Central American boutique coffee Pacamara black honey treatment at San Leticia Manor in El Salvador

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Although the land area of El Salvador is small, it has dozens of volcanoes, and it is the country with the highest volcanic density in the world, so it is called the "country of volcanoes". The average elevation of the country is high, and this geographical environment is very conducive to the growth of coffee, and the western part of El Salvador near Guatemala is the main coffee producing area.

Climatic characteristics

Savanna climate. The plain area belongs to the tropical rain forest climate and the mountain area belongs to the subtropical forest climate. The average annual temperature is 25-28 ℃. The annual precipitation is more than 1800 mm in mountain areas and about 1000 mm in coastal areas. The rainy season is from May to October.

Don't underestimate El Salvador's coffee production. In its heyday, it was once the fourth largest coffee producer in the world, but decades of civil war almost dragged down the coffee industry. fortunately, the war has stopped in recent years, and the coffee industry has come back to life. The only benefit that the civil war brought to the Salvadoran country was that the farmers' fields were barren and failed to catch up with the most popular Katimo exposure train in the past two decades, thus preserving the ancient bourbon and Tibica varieties, that is to say, El Salvador still uses the most traditional shade planting.

El Salvador boutique coffee is concentrated in the volcanic rock producing areas of Santa Ana in the west and Charantanan fruit in the northwest. In recent years, the top 10 cup tests are almost entirely from these two producing areas, with an altitude of about 9-1500 meters, mainly bourbon (68%). Followed by Pacas (29%), mixed-race Pakamara, Dulaai and Kaddura accounted for only 3%.

The coffee harvest lasts from November to March. The fresh fruit of coffee is picked by hand. Coffee in El Salvador is grown mostly by small farmers, who grow it in the traditional way: almost 100% shade. The coffee harvest lasts from November to March. The fresh fruit of coffee is picked by hand.

On the whole, Salvadoran coffee inherits the mild quality of Sino-American coffee, which is soft, slightly sour and has beautiful sweetness. At the same time, it also has its own characteristics: the aromatic taste is slightly sour and very soft; it is pure and has no miscellaneous flavor, and the taste balance is excellent; the smooth feeling like cream chocolate is impressive; the dense feeling of coffee in the mouth gives the coffee a deep taste and a long finish.

Pacamara coffee is a hybrid of Pacas Pacas (a sudden variant of the bourbon species) and giant bean Maragogype (elephant bean) found in El Salvador in the 1950s.

It was first cultivated by researchers in El Salvador in 1958. Pacamara is an excellent variety under rare artificial breeding, which is better than blue, and perfectly inherits the advantages of the mother plant. Both the excellent taste of Pacas and the large size of Maragogipe are inherited by raw bean granules. The bean body is at least 70% and 80% of that of elephant beans, with more than 17 orders and more than 100% and more than 18 eyes. Average bean length 1.03 cm (general bean about 0.8-0.85 cm) average bean width 0.71 cm (general bean about 0.6-0.65), thickness 0.37 cm, bean shape plump and round. The biggest feature of this variety is that it is sour, lively and tricky, sometimes biscuit, sometimes fruity, thick and greasy. The quality is the best from El Salvador and Guatemala.

Pakamara. And it is a rare black Mipa Camara!

70 per cent of the 160-hectare estate is planted with Kaduai, 20 per cent with Kaddura and only 10 per cent with Pacamara. Pacamara has a small planting area and a small yield. Planting-picking-processing-transportation, they can not neglect every link of Danny. Finally, three packs of purplish red ribbons came across the sea.

Unlike the green ribbon sun Pacamara, it is only treated with black honey. Almost all the pectin is retained and dried for 20-25 days. The overall feeling of the cup is strong flavor, high sweetness and medium thickness.

Product name: Pacamara black honey treatment

Country: El Salvador

Producing area: Chateau Saint Leticia

Altitude: 1650m

Treatment method: solarization-black honey treatment

Grade: SHB

Variety: Pacamara

Baking degree: moderate

Flavor: blueberry, passion fruit, bright acidity, rich taste

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