FrontStreet Coffee Honduras San Juan Xido No.1 Washed Bourbon Single Origin Specialty Coffee Beans Freshly Roasted

Honduras San Juancito Lot#1

Country: Honduras
Region: San Juancito
Altitude: 1450–1550 meters
Processing method: Washed
Variety: Bourbon
Processor: COMISAJUL cooperative
Flavor: Clean, roasted nuts, milk chocolate

San Juancito is a small village in central Honduras, about 40 kilometers northeast of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Together with Nuevo Rosario, Guacamaya, and Plan Grande, it belongs to the Francisco Morazán municipality and has a total population of roughly 1,400 people.

San Juancito was historically famous for its mineral deposits, but today it stands out for a different reason: it sits within the buffer zone of La Tigra National Park, a rainforest ecosystem and Honduras's first national park. The park acts as an enormous watershed, supplying drinking water to the capital's 500,000 residents.

Honduras lies in the tropics, so San Juancito barely sees any temperature variation through the year—"winter" is really just the rainy season, and "summer" the dry season. In tropical regions, altitude shapes temperature far more than when the rain falls. At 1,239 meters above sea level, San Juancito stays pleasantly cool all year: in summer (March–June) highs often reach about 26°C and lows average around 18°C, while in winter the average high is 20°C with lows near 14°C.

Today San Juancito's economy depends heavily on agriculture, mostly small-scale coffee production, and the local climate and altitude are ideally suited to growing high-quality beans. COMISAJUL, a cooperative of hundreds of smallholder farmers from across central Honduras, is based in San Juancito. Its members grow coffee on mountainsides at 1450–1550 meters, shaded by banana, avocado, and papaya trees. During harvest, farmers hand-pick only the ripe cherries, wash-process them, and lay them out to dry in the sun. The fermenting water left over from washing—laden with pulp and skin—is collected and reused as fertilizer for the coffee trees. The lot that results is very clean in the cup, with high sweetness, very mild acidity, and flavors of milk chocolate.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you like the clean, bright character of washed coffee, FrontStreet Coffee's washed Yirgacheffe Worka Cooperative lot is a natural next step: traditional washed processing brings out jasmine florals and lively citrus acidity with no trace of heavy bitterness, and after a medium-light roast it unfolds notes of green tea and honey—delicious as a pour-over, cold brew, or even espresso. For something rounder and more balanced, FrontStreet's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1—also washed, since Jamaica's shorter island sunshine made washing essential—shows pure hazelnut, cream, chocolate, and caramel in a cup where no single note overshadows the rest.