Honduras Masaguara Sherry Low-temperature Fermentation

Tasting Note:  Chocolate | Vanilla Ice Cream | Whiskey

 Size:  200g/1kg

Brewing Recommendation: Filter Brews / Modern Espresso 

This is a high-grown Honduran coffee that drinks like dessert: a big scoop of vanilla ice cream up front, chocolate settling in underneath, and a warm whiskey finish right at the back. It's a Sherry Cask Low-temp Washed lot grown from Typica and Caturra at 1,400 to 1,700 metres, and the barrel is where that boozy tail comes from.

In the cup

Our house notes read vanilla ice cream, chocolate, and whiskey, and that's roughly the order you meet them. The vanilla leads, soft and creamy like soft-serve. Chocolate settles in underneath. Then, right at the back, that warm oaky whiskey hum. Dessert first, digestif last, all in one cup.

The varietals

It's grown from Typica and Caturra, two old classics of the coffee world. Typica is basically the great-granddad of Arabica: a tall, low-yielding plant that trades quantity for genuinely lovely cups at altitude. Caturra is a naturally dwarfed cousin of Bourbon from Brazil, compact, and a dependable high-grown performer right across Central America, Honduras included. Old-school genetics, high-altitude payoff.

How it's processed

Here's where the whiskey comes from. The cherries are washed clean first, then the coffee is aged in sherry casks at low temperature, which is exactly what the name "Sherry Cask Low-temp Washed" is telling you. Slow, cool, barrel-led fermentation like this tends to build boozy, oak-tinged, almost wine-like complexity, the same family of character that anaerobic (sealed, oxygen-free) and barrel processing are known for.

Where it grows

It comes from Honduras, grown high up between 1,400 and 1,700 metres. That kind of altitude ripens cherries slowly and concentrates their sweetness, part of why a straightforward washed coffee can still land this rich and creamy.

Add a bag online and meet a coffee with character that runs dessert up front to whiskey nightcap at the back.