Honduras Copan Hermanas Alvarado

This bold Honduran cup has a wide range of roast options.  At lighter roasts, find dense sweetness, and tart acidity, reminiscent of lemon hard candy, and a walnut aftertaste.  At darker roasts you'll drive off the acidity, and leave full creamy caramel, and toffee notes. The coffee's character is a testament to hard work and years of experience.  The Alvarado sisters inherited the farm from the grandfather who had planted the IH-90 variety, a rust resistant variety.  Recently Iris, and her sisters Ana Isabel and Lourdes have been replanting with Parainema a trendy new variety in Honduras prized for it's lime acidity, and rust resistance.  Iris has learned that picking the IH-90 more purple leads to deep sweetness, and full body.  The result of these women's experience was a 3rd place finish in this years "Te Van a Conocer Compa" a microlot competition started within their cooperative COCAFCAL in 2008, to discover and incentive the production of high quality microlots. Copan is in the