Connecting Roasters with Growers
Benchmark Coffee Traders work closely with Farm to Roast imports, founded and led by Christopher Griffin, to source top-grade relationship green coffee beans from Honduras.
Farm to Roast’s philosophy is to connect roasters with small and medium sized farms. They give new depth to relationship coffee by highlighting the stories of the farms, growers, and their families who work tirelessly to produce these unique Honduran coffee beans. Much like Benchmark’s wholesale green coffee bean partnerships, they seek to educate and foster a coffee community that cares about each person in the coffee supply cycle.
Through travels to origin and connections in America, Chris has developed relationships with cooperatives and individual farmers. As a traceability-focused importer, Farm to Roast brings some beautiful Honduras green coffee beans to the table for roasters who choose to source through relationships.
Honduras Green Coffee Bean Offerings
The Benchmark team is so excited to make available this small, super premium selection of our favorites from this year’s harvest. These farms belong to the Marcala growing region, an Appalachian in southwestern Honduras that produces coffee known for its distinctive profile, delineated by notes of rich cocoa, bright orange and tropical, candy-like fruit. These are very small farms and the supply is extremely limited. While each of these lots provide, in themselves, a singular sense experience, they all point towards the community of Marcala.
Request a sample of Benchmark’s premium Honduras green coffee beans.
Farm: Finca Las Rosas
Farmer: Don Dimas
Location: La Peñita, La Paz, Honduras
MASL: 1550
Varieties: Catuai, Lempira
Notes: Prominent, fruit-forward aromatics of navel orange and coffee cherry. Crisp, juicy yellow plum, smooth middling notes of caramel and finishes with a touch of orange zest.
Farm: Jerusalen
Farmer: Dionisio Cruz Mendoza
Location: Guajiquiro
MASL: 1700
Varieties: Yellow and Red Catuai, Typica
Notes: Clean, bright, complex. This cup is defined by rich aromatics of blackberry cobbler, followed by crisp notes of apricot, butterscotch, white grape juicy fruit gum.
Farm: Finca Jazmin
Farmer: Nancy Hernandez
Location: Trapiche, Chinacla, Honduras
MASL: 1550
Varieties: Catuai, Bourbon
Notes: Intensely sweet, berry jam-like aromatics. Effervescent, sparkling cup profile studded with clean, punchy tart acid structure featuring a wash of flavors from watermelon, zinfandel grape, and jasmine blossom.
Farm: Mujale (Women-Owned Coop)
Location: Chinacla, Márcala, Santa Ana, and Guajiquiro
MASL: 1500-1700
Varieties: Mixed
Notes: Soft, buttery mouthfeel; warm, broad malic acid structure with candied apricot, brown sugar, yellow apple.
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