SUN Santa Rosa Dark Roast Fairtrade - coffee beans - 1 kilo

This coffee comes from Honduras. Around the year 1700 the Spanish brought coffee plants from the region of Ethiopia to Honduras. These days around 13 million kilos of speciality, organic or Fairtrade coffee are produced there every year, from which SUN selects the best lots.

The beans are picked in three to five rounds, washed with clear water and one hundred percent sun dried. They then go to SUN in Zaandam, where they are roasted in their own roastery according to the slow roast process.

No, this is regular coffee with caffeine. In the description you can read that part of the harvest from Honduras has its caffeine removed naturally with water and carbon, but that does not apply to this dark roast.

If you are looking for caffeine free coffee, choose a coffee that has decaf or caffeine free in the product name.

The dark roast is an espresso roast and is therefore intended for espresso, ristretto and cappuccino. It has a full aroma and a slightly sweet, mild taste that gives a good balance in your cup.

There is also a medium roast of the Santa Rosa. A darker roasted bean gives a fuller and more robust cup with less acidity, while a medium roast stays lighter and fresher. You get whole beans in a 1 kilo pack, so you grind them yourself in your bean to cup machine or espresso grinder.

This coffee is Fairtrade certified and carries the European organic label with the code NL-BIO-01. Fairtrade stands for fair trading conditions and a minimum price for the farmers.

NL-BIO-01 is the code of the body that monitors organic certification in the Netherlands. The addition non-EU agriculture indicates that the coffee was grown outside the European Union, in this case in Honduras.

Store the beans cool, dark and well sealed, for example in the original bag with the closure shut or in an airtight storage tin. Do not put coffee in the fridge, because it absorbs moisture and odours there.

With a one kilo bag we advise decanting a small amount into a tin for daily use each time and keeping the rest closed. That way the aroma of the beans stays intact for longer.