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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Honduras El Ocotal, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Honduras El Ocotal; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Honduras El Ocotal; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Honduras El Ocotal; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇭🇳Honduras · Lempira

Honduras El Ocotal

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TagsHondurasLempiraBrown SugarArabicaSingle originEl OcotalJuan PascualIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇭🇳Honduras
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇭🇳Honduras
Region
Lempira
Town
La Laguna
Farm / Station
El Ocotal
Farmer / Producer
Juan Pascual
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
—
Process
—
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Apple, Raw sugar
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • VARIETYNeither the prior exact product-page capture nor the corroborating exact catalogs disclose the variety.
  • PROCESSThe exact sources do not disclose processing, fermentation or drying details.
  • ALTITUDEThe exact sources do not publish a lot-specific elevation; no regional estimate was substituted.
  • HARVESTNo crop year or harvest window is published for this release.
  • CONVENTIONAL ROAST LEVELNo exact source publishes a conventional Light–Dark roast classification.
  • CURRENT OFFICIAL PAGEThe Intelligentsia product URL is no longer directly accessible; current structured commerce fields rely on exact catalog snapshots.
  • PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGNo independent exact-release numeric tasting rating qualified; catalog and roaster-level indices were excluded.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Honduras El Ocotal
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    The farm
    El Ocotal
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Juan Pascual
  7. 07
    The region
    Lempira
  8. 08
    The country
    🇭🇳Honduras
From the producer

Juan Pascual operates El Ocotal in La Laguna, Lempira. Intelligentsia sourced this release through Bon Café.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia presents this as its first release sourced from Juan Pascual and its first Honduran coffee of that season.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The release documents a new Intelligentsia sourcing relationship with Juan Pascual and clearly identifies the farm and municipality.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Reconciled commerce fields

Added the exact-product catalog's $21 USD price, 340 g package and sold-out status.

02
Preserved release identity

Retained Juan Pascual, El Ocotal, La Laguna, Lempira and Bon Café from the earlier exact Intelligentsia page capture.

03
Separated versioned tasting notes

Kept apple and raw sugar as the prior official snapshot while documenting Cherrybook's plum/chocolate/juniper capture separately rather than merging them.

04
Protected scoring boundaries

Added no owner score or public sentiment rating because no qualifying independent exact-release tasting score was found.

What was added?

Structured $21 USD pricing, 340 g package, sold-out verification and refreshed provenance boundaries.

What wasn't added?

No variety, process, elevation, harvest, fermentation, drying protocol, conventional roast level, owner score or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now exposes verifiable retail metadata while making the inaccessible official page and conflicting flavor snapshots transparent.

What you might taste

Apple and raw sugar according to the earlier Intelligentsia product-page capture; these are roaster notes, not an owner tasting observation.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://intelligentsia.com/products/honduras-el-ocotal
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-honduras-el-ocotal
  • · https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/roaster/intelligentsia-coffee-watertown
  • · https://www.beanpigeon.com/coffee/los-angeles
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-11-02) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Beans with Beanie and Bean Pigeon are exact catalog/discovery records without review scores. Cherrybook's CBI is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index using sparse per-lot and roaster-level signals, not an exact-release cup score.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: El Ocotal →Meet the farmer: Juan Pascual →
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