Organic & Fairtrade Honduras Swiss Water Decaffeinated

A 100% chemical-free, environmentally friendly process that uses water, temperature, and time to remove 99.9% of caffeine. This coffee is rich and nutty. Notes of maple syrup, praline and milk chocolate. 

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The coffee

After searching for years for a decaffeinated coffee that was genuinely of equal taste to a non-decaf, along came Swiss Water. We regularly cup this alongside caffeinated origins, and it constantly sneaks under the radar. Finally, a decaf that tastes how you would expect the origin, Honduras, to taste!

Using no chemicals, just a green coffee extract and water, this coffee is 99.9% free of caffeine. First, the Green Coffee Extract (GCE) is created by soaking caffeinated beans in water. This includes all of the water-soluble solids that you would find in green coffee, just without the caffeine. Next, the coffee that you are decaffeinating is cleaned and rehydrated, to make sure it’s at the optimal level of hydration for the process - it’s then placed into a massive container, throughout which the GCE is continuously circulated. It takes around 8 to 10 hours for the caffeine level to reach 0.1%, with the caffeine being removed by osmosis - the caffeine is then constantly filtered out of the GCE using a carbon filter system. After all this, the coffee is dried, packed and shipped to us!

The region

COCAFELOL is a great example of the good that being a part of a co-operative can do. They’re dedicated and focused on promoting sustainable agricultural practices, which has resulted in the production of a huge amount of natural fertilisers made from coffee husks and natural fungi, which are then given to farms free of charge. The business behind the production and distribution of fertiliser was actually created through the funding provided by the Fairtrade premium.

The Ocotepeque Department is in the west of Honduras, a very mountainous area focussing largely on agriculture. Right on the border with Guatemala and El Salvador, and surrounded by several national parks, it’s a stunning area with perfect conditions for coffee growing. 

What our team says

"Such a show-off coffee, because you'd have no idea that it was decaf! It keeps the complexity of a speciality single origin, and it's an added bonus that it's Organic and Fair-trade too" - Laura

Decaffeinated without any chemical element, this coffee is rich and nutty. 

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The coffee

After searching for years for a decaffeinated coffee that was genuinely of equal taste to a non-decaf, along came Swiss Water. We regularly cup this alongside caffeinated origins, and it constantly sneaks under the radar. Finally, a decaf that tastes how you would expect the origin, Honduras, to taste!

Using no chemicals, just a green coffee extract and water, this coffee is 99.9% free of caffeine. First, the Green Coffee Extract (GCE) is created by soaking caffeinated beans in water. This includes all of the water-soluble solids that you would find in green coffee, just without the caffeine. Next, the coffee that you are decaffeinating is cleaned and rehydrated, to make sure it’s at the optimal level of hydration for the process - it’s then placed into a massive container, throughout which the GCE is continuously circulated. It takes around 8 to 10 hours for the caffeine level to reach 0.1%, with the caffeine being removed by osmosis - the caffeine is then constantly filtered out of the GCE using a carbon filter system. After all this, the coffee is dried, packed and shipped to us!

The region

The Alto Mayo Agricultural Coffee Cooperative, based in Peru, was founded on July 15, 2012 by a group of 15 people intending to combine their passion and ideologies, and to remove their reliance on intermediaries. This dual focus has enabled them to grow to 943 associated families across 43 production areas in the San Martin and Cajamarca regions. 

The group mission now states ‘We develop cooperative education and are committed to promoting sustainable human development, both for the families associated with the cooperative and for their communities.’

What our team says

"Such a show-off coffee, because you'd have no idea that it was decaf! It keeps the complexity of a speciality single origin, and it's an added bonus that it's Organic and Fair-trade too" - Laura