Klatch Coffee
El Salvador Las Mercedes Honey

Our El Salvador Honey blend exudes flavor notes of honeysuckle, golden raisin, and clove, with undertones of sweet granola and warm baking spices. This year’s Las Mercedes Honey blend smells just like grandma’s kitchen. The honey process starts with removing the skin from the coffee fruit immediately after picking, but the beans are dried with at least some of the fruit pulp or “honey” still adhering to them. As a result, the pulp adds sweetness and a little bit of fruit taste to the bean. Before depulping, the coffee fruit goes through an intense screening process to eliminate twigs, leaves, and other foreign material. At the wet mill, coffee cherries are received into ceramic tiled ditches, washed with fresh, collected rainwater, and immediately fed into a pulper, which each has rotating disks or cylinders and is fitted with adjustable knives. Pulpers are designed to separate the bean from the flesh of the fruit while leaving each bean intact in its parchment envelope. Coffee beans are then dried on clay patios to ensure even drying.