Honduras Beneficio Santa Rosa Top Tier Alcides Banegas Grainpro

Coffee Background

Beneficio Santa Rosa is the powerhouse of western Honduras, boasting one of the most state-of-the-art dry mill operations in all of Central America. It starts with location. Santa Rosa de Copan has mild weather conditions, which makes for an ideal warehouse location for resting parchment and preparing coffee for export. Copan is the second largest growing region in Honduras, which means Beneficio Santa Rosa is well situated to receive coffee from many excellent sources. Most importantly, Beneficio Santa Rosa has a fully staffed cupping lab equipped to cup through thousands of samples and identify the potential for every coffee that is received. So it should be no surprise that Beneficio Santa Rosa has delivered an exceptional number of “Top Tier” micro-lots for Royal this season.

Alcides Banegas cultivated and harvested this micro-lot on his 20-acre farm called La Reina located in Subirana a community within the municipality of Yoro in the Department of Yoro, Honduras. In addition to coffee Alcides and his three-member family cultivate avocadoes, oranges and corn. Alcides uses his own micro-mill to process harvested cherries, which allows for meticulous care in sorting, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee.