Fig Mood Espresso

Pedro “Pedrito” Moreno’s path to coffee excellence hasn’t been easy. His dad, Don Pedro, is a famous award-winning coffee producer from the highly decorated El Cedral Region in Honduras. In 2016, Pedro gave Pedrito two hectares of one of his amazing farms. Pedrito began managing the farm and it was an instant success - the coffee was amazing! But in the years that followed, Pedrito moved to Spain (for love, of course!) and that situation didn’t end well and resulted in Pedrito being highly indebted and on the brink of losing his farm.

His brothers and his dad really helped him out and allowed him to slowly crawl out of his financial woes. Inevitably the quality of the coffee from his farm dropped, which further complicated his personal and financial situation. Fear not! This story has a happy ending! 

In 2022, Pedrito began investing tons of time in the farm, aiming and improving quality and productivity and starting in 2023, the results began to show in the cup. This past year, the coffee improved once again, surpassing the quality levels once achieved by his dad in his heyday.

So why? What’s so special? Well, the farm he inherited from his dad happens to have the best kind of bourbon (variety of coffee). They are old-growth bourbon trees - and old-growth bourbon trees are the best kind of bourbon trees! These trees are definitely part of the magic of the Moreno coffee - most of the coffee from El Cedral comes from one of the Moreno’s but it’s the old bourbons that everyone salivates over. 

Pedrito learned the care of these amazing trees from his dad but in the coffee processing he took after his brother, Elvin. He had drifted away from the traditional fermentation and has opted for a double fermented anaerobic washed process. The extent of fermentation is light - ideal for his coffees - bringing to the forefront the fruit character of the coffee without introducing fermentation byproducts.

The result is a super sweet cup, nice fruit character but lots of caramel and chocolate to create a super interesting but round cup.