Honduras El Milagro SL28

This is the eleventh year in a row that we have purchased coffee from Anibal Pineda’s farm, El Milagro. This coffee comes to us through a collaboration with Beneficio San Vicente, a coffee mill established by the Paz family in the town of Peña Blanca, Santa Barbara, a coffee growing region that regularly places winning coffees in the Honduras Cup of Excellence competition. Some of this success is due to the work of Benjamin, Arturo and David Paz who mill and grade many of these winning coffees. Beneficio San Vicente plays an important role by assisting growers with the export of their coffee and offering technical assistance and financing. Helping the farmers determine the quality potential of their coffee is especially important; it helps growers decide if it is worthwhile to spend scarce resources on improving quality for the specialty market. In Anibal Pineda’s case that hard work has clearly paid off.

After experiencing abnormal climate conditions that caused small harvests over the past couple of years, Anibal made the decision to replant much of his farm with the coveted SL28 variety. This lot represents the first harvest from these new trees, and we are excited to share the results with you. This SL28 variety lot is extremely limited, so be sure to try it while you can!

We treasure our relationships in the global coffee community and invest in projects at origin to support our partners in their commitment to environmental sustainability and social welfare. We also invest in reducing our day-to-day impact, through initiatives like energy-efficient Loring Smart Roasters to reduce carbon emissions per batch by 80%.

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