Cup of Excellence Honduras #10 Las Acacias - Washed Pacas

by Prodigal

This is Las Acacias, the 2025 Cup of Excellence #10 "Traditional" category winner. COE coffees are special, and this is our first such offering of 2025. We love this coffee's clean flavors of mango, cotton candy, and citrusy finish. The pacas variety is grown traditionally all across Honduras, hence the "traditional" category. We're also bundling this coffee in a box set with our "Exotic" #9 winner, Itacayo!  This small 2-hectare farm, located in the famed Santa Bárbara region of Honduras, is planted with 60% Pacas variety, 20% SL-28, and 20% geisha. This COE-winning lot underwent a single anaerobic fermentation step. The whole cherry fermented for 72-hours in a custom-built cold room, followed by depulping and thorough washing. The coffee dried for 18 days in a solar drier, with hand-sorting to remove defects.  Prior to coffee, Evin farmed vegetables, without much profit. In 2010 he began farming coffee based on advice from his father, an experienced coffee producer in his own right.