratanapaiboon, are part of the young generation moving the Thai coffee industry forward. Thailand is unique as a coffee producing country; the country’s specialty cafe and roaster scene is thriving, and domestic consumption demands regularly outpace the country’s production volume. Only around 5% of Thailand’s specialty coffee is exported each year, while the rest is enjoyed by Thai coffee drinkers. 

Beanspire mill is one of the most advanced in Thailand, with a destoner, huller, and a gravity table for density sorting. Jane and Fuadi have built Beanspire to produce quality from the outset, passing all coffee through density and hand sorting multiple times to ensure quality and uniformity. We’re proud to partner with Beanspire Coffee to share this unique lot of coffee with you, and this is our fifth year working with Beanspire and their import partner, Ally. 

This coffee underwent white honey processing. Freshly harvested ripe coffee cherries are first floated to remove any potential defects before being pulped, retaining a small amount of mucilage on the coffee for drying so that the final cup is more expressive, yet still clean.