Honduras
Erin Moreno Honey
Erin Moreno Honey
A sweet and ripe honey Parainema, produced by Erin Moreno in the Santa Barbara region of Honduras.
About
Coffee Expression This honey process lot showcases ripe stone fruit, alongside a deep toffee sweetness.
Producer Erin’s whole family work in coffee, he inherited his land from his father, Pedro, who still works on the farm at 90 years old.
Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso
Technical Data
Producer Erin Moreno
Region Santa Barbara
Altitude 1500 masl
Varietal Parainema
Process Honey
Harvest April 2024
Brewing Advice
Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm.
Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.
We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.
Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.

Erin Moreno
The Moreno family have been growing excellent quality coffee for years. Erin’s father Pedro was one of the first producers to enter the specialty coffee market in Santa Barbara, founding the coffee industry in the town of El Cedral, where the family is still based. Pedro still works on the farms occasionally, even at 90 years old. Erin inherited this plot of the farm from Pedro, initially planted with Catimor. However, after witnessing the success of Paraneima on other parts of the farm, Erin chose to replant the entire plot soon after he took over.
Parainema is a native Honduran varietal, created in response to a nematode outbreak in the mid 80’s. The Honduran Coffee Institute carefully selected from strains of Sarchimor hybrids, looking for nematode resistance, while maintaining positive attributes in the cup and a degree of disease resistance.
The varietal is known to bring a heavy silky body and some slight herbal notes to the cup, alongside a notable bean size and length. We feel the varietal characteristics are clear here, with fresh floral aromas followed by a crisp and juicy acidity. The anaerobic pre-fermentation highlights this acidity, while adding layers of complexity, especially in the finish. The herbal Parainema character softens into an almost tea-like dryness in the finish, bringing an excellent balance to the cup. To achieve this, Erin sealed Paraneima cherries in plastic bags for 48 hours, kick starting fermentation, pushing for the generation of lactic acid bacteria. From here, a more traditional washed protocol was followed, de-pulped, fermented in tanks for 18 hours, then washed with clean water several times before drying.
We’ve visited Erin and his family in El Cedral several times. He explained his decisions in farming, having stopped using pesticides and chemical fertilisers around 10 years ago, like many in the area. This year, a major struggle was finding labour to help with farm tasks. Many young people have left the area to find better opportunities, especially after a 2020 hurricane wrought havoc on several communities in Santa Barbara. Even Erin’s son has moved to the US, sending money home from his job as a truck driver.
We purchased all of the Parainema that Erin produced this year, for the first time also in a honey process this year, with ripe stone fruit and toffee notes.
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