Pour-over Brewing Parameters for Honduras San Juan Cidro Lot 1 Washed Bourbon Specialty Coffee Beans

Pour-over Honduras Coffee Recipe

15 g of coffee, medium grind (Fuji ghost-tooth burr setting #4), V60 dripper, water at 88-89°C. First pour: 30 g of water for a 27-second bloom. Top up to 105 g and pause until the water level drops halfway, then pour slowly until the total reaches 225 g. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, total extraction time 2:00.

Coffee Information

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee
Ingredients: House-roasted
Shelf life: 30 days
Net weight: 227 g
Packaging: Bulk
Flavor: Mellow and aromatic
Coffee bean state: Roasted beans
Contains sugar: Sugar-free
Origin: Honduras
Coffee type: Other
Roast level: Medium roast

Honduras San Juancito Lot #1

Country: Honduras
Region: San Juancito
Altitude: 1450-1550 meters
Processing method: Washed

Because Honduras sits in the tropics, San Juancito sees relatively little temperature variation across the year. What counts as winter is really the rainy season, and what counts as summer is the dry season. In tropical regions, altitude shapes temperature more than the timing of rainfall. With the village itself at 1,239 meters above sea level, the air feels mildly cool all four seasons. During summer, from March to June, the high is usually around 26°C, with a low averaging about 18°C. In winter the average high is 20°C and the average low about 14°C.

San Juancito's modern economy rests largely on agriculture, most of it small-scale coffee production, and its climate and elevation are highly favorable for high-quality beans. COMISAJUL, a cooperative of hundreds of smallholder coffee farmers in central Honduras, is based here. Its members grow coffee on mountains at 1450-1550 meters, shaded by banana, avocado and papaya trees. During harvest they hand-pick ripe cherries, process them using the washed method and dry them in the sun. The fermented water carrying pulp and skins from washing is collected and used as fertilizer for the coffee trees. This lot has a very clean flavor, high sweetness and very gentle acidity, with milk chocolate notes.

Variety: Bourbon
Producer: COMISAJUL Cooperative

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

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

Flavor Profile

Flavor: Clean, roasted nuts, milk chocolate

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

A gently acidic, milk-chocolate washed coffee like this one is a natural fit for the V60. The dripper's cone shape and 60-degree angle force the water toward the center before it drips into the server, lengthening contact with the grounds so both aroma and flavor extract fully. Its single large hole lets the flow run freely, so the pace depends on your pouring control and shows up directly in the cup.

If you want to explore that pour-over style more, FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe Gedingding is an excellent starting point, with citrus, berry and floral notes and a green-tea sweetness that is soft and bright rather than sharp. For a sweeter, lower-acidity cup in the same vein as this Honduras lot, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Queen Estate brings nut, cocoa and caramel aromas with a rounded, smooth body that stays steady whether you brew it as a pour-over, in a moka pot or as espresso.