Honduras Damian Chavez - Washed

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With our Best Friend’s Club producers, we are committed to ensuring all of a producer’s coffee finds a home each year, and to provide additional financial support by directly sending additional money for every bag of coffee we sell. More importantly, it is about working with producers through highs and lows, allowing us to support each other, and grow together. 

Region: Santa Barbara

The Santa Barbara region of Honduras is a mountainous landscape in northwestern Honduras. Damian’s coffee comes to us from an area of the mountain called El Cedral, and his position on the mountain makes it an ideal place to grow coffee. On either side of his farm are the farms of William Guzman, Wilson Morales, and Benjamin Paz. William Guzman has an exclusive partnership with our friends at Dune Coffee in Santa Barbara, CA and Wilson Morales is another Cat & Cloud Best Friend’s Club producer. When we visit, it feels like a little slice of home away from home. Coffee from Santa Barbara has a diverse flavor profile, but typically has a common thread of stone fruit and sweet caramel. 

Processing method: Washed

Damian processed this coffee with his typical washed process method which has produced fantastic coffees over the past few years. The coffee is first depulped, before being fermented in water for 16-24 hours. From there the coffee is washed in a 2-3 hour agitated washing process. Once the mucilage is fully washed from the seeds, the coffee is laid out to dry on cement patios.