El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey

Ships within 1 week of your roast date. These beans hit their peak 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so there's no rush to brew.

A Cup of Excellence honey-process single origin from El Salvador

El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey is a light-roast, red honey processed single origin grown by Jorge Raul Rivera on Finca Santa Rosa in the Chalatenango Mountains. It is built for drinkers who love a clean, fruit-forward cup — bright pink grapefruit, deep concord grape and a soft rose lift over milk chocolate sweetness.

Tasting Notes

Rose · Concord Grape · Milk Chocolate · Pink Grapefruit
Medium-bodied and syrupy-sweet from the honey process, with juicy grape and grapefruit acidity and a long, chocolatey finish.

Coffee Details

About This Coffee

Finca Santa Rosa sits high in the northern Chalatenango Mountains, where producer Jorge Raul Rivera farms with a razor-sharp attention to detail. Each harvest is picked and dried in separate day lots, then cupped selection by selection to build a profile that best reflects the terroir and red honey processing of Santa Rosa. The result is one of El Salvador's most complex and consistently award-winning coffees.

Rivera's commitment runs deep: the same season these lots were selected, he went on to take first place in the Cup of Excellence, El Salvador's most prestigious coffee competition. That standard of quality and care is exactly why we're proud to roast Santa Rosa for Malaysian home brewers.

How to Brew El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey

This coffee shines as both filter and espresso. Use the recipes below as your starting points.

If the cup tastes sharp or thin, grind a little finer to draw out more sweetness; if it turns bitter, go slightly coarser.

How Much Coffee Is in a Bag?

The 283g bag brews roughly 19 filter cups (at 15g per cup) or around 16 espressos (at 18g per dose) — enough to live with this coffee across its 2-to-3-week peak window. The 2lb (907g) bag stretches to about 60 filter cups or 50 espressos, ideal if Santa Rosa has earned a permanent spot on your shelf. A Cup of Excellence-winning honey lot like this is a rare one to keep close.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this better as espresso or filter?
Both work beautifully. As filter it's bright and juicy, leading with grapefruit and grape; as espresso it pulls sweeter and rounder, with the milk chocolate and rose coming forward. Start with the recipes above and adjust to taste.

What does it taste like?
Clean and fruit-forward. Expect concord grape and pink grapefruit up front, a soft floral rose note, and a milk-chocolate sweetness through the finish. The red honey process gives it a syrupy, full body.

What makes this coffee special?
It's a single origin from Finca Santa Rosa, grown by Jorge Raul Rivera, who took first place in El Salvador's Cup of Excellence the same season these lots were selected. It's a genuinely award-level honey coffee.

How fresh will my coffee be?
We roast to order and ship within one week of your roast date. These beans are at their best 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so they'll be right in the sweet spot when they reach you.

Do you offer free shipping?
Yes. Free shipping within Malaysia on orders over RM80. Everything is roasted fresh in Kuala Lumpur.

Want to try before committing? Explore the Taster Box. Buying for an office or café? See Bulk & Office Orders.