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El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, although its output is much less than that of other countries, but the Pacific sea breeze and multi-volcanic environment provide 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 Santa Ana volcano, which is located 2381 meters above sea level west of the capital, has the advantage of soil quality and planting height. Santa Ana volcano, 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 planting. When you first step into the manor, you can feel that it is different from other Salvadoran manors. 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 relatively poorly in terms of equipment, but Fernando constantly updates a lot of equipment in the processing plant, making Santa Elena Manor one of the few estates in El Salvador to use African scaffolding for the sun drying of coffee fruits. Although the use of African scaffolding equipment tends to stretch longer in the sun, it can improve the cleanliness and sweetness of coffee.

At the same time, Mr. Fernando Fernando also began to set up his own water washing treatment station 15 years ago, with its own water washing treatment station, so that the landowner can control the follow-up procedures and carry out more detailed honey treatment batch experiments. In St. Elena Manor, Mr. Fernando does not immediately carry out peeling or sun treatment after harvesting coffee red fruit. Instead, the red fruit was placed in a clean water tank in the treatment plant to improve the sweetness of the coffee, and then followed by follow-up treatment.

Although many excellent batches of washed coffee can be found in El Salvador in the past, they are 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 is almost 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.

One of the giant beans of the genus pacamara was crossed at the Salvadoran Coffee Research Center (ISIC) more than half a century ago by crossing a variety of bourbon-Pacas (Pacas) with a variety of Tibika-elephant beans / giant beans (Maragogype). Then what? In recent years, in addition to geisha, pacamara is also very popular, the common classic flavor is apricot, citrus and honey, but in the past two years under the pressure of geisha, it has not been as popular as in the past few years.

Flavor description: a hint of wine, chilled canned peaches, honey, slightly citrus notes, high acidity, high sweetness (especially at room temperature), body thick, high cleanliness and layering.

How to make Salvadoran coffee in the sun Pacamara?

As for the way of brewing, hand brewing and siphon brewing are the best. When grinding beans, you can smell the flowers and fruit, the sweetness is obvious. According to our experience, the main differences before brewing Salvadoran coffee are baking degree and altitude, and baking date. In principle, the temperature of deep baking can be lower, and the shallower the temperature of baking can be higher. For example, shallow baked beans, longer time, rough grinding, the beans themselves are sour, and if you like bitter or sour, you can try it at a higher temperature. Of course, those aromatic lipids do give off more aroma when the temperature is high, but sometimes it is accompanied by the destruction of certain flavors. Of course, the cooking temperature is not too fixed, which can be determined according to your personal taste or the degree of baking of the beans.

El Salvador coffee beans are commonly used: three-stage style

Three-stage water injection method:

To inject a section of water into three stages.

Suitable for light, medium and medium roasted coffee beans

Use filter cup V60

Increase the steaming time or water cut-off times to improve the rich taste of the coffee.

Degree of grinding-small Fuji 3.5, sugar size

Segmented extraction method of three-stage water injection

The layers are richer, and the flavor of the front, middle and back of the coffee can be clearly defined. The practice is to increase the amount of water each time after steaming, usually when the coffee liquid is about to drop to the surface of the powder layer, and use small, medium and large water flow to do three-stage extraction.

Reference for hand punching parameters:

Use V60 filter cup, 16 grams powder 32 grams of water steaming for 30 seconds, 89-90 degrees water temperature extraction, 1:15, medium and fine grinding small Fuji 3.5, the second water injection to 140ml cut off, wait for water drop and then slowly water injection, uniform speed, the water level should not be too high, again water injection to 220ml stop, extraction time 2:15 seconds-unique almond plum flavor and chocolate taste, we can fine-tune according to their own taste.

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