jute Honduran Coffee – 250g Ground Coffee

Jute coffee is ethically sourced from cooperatives around the globe that work to give farmers an income, opportunities and access to community resources, including educational and water projects.

Their 100% arabica coffee beans are roasted by hand at their small roastery in the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside and packaged in a unique environmentally-friendly jute pouch. Each pouch is made from at least 70% sugarcane (from waste from the sugarcane industry) and is in a jute colour that is easily recyclable.

This fantastic company not only make incredible coffee but also sponsor bee hives at a local charity called Workbridge that delivers vocational training – such as beekeeping – to people with mental illness, learning disabilities or brain injuries. They also sort out the chaff from their beans and give it to a local farmer for animal feed…lucky pigs!

Honduras is finally and deservedly making waves in the coffee world for its deliciously fruity beans – their flavours intensified by the remarkably high altitudes that the nation’s coffee is often grown at.

Coffee is about altitude – but it’s also about attitude, and at long last Honduras’ coffee farmers rightly have a bit of a swagger about them. Their deliciously fruity crop – think melon, apple, cherry, orange and peach – is finally making people sit up and take notice.

Not that Honduras is new to coffee – but the vast majority of its specialty varietals used to stay in the country, where a rudimentary infrastructure and exposure to natural disasters meant that export was long a pipe dream. It used to be difficult to buy Honduran coffee beans at all.

But things are finally looking up. And up and up, actually – some of Honduras’ beans grow at a mighty 1600 metres above sea level.  This means the coffee cherries ripen super slowly, condensing and intensifying their sheer fruitiness into a coffee with a flavour profile of gentle acidity and sweetness.

The jute Honduran coffee is produced by the Cooperativa Cafetalera Capucas Limitada (Cocafcal). Also known as Capucas, the cooperative works on the slopes of Honduras’ highest mountain – the Pico de Celaque. ‘Celaque’ translates as ‘box of water’ in the indigenous Lenca language and the region’s well-watered land helps the beans grow so wonderfully well. Cocafcal are part of the push to show the coffee world what Honduras can do and we’re glad to be working with a producer that does things the right way.

With giddying hits of caramel, cocoa and cherry, it’s lovely as a long black or with milk.

• 100% arabica
• Ethically sourced and hand-roasted