The Presidential Award-winning Manor of the second Salvador Cup-HIQ Malacara Manor LC2 Farm

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El Salvador HIQ Malacara Manor LC 2 Farm (the second Salvador Cup Presidential Award-winning Manor) bourbon honey beans

El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America and the most densely populated country. Coffee beans are the main crops in most regions, but don't forget its existence because of its miniature. 60% of the coffee in El Salvador is Bourbon varietal bourbon, such as orange, pink bourbon, red bourbon and so on. Bourbon gives the impression of excellent cleanliness, bright and sweet taste. It is worth noting that El Salvador is the sovereign country of Pacas, Pacamara varietals Pacas and Pacamara coffee species. Coffee beans are harvested only once a year, between November and February of the following year, so newly harvested coffee is usually shipped to foreign coffee buyers from June to August. Compared with coffee farms in other Central and South American countries, most of the farms in El Salvador are medium-sized. With great enthusiasm and expertise, farmers produce high-quality coffee cherries, which has boomed the coffee export market and improved the quality of coffee beans, as Salvadorans say, as long as you take a sip of coffee and you smile.

HIQ (High Quality), as its name implies, is a high-quality coffee bean, a development program to help improve the quality of small farms. Similar to the Ethiopian Red Cherry program, HIQ will look for special high-quality farms such as miniature, variety, treatment, climate, etc., and then educate farmers to comply with HIQ production standards, including measuring the sugar content of coffee cherries and maintaining organic care for the environment. Its farms have built updated processing equipment to make the whole process comply with HIQ standards, but only a cup of coffee with a score of 85 or more is called HIQ coffee. HIQ currently has cooperative coaching farms in El Salvador, Panama and Ethiopia. (Taiwan has invited HIQ personnel to Taiwan to guide Alishan coffee production) the coffee produced is rare and unique, highlighting that the difference with ordinary coffee is more in line with the coffee consumers want. (the project host is the owner of Los Lojoness Farm in Panama.)

The picture above shows honey-treated coffee beans with obvious yellowish-brown honey-treated beans.

Founded in 1888 and now in charge of farm management, Jos e Guillermo Alvarez Prunera and his sister are fourth-generation coffee growers who produced the best coffee in El Salvador in the early 20th century. Now there are five farms offering 20 regular jobs, which can be expanded to 100 people during the harvest. There is a school, a clinic and some sports facilities in the farm community for employees to use free of charge, because of good quality, less production and strict production process. MALACARA is the winner of the Presidential Award for the second Cup of Excellence Presidential Award Winner Salvador Cup, and coffee is sold to the United States, Japan and the Netherlands.

Property Characteristics: farm characteristics

Farm Farm name: Malacara LC 2

Farmer Farm owner: Francisco Arturo Alvarez Meza

Grade level: SHB

Awards Award: the winning manor of the President's Award in the second Salvador Cup

City City: Apaneca-Ilamatepec

Region producing area: Volcan Santa Ana, Santa Ana Santa Ana Volcano, Santa Ana

Country countries: El Salvador El Salvador

Farm Size Farm size: 47.6Hectares hectare

Coffee growing area Coffee planting area: 45.5 Hectares ha

Altitude altitude: 1400 m

Coffee Characteristics: coffee characteristics

Variety variety: Bourbon bourbon

Processing System treatment: Honey processing, African raised beds honey treatment, African (sun drying) elevated bed drying

Flowering period flowering: June-August June to August

Harvest period harvest time: November and February harvest once a year between November and February of the following year

Top Jury Descriptions comment: the baking degree (Cinnamon) measured by the cup at the beginning of 60 seconds of explosion.

Aroma aroma / flavor flavor: olives, grass, almonds, peaches, grapes, vanilla, drupes, hazelnuts, caramel, chocolate, honey, sugar cane

Acid quality: fruit acid powder tender, persimmon, mild and low acidity, high consistency

The complexity of complex is similar to that of other: soft, smooth, sweet, very sweet, low complexity, flower and fruit aroma coexisting, sour to sweet, smooth and unobtrusive, long-lasting sweet aftertaste, oolong tea after cooling.

Cup test date: 2011.10.17

Dry aroma: 10

Wet aroma: 9

Clean: 9

Brightness: 8

Taste: 10

Balance: 9

Complexity: 9

Sweetness: 9

Acid quality: 9

Yu Yun: 10

Cup test score: 92

Overall comment: HIQ is a project to promote the production of high-quality coffee, each coffee has its own scarcity and unique story. El Salvador Honey treated Malacara Manor LC 2 Farm is handed down into four generations with a century-old output of rare bourbon seeds. It is a good coffee with a delicate and sweet finish.