ORGANIC Honduras Los Naranjos One Roast
ORGANIC Honduras Los Naranjos
Please note that this coffee will be roasted on Wednesdays, as it is ORGANIC.
Honduras has become a bigger origin for us over the last few years. Big-bodied coffees that are chocolatey and nutty are so popular. Building supply chains has become challenging, as commitments come at a high price for producers. I am excited to say that we may have found Honduras Los Naranjos, which is producing some great coffees. Hopefully, we can work with these guys for years to come. Long-term relationships are the bedrock of what this business is all about.
Country: Honduras
Co-op: Cafesmo
Farm: Los Naranjos (The Orange Tree)
Owners: The Mayorga Family
Region; Mercedes Hills, southern Honduras (close to El Salvador and Guatemalan borders)
Process: Fully washed
Farm Size 9 Hectares
Altitude: 1.300 – 1.550 mts
Varieties: Obata, Parainema, and IH-Café 90
Harvest: October, 2024 – March, 2025
Roast: One Roast, but it works as a developed filter or espresso.
Cup Potential:
Aromatics: Big Chocolate| Body Buttery| Acidity: Soft, relatively low and white grape|
Solid chocolate, white fruit sugars with a white grape/ citric finish.
Espresso
This brews like a traditional espresso roast. It cuts through milk so well that you could run this with oat or another alternative to dairy if you so wish.
From the biggest drink downwards:
9oz Milk-based drink: Black Treacle, brown sugars, tasty covetable cosie drink
6oz milk-based drink. Big depth of chocolate and cocoa.
Espresso: Dark chocolate, juicy fruit, and a long, lingering white winey acidity.
The Physical Espresso recipe :
Based on a brew temp of 94C
16g-18g ground coffee/34-6g espresso liquid in 28-34 seconds for milk-based drinks.
16-18g ground coffee/45-50g espresso liquid 28-32 seconds for espresso/ Americano
Farm Stuff.
Having finally found a single farm in Honduras, producing the volume and quality of organic coffee that we need, Sebastian kindly dropped in and went to quiz the Mayorga family about their family history. You can read the results here.
Cafesmo was formalised in 2016 and has grown in what and how they process coffee. Cafesmo is based in a large zone around the hills of Mercedes, located in the very south of Honduras, a stone’s throw from El Salvador and Guatemala. Our plantations are protected by some of the country’s highest peaks.
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