Spring is weird. No matter how much you love it, ya gotta admit that it’s definitely the contrarian choice for favorite season. With that in mind, we decided to help dear old springtime out by bestowing it with a worthy, celebratory mascot: PRIMROSE.

We first launched this Springtime Coffee last year, and were delighted at the response. This year, with the triumphant return of longtime favorite partner Isaias Fernandez, we felt there was no better choice for Primrose Part II than his pristine Pacas. Sticky sweet, pink as rhubarb punch, and wispy as whipped honey, this coffee lives up to its BEE’S KNEES tagline, guaranteed to be the talk of town till the equinox.

In case you’ve not yet acquainted Isaias, here’s what you need to know: he 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 Fincona, 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 we wound up selecting two superb washed offerings from old friend Isaias, saving PRIMROSE till this magic moment 🪄