What is the El Salvador HIQ standard? What kind of coffee do you grow in El Salvador?

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El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. Coffee is the main crop in most regions, but don't forget its existence because of its miniature. 60% of the coffee in El Salvador is bourbon, such as orange, pink bourbon, red bourbon, etc. Coffee beans are harvested only once a year, between November and February of the following year. Compared with coffee farms in other Central and South American countries, most Salvadoran farms are medium-sized, and farmers produce high-quality coffee cherries with great enthusiasm and expertise, allowing the coffee export market to flourish and maintain and improve the quality of coffee beans.

HIQ (High Quality) is a high-quality coffee bean, promoted by HIU company founded by Panamanian Graciano Cruz Casino Cruz. U means smile. At present, there are coaching partners in El Salvador, Panama, Ethiopia, HIU will look for micro, variety, treatment, climate and other special high-quality farms. Then educate farmers to comply with the production standards laid down by HIQ, including measuring the sugar content of raw coffee beans and maintaining an organic environment friendly to the land, and tutoring its farms to build updated processing equipment to bring the whole process in line with HIQ standards.

Farm Farm name: Cajamarca Farm

Farmer Farm owner: Francisco Arturo Alvarez Meza

Grade level: SHB

Awards Award: the second Salvadoran Coffee Presidential Award

City City: Apaneca-Ilamatepec

Region producing area: San Geronimo, Nejapa Nahaba

Country countries: El Salvador El Salvador

Aroma aroma / flavor flavor: raw olives, almonds, grapes, vanilla, hazelnut, chocolate, honey, red sugar cane

Acidity: citrus, plum acid, mild and low acidity

Complex complexity and other other: smooth, very sweet, low complexity, flower and fruit aroma coexist, sweet and sour smooth unobtrusive.

In recent years, due to the civil war to retain the original varieties, but also with the Japanese Coffee Research Institute to cultivate mixed-race bean "Pacamara" (Pacamara), this new variety combines two Arabica hybrid varieties: elephant beans (Maragojipe) and Pacas (Pacas), in the international "extraordinary cup" auction, it only took four years to get through all the way, and won the first to fourth place in 2007!

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