The Copán Department of Western Honduras, a historically prominent area for the ancient Mayan civilization, is known for its fine cigars, tobacco, and of course, coffee. Here you can find Beneficio Santa Rosa de Copan, a dry mill and exporter working with small community cooperatives to produce specialty coffee and connect them to international markets.
Beneficio Santa Rosa was founded in 2005 with the intent of helping facilitate the exportation of high-quality coffee from western Honduras. Since then, they have continuously worked with various smallholder farmers, regional producer groups, associations, and cooperatives to promote specialty coffee in the region. For Beneficio Santa Rosa, coffee quality is the focus, and traceability is the method of ensuring it, for each lot is tagged so it can be traced back to its origin.
This organic certified lot of coffee is sourced from several small community cooperatives and processed by Beneficio Santa Rosa. Grown in soils rich with clay minerals, a building block for organic matter, these coffees showcase the rich quality potential present in Honduras. The pleasantly clean final cup is an ode to the hard work put in by the small-holder cooperatives and Beneficio Santa Rosa to bring this coffee to life.
