Theodore’s Coffee Roasters have five, yes, FIVE, fresh Honduran coffees in the current rotation and my friends in Michigan were generous enough to send samples of all five of them to me for review. This morning, I’m starting the week off with Victor Ventura’s La Fraternidad. Slurp!
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Theodore’s Coffee Roasters Honduras Lurvin-Pacas review
THEODORE’S COFFEE ROASTERS HONDURAS LA FRATERNIDAD
No time to read this review? I’ve drunk a ton (well, gallons, at least!) of Theodore’s Coffee Roasters’ coffee and it’s all good. LOL What else do you need to know? Theodore’s founder, Darwin Pavon, spent years working in Honduras collecting soil samples to help develop better fertilizers for coffee farms. In that time, Darwin, who is from Honduras himself, made the connections he would later use in his own coffee business and these relationships really show through the coffee. This morning’s selection is from Victor Ventura’s La Fraternidad farm in Honduras. This is a Pacamara variety grown around 1830masl and it’s the last year Victor is going to grow these gigantic Pacamara beans, so get them now or not at all! Victor is renewing the plantation with Bourbon and Geisha varieties moving forward. Pacamara is a hybrid of Pacas and Maragogype varieties, most noted for their absolutely huge size. I always love Pacamara coffees, if for no other reason, than their almost comical size (especially after drinking so many Ethiopian coffees with their relatively tiny beans and peaberries!).
Theodore’s gives us tasting notes of, “Caramel and fruity aromas, with hints of red apple, floral and sweet peach” for this coffee. I am using my standard pourover method of a 1:16 ratio of 28g of coffee to 450g of water in a notNeutral Gino dripper with Kalita 185 filters. My Handground grinder is set to three and last, but certainly not least, I use Third Wave Water in all my brewing. The aroma on this cup features lots of caramel and brown sugar notes, promising something sweet for my palate. The first few sips prove this to be true. This is a medium-heavy bodied coffee with a lot of apple sweetness and caramelized sugars in the flavor. It’s almost like the caramel apple of the coffee world!
The roast level on this coffee is a solid medium with just a little roastiness on my palate. Mainly, though, this roast gives a lot of sugar development, a theme that carries through all of Theodore’s coffees, which I always find super sweet and lovely to drink. There is a lot of lighter caramel in the flavor as well as some dark, not-quite-burned sugars on the periphery. I’m finding a lot of apple flavors in this coffee, too, mostly like red Fuji or Gala sort of clean, sweet notes. I get some green apple and a healthy citrus pop of acidity from this cup, too. It’s lemony, but not full-on lemon… I’m getting even a hint of grapefruity notes from the cup, too.
Another really interesting cup from Honduras and Theordore’s! As the cup cools there is a hint of baking spices and this takes on a Christmasy, holiday vibe considering we’re just about upon that season. Spiced apples are definitely an image coming to mind as I enjoy this coffee. What a great bean from Victor Ventura and roasting from Theodore’s!