If you've already tried Green Hills' Tradition, Honey, or Natural, you know what specialty coffee can achieve when the process is done right. The Bronze, Silver, and Gold lines exist to go further.
These are the three most complex, most limited, and most demanding coffees in our production. Each has a distinct technical story — and a cup result unlike anything you've tasted before.
Bronze Coffee — Carbonic Maceration: when coffee learns from wine
Carbonic maceration is a process that the natural wine world has been using for decades and which, in specialty coffee, is only just being explored by the most experimental producers in the world.
The process works like this: whole coffee cherries — unhulled — are placed in a sealed tank into which carbon dioxide (CO₂) is injected to displace all oxygen. In this oxygen-free environment, the bean ferments from the inside out, driven by its own enzymes.
The result is a controlled fermentation with a precision impossible with conventional methods. The compounds that develop are distinct from any other process: more complex, unusual, and defined flavors, with a profile reminiscent of natural wine, fermented fruit, and subtle spices.
Doing it well requires specialized equipment, controlled temperature, and a producer who understands exactly what is happening inside the tank. An error in any variable ruins the entire batch.
Cup profile: Fermented fruits, spices, wine, dense body, complex and prolonged aftertaste.
For whom: The coffee lover who wants a radically different experience. The one who already knows Natural and wants to go a step further.
Silver Coffee — tropical complexity, surprising notes
Silver is the premium line coffee that most surprises those who try it without knowing what to expect. It doesn't have the drama of Bronze or the exclusivity of Gold — it has something more subtle and harder to achieve: balance between complexity and accessibility.
The Silver process involves a controlled wet fermentation with extended times that allow for the development of tropical and floral aromatic compounds rarely found in standard process coffees. The result is a coffee with exotic notes — passion fruit, lychee, white flowers — that coexist with a smooth body and a clean finish.
It's the coffee that most frequently turns someone into a cupper — because the first time they drink it, they search for words they've never needed before to describe a coffee.
Cup profile: Passion fruit, lychee, white flowers, bright acidity, smooth body, clean finish.
For whom: The explorer who wants exotic flavors without the extreme intensity of Bronze. The cupper in training.
Gold Coffee — the treasure of Hacienda Las Mercedes
Gold is not only Green Hills' most exclusive coffee — it is the coffee that best represents what Hacienda Las Mercedes can produce when all conditions align perfectly.
Not every year has Gold. Not every batch qualifies. The name is not marketing: it is the designation we reserve for the beans from the lot with the highest SCA score of the harvest, produced on the farm's plot with the most exceptional conditions of that year.
The Gold process combines strict fruit selection — only the most perfect beans from the harvest — with prolonged fermentation and slow drying on African beds under controlled conditions. The roast is specifically designed for that lot, adjusting the curve according to that year's profile.
The result is a coffee with a high specialty SCA score — above 87 points — with a complexity in the cup that tasters describe as a complete experience: it changes as it cools, reveals layers not present in the first sip, and leaves an aftertaste that lasts for minutes.
Cup profile: Variable depending on harvest. Notes of tropical fruits, flowers, fine chocolate, honey. High bright acidity, complex body, eternal aftertaste.
For whom: The connoisseur. The one who understands that in coffee, as in all things exceptional, scarcity is not a defect — it's part of the value.
Which one is for you?
| Coffee | Distinctive Process | Profile | For whom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | Carbonic Maceration | Intense, vinous, spicy | The extreme adventurer |
| Silver | Extended fermentation | Tropical, floral, balanced | The sophisticated explorer |
| Gold | Special selection lot | Complex, changing, extraordinary | The demanding connoisseur |
All three are limited production. When they're gone, they're gone — until the next harvest.
