DRACULA - AUTUMN BLEND
DRACULA - AUTUMN BLEND

DRACULA - AUTUMN BLEND

$24.00

Celebrate the season of transformation with our most mysterious blend, crafted from three remarkable coffee journeys. This haunting combination features Honduras's mountain-grown heritage, Unblended's innovative Young Producer collective, and the transformed Inga community's volcanic honey process in Colombia. We taste notes of strawberry, blood orange, and chocolate fudge.
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  • DRACULA

about the coffee

Dracula brings together three distinct coffee personalities from different sides of the flavor spectrum, each contributing essential character to this darkly delicious blend. The foundation comes from Honduras's Santa Barbara Mountain—a protected national park where third and fourth-generation families cultivate coffee at 1,000-1,650 meters above sea level. Colombia's contribution splits between two fascinating sources: the Young Producer Program's Development Lot, featuring passionate farmers from Antioquia, Quindío, and Huila working at 1,600-2,000 meters, and the remarkable Inga community's honey-processed Caturra from volcanic soils at 2,150 meters near Galeras Volcano. This elevation diversity creates layered complexity—bright citrus from high-altitude Colombian farms, balanced by Honduras's structured sweetness and the honey process's fruit-forward character.

about the process

Each component brings its own processing expertise to create DRACULA's multi-dimensional profile. The Honduras San Vicente undergoes traditional fully washed processing with 10-16 hour fermentation, creating the blend's clean chocolate foundation and structural backbone. The Development Lot represents modern Colombian processing techniques from young producers experimenting with consistency and quality control across multiple regions. The Aponte honey process adds the most dramatic element—Inga producers dry their Caturra with mucilage intact using stacked raised bed solar dryers, reducing water usage while intensifying fruit sweetness. This combination of processes creates the blend's signature progression: bright fruit opening, structured body development, and rich chocolate finish.

about the producer

DRACULA tells three powerful stories of transformation and passion. In Honduras, families who rebuilt their farms after the devastating 2011 coffee leaf rust outbreak now cultivate rust-resistant varieties like Ihcafe 90, Lempira, and Pacas with renewed determination. Colombia's Young Producer Program connects emerging coffee professionals who have chosen passion over convention, pooling resources to guarantee quality and year-round availability while expanding opportunities for newcomers. Finally, the Inga community of Aponte represents transformation—from being forcibly involved in illegal poppy production by guerrilla groups and drug traffickers just fifteen years ago, to becoming proud specialty coffee producers whose volcanic-grown beans are sought after worldwide. Their journey from violence to coffee exemplifies how agricultural opportunities can restore peace and dignity to entire communities.