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According to local news this week, Honduras has moved up to 5th place among the world's largest coffee exporting countries! Pretty amazing, considering that it's a country the size of the state of Pennsylvania.  When I stopped at the Export Permits office a few days ago, the official told me that they've exported around 800 million pounds of green coffee so far. As they finish up the exports for the season, they expect to exceed 900 million pounds. Most of Honduras' coffee is sent to Europe, with Germany at the top of the list. I forget how much Mr Fernandez...

Single-serve cups are just around the corner! They are designed to work with the 2.0 Keurigs and older models. Enjoy Rugged Mountain Coffee Original quick and easy!

Yesterday we finished another year's harvest.  It was a very busy time, but we are happy for a great crop.  

Our pickers must hand-pick approximately 275 ripe cherries to make a pound.  Because of all the processing & drying, approximately 8 lbs of ripe cherries equal 1 lb of roasted beans, so it takes about 2,200 ripe cherries to make one pound of exportable coffee, or 50 cherries to make a cup of coffee.  There are normally 2 beans per cherry, although some have 3 beans. Disclaimer:  These are my calculations, other sources may vary. 

I recently found another place to dry process our coffee - to thresh it from the parchment and machine-sort it to remove more of the defects. This is the step that we haven't been able to do in the Siguatepeque area, as there are no businesses that offer it to this extent as a custom service to others. The Xinacla special coffee processing facility is located about 2 1/2 hours from the Rugged Mountain Coffee farm, right in the midst of a huge coffee farm that specializes in micro-lots of specialty coffee, marketed by Passion Coffee.   COFFEE THRESHER This machine...