Salvadoran coffee beans and Pyrenees Manor Pacamara Yellow Honey won the Outstanding Cup CoE.

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What are the flavors and characteristics of Pacamara Yellow Honey from El Salvador Coffee Bean Pyrenees Manor, which won the Outstanding Cup CoE?

Pyrenees Manor (Los Pirineos) is famous in the boutique coffee world, not only because she has won eight El Salvador Cup of Excellence cups, but also because the owner Gilberto Baraona is crazy about coffee and spares no effort to experiment with bean seeds and treatments. with more than 90 different bean varieties and 8 different treatments, Pyrenees has almost become a favorite experimental farm for bean bakers.

Pyrenees is located in the southeast of El Salvador "de Chipa" volcano (Tecepa Volcano) extremely high, named after the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain. The owner Gilberto Baraona's family has been running the estate for more than a hundred years since 1890.

Pyrenees is a very beautiful manor with excellent microclimatic conditions, slow ripening cherries, good rainfall, and fertile volcanic soil. The treatment site is located between two mountains with good sun and ventilation, which is very suitable for uniform drying.

In the past five years, Gilbert has replanted 200000 coffee trees. Great enthusiasm has been invested in the improvement of coffee planting, harvesting and handling methods. Starting in 2012, he built more viaducts and sunshade gauze to make the drying process milder and last longer. In addition to the original Bourbon, Typica, Pacas and Pacamara, 10 new varieties are expected to be produced in 2017, including Orange Pacamara, Rosa, Native Bourbon, pointed Bourbon, Java and Kenya, as well as new hybrids Castillo Naranjal, Costa Rica 95, Lempira, Obata and Casiopea at an altitude of less than 1200 meters.

All cherries are harvested by hand, only ripe cherries are harvested. However, after harvest and before processing, there will be a screening process to pick out the beans that are not ripe enough or too ripe. He recycled the pulp and peel from all the treatments, using California red worm catalysis as a material for organic composting and returning it to coffee trees. Pyrenees has tropical rain forest certification, and is the first certified manor in El Salvador, Rain Water has been naturally filtered.

Gilbert's honey treatment

Gilbert's approach to honey is different. during the peeling and pulping stage, he retains all the mucus and puts it directly in the African elevated shed. Different honey treatments: yellow honey (Yellow Honey), red honey (Red Honey) and black honey (Black Honey) are mainly distinguished by different drying methods.

Take this Pacamara yellow honey treatment as an example, first remove the peel and pulp, put it on the African elevated shed bed to fully sun, but turn it every 20 minutes in the first three days, and then turn it 10 times a day until the moisture content is 12%. Can get a very sweet yellow flavor.

Red honey does not turn at all in the first three days of drying, making the beans ferment more intensely, appear red and stick together, and then turn 10 times a day. Black honey is different, the first three days is also every 20 minutes, but in the shade, and then turn 10 times a day, black honey drying more slowly, with chocolate flavor.

Treatment of Pacamara Yellow Honey in the Manor of Pyrenees in El Salvador

El Salvador Los Pirineos Pacamara Yellow honey

Country of production: El Salvador El Salvador

District: Berl í n, Berlin town; Ursuludan Usulutan;Tecapa-Chinameca

Manor: Pyrenees Manor Los Pirineos

Landowner: Gilberto Baraona

Processing plant: Pyrenees processing plant El Beneficio Los Pirineos

Area: 150 ha

Altitude: 1550 m

Bean seed: Pacamara Pacamara

Treatment method: Yellow Honey treated with yellow honey

Award record: 8 El Salvador extraordinary Cup (CoE) wins, fifth in 2012

Certification: tropical rainforest certification

Qianjie cuisine recommendation

V60 filter cup, 15g powder, water temperature 90 degrees, grinding 3, water powder ratio close to 1:15

Steaming in 30 grams of water for 30 seconds

Section: inject water until 110ml is cut off, wait for the water level to drop to 1pm 3 and then slowly inject water until 225ml stops.

That is, 30-125-225g

Other suggestions for trickling extraction:

Normal pressure, recommended grinding degree of 3.5-4 / water temperature 90 °C

Philharmonic pressure, recommended 2.5 grinding degree, water temperature 90 °C

Hand punch: 3.5 degree of grinding, water temperature 91 °C

3.5 Grinding-90 degrees water temperature