Honduras San Juan Sitio 1 Washed Bourbon Specialty Coffee Bean Grind and Roast Level Processing

Honduras San Juancito Lot#1

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee

Address: No. 10, Bao'an Qianjie, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Contact: 020-38364473

Ingredients: In-house roasted

Shelf Life: 30 days

Net Weight: 227g

Packaging: Bulk

Taste: Mellow and aromatic

Bean State: Roasted coffee beans

Sugar Content: Sugar-free

Origin: Honduras

Coffee Type: Other

Roast Level: Medium roast

Coffee Origin Details

Country: Honduras

Region: San Juancito

Altitude: 1450-1550 meters

Processing Method: Washed

Because Honduras lies in the tropics, San Juancito sees only small temperature swings across the year. What passes for winter is really the rainy season, and summer is the dry season - in the tropics, altitude matters more for temperature than the calendar. Sitting at 1,239 meters above sea level, San Juancito feels slightly cool in every season. In summer (March-June) the daily high often reaches around 26°C while lows average about 18°C; in winter the average high is 20°C with lows around 14°C.

San Juancito's modern economy rests largely on agriculture - most of it small-scale coffee. Its climate and altitude are highly favorable for quality beans. COMISAJUL, a cooperative of hundreds of small coffee farmers in central Honduras, is based here. Its member farms grow coffee on mountains at 1,450-1,550 meters, shaded by banana, avocado, and papaya trees. Through harvest season, farmers hand-pick ripe fruit, which is then washed and sun-dried; the fermentation water bearing coffee pulp and skin is collected and used as fertilizer for the trees. This batch tastes very clean, with high sweetness, very gentle acidity, and milk chocolate flavor notes.

Variety: Bourbon

Processor: COMISAJUL Cooperative Organization

San Juancito is a small village in central Honduras, 40 kilometers northeast of the capital, Tegucigalpa. The town belongs to the Francisco Morazán municipality, which also includes Nuevo Rosario, Guacamaya, and Plan Grande, with a combined population of roughly 1,400.

Historically known for its mineral deposits, San Juancito is now celebrated for sitting inside the buffer zone of La Tigra National Park - a rainforest ecosystem and Honduras' first national park. The park doubles as a massive watershed, supplying drinking water to 500,000 residents of the capital.

Flavor Profile: Clean, roasted nuts, milk chocolate

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

This Honduran lot is a textbook washed coffee, and washing is exactly what makes it taste this way. The washed method uses water to carry the fruit through float sorting, pulping, soaking and fermenting to strip the mucilage, rinsing or further soaking, then drying and hulling. The long immersion triggers chemical changes inside the bean and burns through much of its simple sugars (fructose and glucose), lowering sugar content while raising organic acids - so washed coffees preserve more of the bean's own aroma while showing bright fruit acidity, cleanliness, and freshness. No wonder this cup reads clean, sweet, and gently acidic.

If San Juancito's clarity wins you over, FrontStreet Coffee's Worka (Guodingding) Cooperative Yirgacheffe is the washed style at its most refined. The Worka team at Yirgacheffe's southeastern tip processes with seasoned skill, and because the pulp is removed before drying, the coffee's own character reads clean and transparent: jasmine florals and vivid citrus acidity that unfold into green tea and honey after a medium-light roast. It suits pour-over, cold brew, and espresso alike.

For washed fruit turned all the way up, FrontStreet Coffee's Kenya Cherry Tomato runs Kenya's famous double washed fermentation - the washing steps performed twice - to squeeze out maximum juiciness: cherry tomato, dark plum, snow pear, black plum, and yellow sugar over a clean, pure frame. And when balance rather than brightness is the goal, FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 shows washing in service of harmony: hazelnut, cream, chocolate, and caramel with nothing sticking out and nothing missing - proof that washed processing, in skilled hands, can deliver any flavor a drinker could want.