Honduras La Cruz Lot 2 Natural Single Origin Coffee Beans

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Fredy Diaz is a fourth-generation producer in the hills of Ojojona, and he likes to push things. In his words: "I love to experiment." For Lot 2 he picked only ripe red cherries, sorted them by Brix, then sank them whole into a tank of mosto - the living liquid drawn from previous ferments - for 120 hours. Then 29 days drying on raised beds. Now the fun part. We are tasting: Blueberry, Chocolate, Plum and Berry. Loud as filter, deep and jammy as espresso, and it holds its own in milk.

Coffee profile
  • Origin: Honduras
  • Region: Payaguare, Ojojona, Francisco Morazán
  • Farm: Finca La Cruz
  • Producer: Fredy Diaz
  • Process: Natural, 120hr anaerobic mosto fermentation
  • Varietal: Catuai
  • Altitude: 1,650 masl
  • Recipe: 22g in -40g out. 32 seconds. 94C

Honduras Single Origin Coffee

Processing Details:
o Only ripe red cherries picked, selected by Brix
o Hand sorting to remove under- and over-ripe cherries
o Whole cherries submerged in an anaerobic tank of mosto - the living liquid drawn from previous ferments
o Fermented for 120 hours
o Dried slowly on raised beds inside temperature-controlled solar dryers for 29 days

Producer Fredy Diaz checking cherry Brix with a refractometer at Finca La Cruz, Honduras

Honduras La Cruz Lot 2: Fredy Diaz, Finca La Cruz

Fredy Diaz has been at this since he was 14. Fourth generation, still learning, still pulling things apart to see how they work.

Finca La Cruz sits in the highlands of Ojojona, named for the concrete cross built at the farm's highest point in 1961. It has been a local landmark ever since.

Fredy came to Project Origin through the Cafe Raga team, who give him technical support and cupping feedback on every lot. That is how an experiment like this one - 120 hours submerged in mosto, 29 days on the beds - gets pushed this far without falling over.

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