Isaias Fernandez is an incredibly talented and meticulous young producer from Santa Barbara, Honduras, a region well known for yielding some of the country’s most esteemed coffees, year after year. He has his own small wet mill directly on his farm, La Finonca, and he grows an impressive range of varieties on its modest-but-mighty hills. Over the years, we’ve featured several single-variety separations as well as some pitch-perfect all-day field blends. He graced our menu in 2019, 2020, and 2021, but in 2022/2023 we received the bittersweet news that all of Isaias’s coffees had been scooped up by a different partner. While we can certainly never begrudge a farmer for doing what’s best for them, we definitely missed seeing his name on our menu. BUT THEN… flash forward to Christmastime, 2023, when longtime importing pals Collaborative Coffee Source decide to send us a super sweet holiday surprise: LATE HARVEST OFFERS FROM OUR DEAR OLD DUDE ISAIAS! Though we would never have had the gall to explicitly put such a thing on our Lists, there’s hardly anything we would rather have seen under the proverbial tree.

And so, with a triumphant menu return in 2024, we’re so happy to solidify the BACK TO BACK here in 2025 with this beautiful expression of a natural process IH-90. As always, this coffee leaves us amazed with Isaias — taking a notoriously finicky variety and putting it through a slightly less consistent process could—in many hands—go terribly wrong, and yet here, we’ve got something molded to blissful perfection. Pleasantly tart and with a GUMMY sweet texture, this coffee has become a house favorite.