Honduras Beneficio San Vicente
Honduras Beneficio San Vicente
Farm Description
This coffee is from the mill (beneficio) called San Vicente in the town of Pena Blanca, Santa Barbara district, West Honduras. This is from a variety of smallholder farms that the mill buys coffee parchment from, but are too small to separate as lots. The farmers who supply coffee represent the coffee growing areas of Cielito, Las Flores, and El Cedral. These areas have been producing some amazing coffees in the past, super sweet, with fruit-forward cup character.
This coffee is part of our Farm Gate pricing program.Cupping Notes
There are some sweet rose and melon notes in the dry aromatics with hints of guava and orange peel. The darker roasts show more cocoa, but still with the guava underscore. The wet aroma has coriander sweet spice, grape juice, and caramel biscuit while the biscuit is more molasses cookie at FC and FC+. It's very nice, a round and sound cup! This isn't the brassy, tightly wound acidity found in many coffees from Honduras that have more lime and tamarind notes. Light roasts have the best tropical fruit sweetness which is subtle at first but then intensifies with guava, strawberry, hints of passion fruit, and orange marmalade. At Full City a tangy roast bittersweet overlays the fruit, providing a rindy and brisk accent to the cup, finishing with orange spirit bitters and coriander seed. The roast taste is caramelly, pairing well to the viscous body. The sweetness lasts on the palate throughout the long aftertaste. So nice at such a wide range of roasts, and not a tricky coffee to roast at all.

