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Honduras Anaerobic Washed by Celia Portillo
Honduras Anaerobic Washed by Celia Portillo
WHOLE BEAN COFFEE
Tastes Like: Toasted Caramel, Orange Marmalade, Sparkling Cider
This is our second offering from Celia Portillo but this time it's in the form of a washed anaerobic. It’s lively, vibrant, and unapologetically bold. From the first sip, you’ll notice layers of sweetness, a juicy brightness, and a depth that keeps you intrigued. A coffee that keeps things interesting.
This lot comes from Celia Portillo in the highlands of Comayagua, Honduras. It’s a meticulously processed, anaerobic washed Bourbon grown at 1,750 masl and handled with care from harvest through slow, raised-bed drying. The result is a clean, composed cup that reflects Celia’s precision and pride in her craft: quietly confident, never dull, and easy to enjoy any time of day.
This release also represents meaningful progress at origin. Celia chose to move away from selling to intermediaries and invested in processing to parchment for specialty, work that demands more time and discipline, and that earns a better return for her farm and family.
Read more about Celia and her washed anaerobic below.
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Coffee Specs
| Tastes Like | Toasted Caramel, Orange Marmalade, Sparkling Cider |
| Origin | Honduras |
| Region |
Pichingo, Comayagua |
| Farm | La Pacaya |
| Process | Anaerobic Washed |
| Varietal(s) | Bourbon |
| Altitude | 1,750 MASL (metres above sea level) |
| Brew Method | Filter + Espresso |
| Roast Profile | Medium Roast |
| Import Partner | Semilla Coffee Inc. in Montreal, Canada |
About the Producer: Celia Portillo
Celia Portillo's journey is closely tied to Jesús Galeas, a family member and field technician (IHCAFE) who has helped local smallholders in the Montecillos range improve post-harvest quality and yields. With his support, Celia, now 59, shifted from the traditional model of selling cherry/de-pulped coffee to intermediaries and embraced careful fermentation and controlled drying.
Coffee runs deep in Celia’s community. Her husband, Clementino Ramírez, is the brother of Antonio Ramírez, regarded as the first to cultivate coffee commercially in the area (Typica and Bourbon in the 1980s). For decades, the family sold coffee by mule in Comayagua for whatever price buyers offered. Today, Celia’s commitment to processing quality and separating lots is opening better markets and prices:
“Coffee growing is my family’s heritage… Now I have the opportunity to sell my coffee as specialty and to use the profits from this sale to improve my living situation and to better care for my farm.”
This year, Semilla purchased Celia and her family’s entire production, both micro-lots and a larger blended lot, as part of a commitment to pay differentiated prices across the full harvest.
Sourcing in Honduras
Sourcing in Honduras
We partnered with Semilla Coffee - a green importer based in Montreal to source this phenomenal lot from Celia. Semilla focuses on long term partnerships and community building with the local farmers and growers in the regions that they source from. Honduras is home to some of the most stunning high-altitude coffee farms, yet many farmers struggle to receive fair prices due to outdated buying practices that favour intermediaries over producers. Semilla works directly with growers like Celia to ensure they receive fair compensation for their labor and expertise, allowing them to reinvest in their farms and communities.
Semilla's Honduras work centres on hamlets along the Montecillos range (La Paz & Comayagua), where smallholders have historically sold to intermediaries or made day-long mule trips to town for uncertain, often unprofitable prices. This conventional system rarely leaves room to reinvest on the farm.
Semilla’s approach is to establish sustainable, consensus-based pricing that’s significantly higher than local baselines, buy across the community, and remove unnecessary intermediaries, so value flows directly to growers. With on-the-ground support from Jesús Galeas, producers receive practical guidance in fermentation, drying, and lot separation, steps that translate into quality gains and better market access.
Choosing Sassy supports that model: direct relationships, transparent pricing, and the kind of producer-led quality work that keeps families on their land and builds a healthier specialty supply chain in Honduras.
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A delightfully rich warm coffee taste, full bodied without being overpowering. I love the smoothness and pleasant aftertaste that it leaves, a happy memory of its delightfulness!! Nice to know that it is possible to support an independent small producer.
This has been a favorite of mine since I started ordering from Mood. Crafted with care and precision, it's much lighter than the coffees I preferred before I really started paying attention. I'll be keeping this one around as long as it's available.
Imagine a coffee that is beyond smooth with a flavour that warms and delights you all at the same time. No hint of bitterness or acidity, just pure and amazing coffee flavour that delights you even after you have consumed it. Like a fine wine that makes you smile again even after you have had the final sip, this blend is one that is well worth your consideration. Two thumbs up!
I go to bed looking forward to drinking my coffee from Mood. I’ve tried a number of coffees from this roaster and have loved each one. This newest ones sweetness was a surprise and I live any coffee with caramel tones 😊
This is a very pleasant tasting coffee with a great aroma. It's easy to drink, and not very acidic. I'm used to very robust tasting coffees, so I was surprised at how smooth and easy to drink this coffee was. It's definitely a 'slow down and sip the day away' kind of coffee.