Honduras Jose Cruz Rodriguez

This is a microlot of washed-process coffee from a Honduras farmer which is part of the COMSA Fair Trade Organic co-op. We bought his crop because it won an award as being one of the best washed coffees that the co-op grew this year. My favorite way to roast it is almost to the 2nd cracks — this is where you find the milk chocolatey, slight grape, slight apple, buttery smoothness that Honduras is known for, but with hints of lemon, and a drying sensation in your mouth like eating an almond. You can take to the 2nd cracks, but it loses its character and just becomes a Central American flat coffee. And anything darker than that turns into ashy tastes pretty quickly.

Unroasted Honduran beans often do not store as well as most coffees. Potentially this lot will hold up longer because it was processed with such care and attention, packed in a grainpro bag, and were high quality beans to start with, but the typical rule of thumb is to roast Honduras coffee within 6 months.

US Arrival July 2022