Sourcing Details: Relatively new to specialty coffee processing in western Honduras, Asociación de Productores de Café Certificados Chiliquera S.A (APROCACERCHIL) has quickly made a reputation that is turning heads.
The success starts with a well defined plan for centralizing the collective efforts of more than 170 member-producers. Processing Details: With a centralized wet-mill designed to receive cherries from all of its members, processing consistency is stellar.
The mill floats cherries using recycled water to remove less dense and damaged beans before depulping.
After depulping, coffee is washed with a demucilager, which uses very little water.
Washed parchment is placed on patios to pre-dry and then mechanically dried in horizontal dryers called guardiolas.
Furnaces burn recycled coffee parchment to heat the guardiolas.
Dried parchment is stored and milled in Corquin, which has mild weather conditions ideal for resting parchment and preparing coffee for export. Exporting Details: APROCACERCHIL has a fully staffed cupping lab equipped to cup through every lot and ensure consistent quality.
APROCACERCHIL has also worked collectively to establish a number of norms required for certification including organic certification.
APROCACERCHIL goes another step in centralizing efforts with an organic fertilizer production plant that uses coffee pulp as the base ingredient.
An average of 3,000 pounds of organic fertilizer is produced for every hectare of coffee production.
All of this work means producer-members can focus all of their attention on year-round farm management and picking the best cherry possible.
