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SL28 of El Salvador Andes Farm (2017 WBC Champion beans with the same owner)

This year's WBC World Coffee Masters champion Dale Harris used beans from SL28 planted by El Salvador coffee farmer Menedez, which beat all the rose summers in the final to win the first place, and everyone began to wonder, what kind of coffee is this?

Ernesto Meng é ndez is a very famous coffee farmer in El Salvador. He owns several farms, including La Illusion, Los Andes, and Las Brumas. These three farms have brilliant award records. La Ilusion won the El Salvador Cup of Excellence Cup in 2008, and Andes won the 5th Phantom Cup in 2010.

SL28 is very rare in El Salvador, but Menedez has this bean from Kenya on both his Mist and Andes farms. When he bought the farm in 2009, he found this special bean in the Andes and loved it very much. The fog turned out to be only bourbon, and the SL28 planted on the farm was entirely from the Andes, and this time the Dale Harris used a special batch of SL28.

Since last year, Andes and foggy SL28 coffee have been on the shelves, baked by Drop Bean Roaster in Sweden. As soon as the winner of this year's WBC was announced, we immediately asked Drop to roast and airlift this SL28 to Taipei. Let's have an aftertaste of this outstanding coffee again. Drop is baked in Omni roast, which is suitable for Italian style and hand brewing, which just allows curious friends to experience the taste of WBC champion cooking in a semantic condensed way.

Located in Canton of Palo Campana, an hour's drive from Santa Ana, with an average elevation of 1720 meters, Andes Farm is located in the heart of the Ilamatepec volcanic area, surrounded by Andes National Park (National Park Los Andes), so the farm is also named Andes. The surrounding wild insects, fish, birds and animals are active, and the luxuriant pine and cypress trees in the national park provide excellent microclimatic conditions for the farm, which is of great help to coffee cultivation.

More than 60 years ago, the former owner of Andes planted the Kenyan coffee variety SL28 on the farm, which he brought back from a trip to Kenya. It grew very healthily and flourished in the garden. After Ernesto took over the farm, with this special Kenyan flavor, he won the fifth of the 2010 Cup of Excellence Cup!

Ernisto not only required strict maturity during harvest, but also went through two manual screening procedures to remove unqualified cherries, and then immediately sent them to the San Carlos processing plant on another farm for washing. After removing the peel and pulp, ferment for 16 hours, wash the shell beans with clean water, and finally put them on the African elevated shed bed to dry until the moisture content reaches 11.00%.

Drop loved the coffee so much that he bought all the SL28 produced on the Andes farm. Joana said of the owner Menedez, "when we tested his coffee in Ernesto's laboratory, we saw his profound knowledge of coffee, whether it's planting, handling, packaging, roasting, cup testing, and so on. We are very happy to have his coffee!"

When Drop visited the Andes farm, farmer Menedez explained in detail how many Kenyan beans Salva saw in the first place, as well as the state of the farm as a whole, is a rare film.

Sl28 washing of Santa Andes Farm in El Salvador

El Salvador Santa Ana Los Andes Sl28 washed

Country of production: El Salvador El Salvador

Producing area: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountains; Santa Ana Santa Ana

Farm: Andes Farm Los Andes

Washing plant: San Carlos

Producer: Ernesto Menedez Ernesto Menn é ndez

Altitude: 1720 m

Bean seed: SL28 Kenya bean seed

Treatment method: full water washing Fully washed

Harvest time: 2017

Award record: 2008 Outstanding Cup Champion (La Illusion); 2010 Outstanding Cup No. 5 (Los Andes)

2012 extraordinary Cup Champion (Las Brumas)