Marcala

Honduras - La Paz - Marcala - Bryan Bautista - Catuai - Red honey

CROP 2025/2026 See coffee details

SCA score86.5

Aromatic notes

floralblackberrydried fruithazelnuthoneygreen

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History and traceability

The story

Finca Adolfo's takes its name from three generations sharing the same name: grandfather Adolfo, father Adolfo, and Bryan Adolfo. This tradition — giving sons their father's name — is a Central American cultural practice that expresses family pride, belonging, and the continuity of lineage. It is not just a shared name: it is the transmission of values, knowledge, and tradition from father to son, generation after generation. The farm has around 50 years of coffee production history, with one manzana of protected forest preserving a natural spring that Bryan maintains as a nature reserve.

What makes him singular:

The synthesis of tradition and innovation: deeply rooted in his grandparents' legacy, yet fully committed to experimenting with processing, varieties, and anaerobic fermentation to create more complex and distinctive profiles.
Remarkable varietal diversification: starting from Lempira alone, he now cultivates Red and Yellow Catuai, Red and Yellow Bourbon, Pacamara, Parainema, Gesha, and Lempira.
Concrete environmental stewardship: he maintains a protected forest with a natural spring as a nature reserve, recognizing environmental balance as a core part of long-term farming.

Relationship with Belco: We started working with Bryan last year.

Shared values with Belco:

Long-term vision and generational building — exactly the kind of project Belco believes in.
Innovation with roots: he experiments without losing sight of tradition and quality.
Environmental responsibility as real practice, not just certification.

A third-generation producer born in 1994 in Marcala, La Paz. He inherited the farm from his parents after graduating from university and has transformed it from a single-variety Lempira plot into a 26-hectare farm with multiple specialty varieties and experimental processing.

Why we selected it:

Very sweet cup with nuts, accompanied by berry sweetness and floral notes — a very complex cup.

Our notes:

What I loved: A very sweet cup with nuts, berries, and floral notes — genuinely complex.
Must-try because: The complexity — sweetness, nuts, berries, and florals all in one cup.