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Among the countries of origin in Central America, El Salvador can be said to be the smallest country in land area. Although its output is much less than that of other countries, it has a Pacific sea breeze and many volcanoes around the sea.

However, it provides El Salvador coffee farmers with unique planting advantages and diversified flavor performance. At present, the winning variety Pacamara in many cup test competitions was born in El Salvador.

Among the producing areas of El Salvador, the one with the advantage of soil quality and planting height is the Santa Ana volcano, which is located 2381 meters above sea level west of the capital. Santa Ana, which is still active, erupted in 2005.

Although it caused heavy economic losses and some casualties to local coffee farmers in that year, the volcanic ash with organic matter later provided a very rich source of nutrients for the local soil, and Santa Ana is still recognized as one of the best producing areas in El Salvador. Saint Elena Manor is one of the few estates at the highest altitude in the Santa Ana producing area, which is currently run by Mr. Lima and Mr. Don Fernando Lima and is currently the third generation landowner.

Mr. Fernando has more than 30 years of coffee planting experience since he was young. At present, the main varieties planted in the manor are bourbon and Pacamara. Mr. Fernando adheres to the principle of maintaining environmental diversity in the concept of manor. when you first step into the manor, you can feel that unlike his El Salvador manor, the manor maintains a very primitive forest environment. At the same time, Mr. Fernando also retained a high proportion of old bourbon coffee trees, some of which are even more than 15 years old. for landowners, these coffee trees are the fruit of painstaking maintenance. Coffee trees will not be cut down because of older trees and less fruit, and these old bourbon trees can provide better cup flavor although they have less fruit.

Traditionally, Salvadoran coffee farmers do not deal with the exposure of coffee fruits so carefully, and at the same time, the equipment is relatively simple, but Fernando constantly updates many of the equipment in the processing plant. Santa Elena Manor is one of the few estates in El Salvador that use African scaffolding for coffee fruit solarization, although the sun exposure time of African scaffolding equipment tends to be longer. But it can improve the cleanliness and sweetness of coffee. At the same time, Mr. Fernando Fernando began to set up his own washing treatment station 15 years ago, with its own washing treatment station so that the landowner can control the subsequent coffee treatment. At the same time, a more detailed honey treatment batch experiment can be carried out. Mr. Fernando does not immediately undergo peeling or sun treatment after harvesting the red coffee fruit at St. Elena's estate. Instead, the red fruit is placed in a clean water tank in the treatment plant to improve the sweetness of the coffee, and finally the follow-up treatment is carried out.

Although many excellent batches of washed coffee can be found in El Salvador in the past, it is often slightly inferior to other countries in terms of sweetness and mellowness. Santa Elena Manor is one of the few estates in El Salvador with honey treatment and sun experience. Fernando Manor almost reached the point of being critical of every detail of honey treatment and sun exposure. These efforts have enabled St. Elena Manor to win a total of seven C.O.E competitions since 2003, and two of the top 10 Central American competitions organized by the Rainforest Conservation Union. Santa Elena Manor is located in Santa Ana Volcano, a volcano-producing area in the west of El Salvador. Due to volcanoes, the soil of the manor is very rich in organic matter. The average elevation of the manor is about 1850 meters and the terrain is steep. It is one of the highest estates in the area. At present, the owner of the manor is run by Mr. Don Fernando Lima. Mr. Fernando's idea is to try his best to maintain the original tradition of the country. In addition to the necessary pruning and irrigation outside the garden to maintain a wide range of natural agroforestry ecology, more than 90% of the manor planted bourbon varieties.

At the same time, Fernando also uses modern agricultural management techniques to divide the manor into different blocks to closely monitor and record soil quality, fertilization and coffee trees. In addition to excellent planting, St. Elena Manor also has its own coffee washing treatment facilities. for farmers with water washing stations, in addition to avoiding price exploitation to outsiders, the best thing is that they can deal with carefully selected coffee red fruits. Fernando is very rigorous in the process of washing treatment, in addition to regularly recording the temperature and humidity of the day. More attention should be paid to the treatment of coffee and raw beans in the fermentation tank.

Qianjie recommended cooking parameters:

Hand punch: V60 filter cup small Fuji R440 grinding 3.5, water temperature about 90 degrees

The recommended grinding degree of normal pressure is 4 and the water temperature is 90 ℃.

The recommended siphon grinding degree is 4, and the water temperature is 90 ℃ ~ 91 ℃.

The pressure grinding degree of Philharmonic is recommended to be 3.5, and the water temperature is 90 ℃.