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Migration Celebration

Cupping Notes: Chocolate. Roasted almonds. Heavy body.

Roast Level: Medium

$19.59
Description

100% Bird-Friendly Honduran coffee - a real celebration of our commitment to protecting migratory birds and their habitat!

[Roast Level] Velvet

[Region] Marcala

[Cooperative] COMSA

[Altitude] 1220-1524m

[Varietal] Bourbon, Typica, Catuai, Caturra

[Processing Method] Fully Washed

We've roasted this coffee to a very approachable middle ground, in between our medium and dark roasts, velvet, as we like to call it.  It's super smooth and full bodied, the acidity is very mild, and the chocolate notes are prevalent. It's hard not to like. 

We’ve collaborated with this community to design and implement the following initiatives:

  • Reforestation
  • Promoting agroforestry
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This Coffee's Story

Our relationship with COMSA is new (2016) but has grown quickly. COMSA is a leader in organic coffee production practices, boasting impressive yields year after year, through their use of organic fertilizers and teaching farmers cultivation standards that prize respecting and collaborating with nature. They have become an industry leader, setting the standard for other cooperatives to follow. We are excited to see what the future holds.

One thing is for sure, this coffee shines. COMSA’s beans are Fair Trade, organic, Smithsonian Bird Friendly Certified (trademark), and grown under shade using biodynamic practices. The “Manos de Mujer” (“Women’s Hands”) collective within COMSA produces the coffee we source, cultivated exclusively by women farmers who reinvest a portion of their profits back into their families and communities. The result is a coffee that is vibrant and balanced, with a smooth body and gentle acidity, offering layers of honey-like sweetness, soft citrus brightness, and a lingering cocoa finish. Aromatic and complex without being overwhelming, this coffee captures both the rich biodiversity of Marcala and the resilient, forward-looking spirit of the farmers who grow it. 

This Coffee's History

2015 - 2019
Indigenous Rights (COMSA)
  • We worked with Cultural Survival to support human rights workers in Honduras. 
  • Funding: $1,000 
2020
Gender Equity & Reforestation (COMSA)
  • We gave money to Grow Ahead for a project with COMSA on gender equity and reforestation. 
  • Funding: $3,000 
2021 - ongoing
COMSA International School (COMSA)
  • General support of the school, with a focus on a school-wide diagnosis of areas of improvement. 
  • Funding commitment to date: $5,000 
  1. 2015 - 2019
    Indigenous Rights (COMSA)
  2. 2020
    Gender Equity & Reforestation (COMSA)
  3. 2021 - ongoing
    COMSA International School (COMSA)
  • 5 stars: 15 (94%)
  • 4 stars: 1 (6%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Donna

Delicious coffee!

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JLGH
The Best!

This is my absolute favorite, and it's hard to have a favorite with every single one from Dean's Beans being so high quality. It smells spectacular, it tastes sublime, and it doesn't cause reflux or any other issues with my damaged GI system like the stuff you buy at the grocery store does. Not the mention all the positives about the company itself.

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itinerant
excellent

I agree with all the superlative reviews here! After sticking with Birdwatcher Blend for a while, we decided to experiment with "single origin" and chose Migration Celebration. I'm not qualified to say anything clever about "terroir" but I like the idea (and reality) of "place" and am intrigued by how that might influence the flavor of something like coffee. At the same time, I was expecting I wouldn't like single origin as much as a blend. Migration Celebration does have a distinctive flavor - and it is wonderful, a new favorite, as someone else said. My wife, who is more the coffee snob and less the geographer, endorses this review.

C
Caitlin

Best so far…

C
Caitlin

Be at t tasting

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T.F.

It was great!

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BigSkyGirl
Sublime

Excellent balance. Lower acid. May be my new favorite!

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Animal
A SUMPTUOUS, LUXURIOUS BREW

A memorable coffee with great body and alluring flavor with a deeply pleasing chocolate note. This is great coffee.

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Michelle
Nutty, Smooth, Not too strong

I've been trying different coffees because I specifically want to buy, organic, bird-friendly, fair trade. This one is my favorite so far. It has a nutty flavor and it's smooth, and not acidic (Dunkin Donuts is acidic - HORRIBLE) not real strong (but I do like strong). I've tried Ethiopian Oromia, Ring of Fire. I've bought Ahab's Revenge, but haven't tried it yet.

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Animal
SPECTCULAR COFFEE!!! FULL STOP.

Spectacular! Heavy and velvety with low acidity which makes it a gratifying brew that goes with or without food, and is glorious for dunking cookies.
The chocolate note makes Migration
Celebration a lot of fun to drink., The only requirements for loving Migration Celebration are a fondness for the taste of chocolate and superb, smooth coffee!

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Jamey
Honduran Magic

Guatemalen coffees were my favorite, but honestly, I'm making a hard shift to Honduran. And this "Migration Celebration" is really, really good. Great aroma and even better taste.

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Anita
My favorite coffee

Smooth with a very nice flavor. I love it.

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The
bottomless cup

Aromatic, this coffee fills that house with that aroma of fresh coffee brewing. Its smooth as velvet middle-ground good. Reminds me of the flavor and warmth of your local diner brew. you know, those early morning hours and the hostess says " just made a fresh pot" while flipping the thick porcelain mug over, Then that first sip, perfect. An all day good blend. I will buy it again, and again.

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Animal
Savor this splendid coffee. Hooray for chocolate!

Outstanding coffee! Also remarkable, because it is substantial and full-bodied, yet it is infinitely smooth and goes down completely comfortably. And then there is the marvelous chocolate! Hooray for chocolate! The chocolate notes, in addition to the velvety body and low acidity are no accident, but are the achievement of brilliant nurturers and roasters of these beans. In the face of the pandemic which has thrown up unimaginable challenged to all life on Earth, the resourcefulness, indomitable spirit, fidelity and sheer courage of every human individual involved in keeping the coffee coming - and validating the citizenship of the birds - cannot be overstated. The maintenance of forest for our courageous avian population - for whom this is a life-and-death matter - comes with this splendid coffee. Savor it. Hooray for chocolate any time!

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Anthony
Love it

Bought two when it was first released because I thought it was a limited edition. Smooth with bright flavors and a lower acidity, quickly became a favorite, and stoked to see it's here to stay!

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Mia
New favorite!

I've yet to meet a type of Dean's Beans I don't like, but this one is really special! Low acidity yet still a nice bright flavor, and incredibly smooth body like letting dark chocolate melt on your tongue.