Honduras - Anastacio Benitez Diaz

Honduras - Anastacio Benitez Diaz

Region: San Sebastián, Lempira
Producer: Anastacio Benítez Díaz
Varietal: Bourbon, Catimor, IHCAFE 90, Lempira, Pacas, Red Catuai
Altitude: 1800 MASL
Process: Washed

We Taste: Milk Chocolate, Jasmine Tea, Limeade

Light Roast

Anastacio Benítez Díaz comes from Gualdalla, a humble village in the municipality of San Sebastián, Lempira. He lived there until he was 6, when his parents moved to San Sebastián so he could attend school. Three years later the family moved again, this time to Plan del Limon, Carrizalito, and Anastacio traveled several kilometers to reach the school in Agua Fría. He left school after fourth grade to work alongside his father growing basic grains. At 15, he planted his first coffee trees on a half-hectare in an area called El Izote, and by 1998 he had harvested his first cherries. He put the profits into fertilizer and more land until he had planted the full hectare. Today Anastacio, his parents and his brothers grow and trade coffee across 14.79 hectares. Over the years they've improved their processing with a wooden wet mill, concrete patios and covered raised beds for drying.

In December 2020, with help from Boncafé, Rival Bros' exporting partner in Honduras, Anastacio acquired an ecological wet mill. It lets him depulp and wash the coffee in one step, which saves time and, more importantly, water. The mill also turns the leftover pulp into organic fertilizer for his coffee trees. Anastacio says he's very happy with the improvement and looks forward to supporting his family and neighbors with it, since they all bring their coffee to his mill for processing as well.

Our Director of Coffee, Chris Miller, visited the farm in May of 2026. Señor Benítez Díaz is one of the producers behind a coffee we already use in our blends. One goal of our green coffee program is to buy more than one tier of coffee from our exporting partners, and this single origin is exactly that.