NEW!! Honduras Finca Vertical (Relationship Coffee)

Ariel Gomez started his coffee journey in 2015 when he started working with a coffee cooperative after graduating from college as an agronomist. He was hired in 2017 by Beneficio San Vicente in Peña Blanca Honduras and started his real specialty coffee journey helping small producers increase the quality of their microlot through sound and supportive agronomy management and practices. After a couple of years of supporting other farmers, he decided to purchase one hectare in 2019 to start his own farm and learn from the process himself. He planted Pacas, Pacamara, and a small plot of Geisha in 2021. There have been difficulties in this process but the purpose of the farm is for Ariel to really learn to move through these difficulties and increase quality and experiment with different processes to get fantastic coffee and also help support the producers he works with via Beneficio San Vicente.

Finca Vertical is Pacas, Pacamara, and Gesha and is a washed process. The cherries are picked at peak ripeness and carefully hand-selected in the afternoon, then, at the wet mil are de-pulped and put into the plastic barrels with hermetic sealing to ferment for 72 hours without water; when the mucilage is fermented, the parchment is rinsed into the concrete tank with a lot of water four times. Then the parchment is put on the patio (in San Vicente mill) to dry for 12 days approximately. This is Maquina's first year working with Ariel, but we are already looking forward to next year's harvest!