How to buy coffee beans from Guatemala's historic small estates

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Guatemala-Florence Manor

Guatemala's coffee growing conditions are the best in Central American countries, compared with other Central American coffee has more tropical fruit aroma, taste is also more rich and sweet. Good coffee is concentrated in the capital Antigua and Vivette Nanguo in the northwest. Antigua coffee has a better consistency, and the taste of tobacco and chocolate is perfect and balanced. On the other hand, Vivette Nanguo Highland is characterized by delicate fruit acid and maltose sweetness. these two producing areas seem to fill the world's impression of Guatemalan coffee, but many unknown small-scale, small-yield exquisite estates only cooperate directly with raw bean merchants in a direct way, which means that quality is absolutely the most important living condition for unknown estates.

Fraijanes is located in the east of the capital Antigua. Most of the coffee is sold by coffee estates in Antigua. A few estates with a long history of little production are due to the reputation and reputation that their predecessors have worked hard to build and the pragmatic work of coffee farmers today, which is the best way to sell Fraijanes coffee. Florence Manor is one of them. Florence Manor is located in an ideal growing environment with sufficient shade at high altitude, coupled with the fact that the coffee variety is 100% old bourbon tree species, which is somewhat different from traditional Guatemalan coffee, but obviously better than El Salvador bourbon tree coffee. the proportion of bad beans with dense beans, high moisture content and dark green color is less, so Florence Manor has outstanding tropical fruit (blueberry) aroma. Although acid is not her strong point, but the conversion from such acid to sweet is very sweet.

On the left hand side is the El Salvador bourbon tree coffee. On the right hand side is the Guatemalan Florence Manor bourbon tree coffee.

Shallow baking City (fragrance): the sweet aroma of ground beans is the aroma of baked cookies, the smooth taste is special, the tangerine acid maintains a soft and delicate style from the beginning to the end, and then the sweet and delicate fruit is a good taste handed down by Florence Manor. In my mouth, the sweet drool slipped back from the tip of my tongue, which attracted me to stop and taste the taste buds of the coffee slowly.

Heavy baking (general C): lively and vibrant chocolate aroma, with a completely different taste from light baking, with rich sweet malt syrup and a great drupe finish.