Diego Robelo | Aquiares Estate
- Costa Rica
- Red Honey
Like strawberry-rhubarb pie or guava paste in a buttery crust, and a clear candy sweetness at the edge.
Volume 09
Sweet Spot
This monthVolume 09: Sweet Spot begins on two mountainsides, one in Costa Rica and one in El Salvador, where two family farms are pushing the same honey process in different directions. Sweet, bright, and a little indulgent.
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Diego Robelo | Aquiares Estate
Costa Rica · Red Honey
Like strawberry-rhubarb pie or guava paste in a buttery crust, and a clear candy sweetness at the edge.
El Salvador · Red Honey
Like a peach tea cookie, dusted with powdered sugar and a drizzle of lemon and orange blossom honey.
What's Included
Themed playlist
Songs for the women growing it
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Volume 09: Sweet Spot begins on two mountainsides, one in Costa Rica and one in El Salvador, where two family farms are pushing the same honey process in different directions. Sweet, bright, and a little indulgent.
Tasting notes
- Strawberry, rhubarb, buttery crust, candy sweetness
- Peach tea cookie, powdered sugar, lemon, orange blossom honey
Both coffees shine as pour-over and hold up well in a drip machine or French press.
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- Pour-over
- Drip machine
- French press
Two 10 oz boxes of whole bean coffee, roasted in small batches and shipped within 2 business days.
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Step 1
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Step 2
Use about 1 gram of coffee to 16 grams of water. 22 g to 350 g is a good cup.
Step 3
Water just off the boil. Pour slowly and evenly, about three minutes total.
Step 4
Let it cool a little. The fruit notes open up as it does.
How to Brew
Step 1
Grind just before you brew, medium-fine for pour-over.
Step 2
Use about 1 gram of coffee to 16 grams of water. 22 g to 350 g is a good cup.
Step 3
Water just off the boil. Pour slowly and evenly, about three minutes total.
Step 4
Let it cool a little. The fruit notes open up as it does.
How to Brew
A Natural-Process Pairing
Processing is one of the clearest places to taste human decision-making in coffee.
We return to this often because it’s basic and still easy to forget: coffee starts as a fruit. After it’s picked, the seed has to be separated from that fruit and dried. In washed coffee, the fruit is removed early, often leading to a cleaner, brighter cup. In natural coffee, the coffee dries inside the whole cherry, which can bring more fruit, body, and intensity.
Honey process sits between the two. The skin is removed, but some of the sticky fruit layer, called mucilage, stays on the seed as it dries. Rather than literally making the coffee taste like honey, that remaining layer affects how the coffee dries and ferments, shaping the cup’s sweetness, texture, and acidity.
The balance depends on how much mucilage stays on, how slowly the coffee dries, and how carefully the process is managed. That’s why honey-processed coffees can still taste so different from one another.
The two coffees in this Volume show how wide that range can be. Aquiares Estate in Costa Rica brings strawberry, rhubarb, guava, and pie-crust sweetness. Los Pirineos in El Salvador is bright and bakery-sweet too, but in a different key: peach tea cookie, lemon, and orange blossom honey.
Together, they show how processing can shape flavor without erasing where a coffee comes from.
Sean Stewart
Folk Founder and Q Grader
Diego Baraona | Los Pirineos
- El Salvador
- Red Honey
Like a peach tea cookie, dusted with powdered sugar and a drizzle of lemon and orange blossom honey.
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