Coffee Description
This clean, easy-drinking coffee presents a pleasant sweetness with notes of strawberry and purple fruits intermingled with rich milk chocolate. Creamy and rounded in body with a balanced acidity, black currant, florals, and vanilla show up in the lingering aftertaste.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1600 masl
Region
Lempira
About José Tobias Barrera of Honduras
Finca El Tigre is owned by José Tobias Barrera, a second-generation coffee grower whose family has been planting and cultivating coffee since 1980. Together with 5 permanent employees and around 18 seasonal workers, Don José works to coax the best out of his trees. He uses detailed soil analysis, fertilizes twice a year (June and October), and employs manual weed control, strategic pruning, and shade management in order to control insects and Roya.
This dedication to quality continues in the daily harvesting of ripe cherries December through March. Each day-lot is processed at an on-site wet mill, and then patio dried. In addition to 14 hectares of coffee trees, Finca El Tigre’s 25 total hectares are also home to trees such as Ingas, pines, and native silvestres, as well as various birds, wild guinea pigs, and local squirrels.
Lempira, Honduras
Square One Coffee
Since 2007, Square One Coffee has become a nationally known name in specialty coffee, wholesaling to quality-focused shops up and down the east coast, and opening two retail locations in Philadelphia (2012 & 2014). Owners Josh and Jess Steffy and their talented team of coffee professionals take their passion for people and coffee seriously. This means partnering with coffee producers and communities, paying premium prices for their hard work and reinvesting into those communities whenever possible. It also means paying all of their employees a living wage with opportunities to learn and grow in their craft.
