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Honduras Finca Las Flores Honey

Honduras Finca Las Flores Honey

A microlot is generally defined as the highest quality beans of a harvest sorted out and sold separately. These beans then receive special honey-processing to bring out their full potential. So this small microlot won an award of recognition from the COMSA co-op, and they decided to allow the beans to be sold separately and traced back to the  "Finca Las Flores" farm. It is rare to get a honey processed coffee out of Honduras, which usually exports washed process beans. He produced 10 bags of this coffee. It is certified fair trade and organic and packed in a GrainPro bag at origin to preserve absolute freshness.

It has more body than an African coffee, but otherwise, a lot of similarities exist. It is nicely sweet and smooth -- a "soft" coffee that you can mindlessly sip at all day. The undertone has a bit of lemongrass, sort of a citrus twang, hint of cucumber --  but it's not intense, it's a subtle undertone. The overall coffee is mellow.

As espresso, it is creamy and fruity and ever so slightly tart, like a dash of cranberry. A lot of crema. You can drink a ton of these. You can blend it with something really intense like a Kenya or natural Ethiopia to make a fruity shot that isn't so sour and bright.

By definition, a honey coffee has had the sugars of the coffee fruit imbued into the pit during the processing, so it is a delicate bean that is susceptible to scorching. Home roasting units won't have a problem, but if you have a large drum roaster, don't preheat it above 350 degrees. Charging your drum too hot before dropping the beans into it will scorch them and ruin your batch. Once the roast is underway, nudge the heat up gently, evenly, get it through the 1st cracks, maybe wait 30-40 more seconds, let it out. If in doubt, err on the side of being too light. For coffee, we have an end temperature of our bean surface of 405 degrees farenheit which is a few degrees darker than we would roast a natural Ethiopian, but not anywhere close to 2nd cracks. As you get darker, its still nice, but it loses its undertones. As you get into the 2nd cracks the sugars burn and it loses its appeal altogether. Try to keep the roast at 15 minutes or less. We also turn the exhaust fan down towards the end which lets the smoke mingle with the beans and speeds up the roast without adding more flame.

US Arrival July 2023

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