Honduras La Colmena

Watermelon, red currant, orange blossom

A farm familiar to both our menu and the international coffee community, La Colmena is operated by our dear friend Benjamin Paz and his cousin David Muñoz, two stalwart figures in Santa Bárbara. Their harvest delivers a remarkably clean coffee with notes of watermelon and red currant.

This coffee can be purchased as part of our Santa Bárbara Set, which includes three other exceptional Honduran coffees and a copy of Parchment Vol. 003.

Honduras La Colmena from Parlor Coffee showcases the distinctive character of coffees from Santa Bárbara in Honduras. The roaster identifies watermelon, red currant, and orange blossom in the cup—a bright, fruit-forward profile anchored by floral complexity. These flavor characteristics reflect the interplay between the coffee's origin terroir and the roaster's development choices, creating a cup that balances juicy acidity with delicate aromatics.

This lot comes directly from the La Colmena producer and represents the coffee culture of Honduras's Marcala region. When exploring how these tasting notes fit into broader flavor categories, the flavor wheel can help contextualize the specific fruit and floral dimensions Parlor identifies in this coffee.