Cup of Excellence Honduras #10 Las Acacias - Washed Pacas

Roasted to order and shipped within 1 week of your roast date. This light roast is at its peak 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so give it a few days to rest before you brew.

A Cup of Excellence single origin from Honduras, built for bright, fruit-forward filter

Las Acacias is a washed Pacas single origin from the Santa Bárbara region of Honduras, and a 2025 Cup of Excellence winner in the Traditional category. Light roasted in Kuala Lumpur for pour-over and other filter methods, it is for drinkers who love a clean, juicy, expressive cup. Expect mango, orange and a soft cotton candy sweetness.

Tasting Notes

Mango · Orange · Cotton Candy
Light-bodied and clean, with juicy stone-fruit sweetness, a bright citrus lift and a candied, lingering finish.

Coffee Details

About This Coffee

This is Las Acacias, the 2025 Cup of Excellence #10 winner in the Traditional category. Cup of Excellence is one of coffee's most rigorous competitions, where a national jury and international judges score the very best lots a country produces in a given year. A top-ten placing puts this coffee among the finest Honduras grew that season.

The farm is a small two-hectare plot in the famed Santa Bárbara region. This winning lot went through a single anaerobic fermentation: whole cherries fermented for 72 hours in a custom cold room, then were depulped, thoroughly washed, and dried for 18 days in a solar drier, with the beans hand-sorted to remove defects. The Pacas variety is grown traditionally across Honduras, which is what earns the lot its Traditional category.

Behind the cup is Evin. Before coffee he farmed vegetables with little to show for it, then took up coffee in 2010 on the advice of his father, an experienced producer. By 2013 he had placed 12th in the Cup of Excellence, and his reputation has grown steadily ever since. We are proud to bring his work to Malaysian home brewers.

How to Brew Las Acacias

If the cup tastes thin or sour, grind a little finer to draw out more sweetness; if it turns bitter or astringent, grind coarser. As a light roast, this coffee shines on filter rather than espresso.

How Much Coffee Is in a Bag?

At roughly 15g per filter brew, a 150g bag makes about 10 cups, a 500g bag about 33 cups, and a 1kg bag around 65 cups. A Cup of Excellence lot like this is produced in tiny quantity and rarely reaches Malaysia, so every cup is a chance to taste a coffee that placed among the best in its country for the year.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this coffee better for espresso or filter?
Filter. It is light roasted to highlight its mango, orange and cotton-candy character, which comes through best in pour-over, V60, AeroPress or batch brew. You can pull it as a light espresso, but filter is where it sings.

What does Las Acacias taste like?
Clean and juicy. The headline notes are mango and orange with a candied, cotton-candy sweetness. It is light-bodied with bright citrus acidity and a sweet, lingering finish.

What makes a Cup of Excellence coffee special?
Cup of Excellence is a national competition that scores a country's best lots each year. This coffee placed #10 in Honduras's 2025 Traditional category, so it is a genuinely award-winning microlot rather than an everyday single origin.

How fresh is it?
We roast to order and ship within one week of your roast date. Light roasts like this are at their best 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so rest the beans a few days before brewing for the sweetest cup.

Do you offer free shipping?
Yes. Free shipping within Malaysia on orders over RM80. Your beans are roasted fresh in Kuala Lumpur and sent straight to your door.

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