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El Salvador Black Honey

Manor: Finca EI Guarumal

Breed: Cadura

Altitude: 1250M

Treatment: Black honey treatment

Grade: SHB

El Salvador enjoys the name of "volcanic country". El Salvador is located between Honduras and Guatemala, with the Pacific Ocean in the south. The terrain is dominated by mountains and plateaus. The volcanic zone is rich in minerals, which is very conducive to coffee growth. The volcanic soil has made high-quality coffee trees.

El Salvador has five major coffee producing areas, namely, Apaneca, Central Belt, Chichontepec, Tecapa & Cacahuatique Mountain Range, which are roughly distributed on mountain slopes or plateau areas covered with volcanic ash above 1,200 meters above sea level. Most of them are cultivated in the "Shade Grown" method (Shade Grown in the shade). The advantages of this method are that coffee beans can be mature, honey mucus content increases, weight increases, and sweet polyphenol formation opportunities increase. Let the main ingredients of coffee beans fully formed. Coffee trees that get too much sun curl up at the edges, causing water loss, which is bad for photosynthesis, reduces carbon dioxide absorption, and reduces sugar mix.)

The main coffee varieties grown in El Salvador are iron pickup, bourbon, Pacas and Pacamara.

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Caturra is a natural variety of bourbon, discovered in Brazil in 1937, its tree is not as tall as bourbon, shorter, easy to harvest, adaptable, does not need shade trees, direct exposure to the sun can also be vibrant, commonly known as sun coffee (Sun Coffee), due to inheritance of bourbon lineage, so the resistance is weaker, but the yield is higher than bourbon.

Kadura is suitable for planting at low altitudes of 700 meters to 1700 meters. It has strong altitude adaptability, but the higher the altitude, the better the flavor and the lower the productivity.

/stroke method

Honey treatment method first appeared in Costa Rica in Central America, mainly because of the lack of water resources in some high altitude areas of Central America, so coffee fruit after the use of pulp screening machine together with the pulp mucosa for sun drying, it is a kind of treatment between the sun and water washing method,

It allows coffee to retain the cleanliness of the water washing method, and because it is sun-dried together with the pulp membrane, it greatly increases the sweetness and caramel flavor of the coffee. This treatment can reduce the acidity of the coffee beans and the aroma is more delicate.

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According to the thickness of pectin removal, the length of sun exposure (or drying thickness), the frequency of turning when drying, etc., honey processing is divided into black honey, red honey, orange honey, yellow honey and white honey.

According to the thickness of pectin removal:

Black honey: almost no pectin removal, so the longest drying time, need to last more than 14 days, in the process to avoid drying too fast, will use a cover to block too strong sunlight, so that sugar conversion more fully.

Red honey: remove 25% pectin (specific practices vary from estate to estate), sun lasts for about 12 days, and shade may also be used during the process

Yellow honey: remove 40% pectin, accept the most light drying, lasting about 8 days.

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