Finca Santo-Domingo, Santa-Barbara, Honduras

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• Anonymous

  09 August 2014

  Finca Santo-Domingo is a High Altitude Coffee Plantation (+4000 feet elevation) which makes it one of the few in the Santa-Barbara that has the Strictly Hard Bean (SHB) designation. Coffee trees grow under the shade canopy of larger trees. Coffee trees produce their best beans when grown at high altitudes in a tropical climate where there is rich soil. This plantation produces a great variety of beans like Pacas, Caturra, Bourbon, Catuaí. Finca Santo-Domingo also produces Lempira beans – considered being a sub-variety of Catimor in Honduras. Honduras is one of the few countries with a capacity to grow their production, where as nations like Costa Rica and Panama are experiencing land pressure from other demands, and producing less and less coffee each harvest. Honduran coffees can range from bright, acidic flavor profiles, lightly fruited and with strong cane sugar sweetness, to more caramel-like, lower acidity coffees that are nice in espresso.

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