Osman Rosado 100H Gesha Honduras

We are so excited to feature the first of many coffees from an up and coming Honduran producer, Osman Rosado.

Osman’s first venture into specialty coffee started when his mother grew and sold specialty grade coffees to San Vicente in 2018, an exporting company run by the Paz family in Santa Barbara, Honduras. After witnessing his mother’s success with San Vicente, he decided to buy his own farm and planted coffee trees that same year.

After careful cultivation of his coffee plantation, he managed to emulate his mother and experienced success from selling his coffees to San Vicente as well. Osman has since produced coffee for four years, starting from his first harvest in 2022. Even though Osman is a small producer with only 1000kg of green coffee production a year, he has been gradually gaining traction for the high quality coffees he produces.

His coffees come from two farms, a 0.5 hectare Gesha plantation and a 0.5 hectare Parainema plantation. Even though Osman’s Gesha farm only makes up 20% of his total annual production, he is proud of his work at the farm as he took a risk to plant Geshas when everyone told him that the altitude and microclimate was not suitable for the varietal.

Osman mainly does most of the post-harvest work himself. Every day during harvest, he transports cherries to his wet mill located outside his house, to depulp, process and dry. As such, he has developed a keen understanding of his coffees and is able to make informed decisions on the type of processing methods to carry out for each lot.

For this particular Gesha lot, he carried out his usual post-harvest protocol of first floating ripe cherries in a tank to remove the floaters, and then placed in a plastic bags for an anaerobic fermentation. He usually does this step for 72 hours, however he made a decision to extend the fermentation to 100 hours for this lot to bring out more flavours. As a result, this coffee exhibits a round and juicy mouthfeel, reminding us of red berries and plum, with a honey like sweetness.

We are honoured to be able to share Osman’s story with you and we can’t wait to share more coffees from him soon.