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Have you ever had coffee from Honduras? This Central American country, Honduras, is no less than several coffee varieties in the bean list of Qianjie Coffee, including Honduran Shirley Whiskey barrel-treated coffee, which is already familiar to Qianjie coffee fans, as well as Litchi Orchid Coffee and Sweet Orange Coffee. Honduran coffee is not only outstanding flavor, surprisingly, since 2011, Honduras began to produce more coffee than Guatemala, making it the largest coffee producer in Central America and one of the top 10 coffee producers in the world!

Where is the coffee mainly sold in Honduras?

Most of the Honduras coffee is sold to Europe, and it is very popular among Europeans. Germany is the main importer of Honduras coffee, importing nearly 40 million kilograms of Honduras coffee every year. Although some of the coffee from Honduras is sold to the United States and Japan, the sales are not as good as in Europe.

On the development of coffee in Honduras

In fact, Honduras coffee is not so smooth from the beginning, compared with other Central American countries: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, coffee development can be said to be very late.

This is mainly due to the lack of transportation construction connecting the origin and the port in Honduras, which has led to the slow start of the coffee industry in Honduras. However, after 1970, the government created an official organization for coffee: Instituto Hondure ñ o del Cafe (IHCAFE), which is dedicated to improving coffee quality. Coupled with the fact that coffee trees can be planted all over Honduras, the coffee production of Honduras surpassed that of Costa Rica and Guatemala in 2011!

However, Honduras is also facing the problems of leaf rust and global warming, which is a major problem in Honduras.

Flavor of coffee producing area in Honduras

Honduras has six major coffee producing areas, mainly located in the western and southern Copan, Opalaca, Montecillos, Comayagua, Agalta Tropical and El Paraiso, of which three are the main producing areas:

1. Montecius (Montecillos): the highest manor in Honduras, the coffee is bright and layered, full of rich fruit and sweet aromas with citrus aromas.

two。 Copan: the coffee beans of Koban are all chocolate flavor, mellow taste and high sweetness.

3. Agalta Tropical: the coffee beans in this area have a balance of honey sweetness and acidity, with chocolate tonality.

Generally speaking, Hongguo coffee alcohol thickness and sweetness are quite high, all fruit tone, but sometimes with nutty, taffy flavor, is quite multi-layered coffee.

Honduras Coffee grading

In the coffee in Honduras, the classification system is based on altitude and defect rate, in which the defect rate classification is divided into two standards: the United States and Europe, which is not explained here, but the elevation classification is as follows:

1.Strictly High Grown (SHG): over 1200 meters.

2.High Grown (HG): over 1000 meters.

3.Central Standard (CS): grow more than 600m above sea level.

In general, the data of a coffee bean will show both the elevation grade and the defect rate grade to show the grade of the coffee. In addition to this grading system, the recently held Fine Macro Coffee Competition in Honduras-Best Honduras Competition (BEST OF HONDURAS LATE HARVEST)

Best of Honduras Late Harvest was mainly organized by 2015 WBC world champion Sasa Sestic and his green bean team Project Origin, while the second session was held in 2018.

The purpose of this bid is to encourage farmers to produce high-quality coffee. Another factor is that the elevation of Honduras varies greatly, ranging from 1200 meters to 1700 meters. For example, in Santa Barbara producing areas, due to the high terrain, the berry ripening period is relatively late. Most Hongguo coffee production season is from January to April every year, while the harvest time of these high-altitude small farmers may be delayed to June or July. Missing the opportunity to participate in the annual Cup of Excellence Excellence Cup competition, Best of Honduras provides these late-harvested farmers with another opportunity to stand out in the boutique market and enable international buyers to interact directly with farmers face to face.

In addition to a very small part of the bid money that needs to be paid to the IHCAFE (Instituto Hondure ñ o del Caf é, IHCAFE) of the Honduras Coffee Association as local transportation infrastructure, R & D expenses, etc., small farmers can get almost full bid gold, which is really a far cry from the market price sold directly to local exporters, and it is nothing more than the most direct income and help for farmers!

Qianjie Coffee believes that the development potential of Honduras Coffee is very good, and through the competition, so that more coffee farmers can get a better income, so that they are more motivated to produce better quality coffee, which is a great positive cycle!