Moises Hidardo Hernandez- Pacas – Honey Enzymes + Chardoney #30 – Cascaritas Farm

Delmy Hernandez is a third generation coffee producer, and has taken over the production at Finca Cascaritas since the passing of her husband, and now her son Moises Hidardo Hernandez has begun taking over the reins at both Finca Cascaritas and CAFESMO. Pivoting to Micro-lots in 2015, Delmy and Hidardo have built a solar dryer with three layers of African beds, in which they can develop a time, temperature and humidity controlled process to drying coffee. Finca Cascaritas produces 60% washed and 40% natural and honey processes for their larger micro-lots, and also produces smaller scale anaerobic and Carbonic Maceration lots.

Moises states the following – "Although I currently work in various positions, my entire life is built around coffee. It started in my crib, as I was born a fourth generation coffee farmer. But I am also the initiator of Cafesmo, I develop various aspects of our organization, and my fiancée and I own a specialty coffee shop where we serve single origin coffee and Honduran fine cacao in the town of Santa Rosa de Copán. Until this day though, I feel happiest when I wake up with a freshly brewed cup of coffee in V60 and then walk to my finca, which is only two minutes from my home, to check how the newest plants are faring, or to manage the farm. In the evenings, around sunset, when I sit on our patio with a cup of coffee, I’m often inspired, looking over the valley all the way to Chalatenango in El Salvador, which is only a few miles from my house. I like to think about the details and specs of every micro-lot. I’ve been preparing micro-lots since 2015 and I love to experiment. With new or barely known varietals, with processes, especially anaerobic fermentation and different types of bags or tanks. Sometimes this leads to very pronounced, even radical flavor patterns, extremely fruity, tropical, effervescent or with hints of sweet grape and red wine!"