Basic knowledge of high-quality coffee beans in coffee producing countries

El Salvador

Coffee Type: Arabica Coffee

Output: 1.300.000 bags

El Salvador coffee has a milder, less acidic profile with classic mid-American flavors. The best high-altitude grown Salvadoran coffees are obtained from the Bourbon and Parker Mora coffee trees. This coffee is aromatic, complex, lively and pleasantly mild.

Strictly high-altitude growing: the highest grade of Salvadoran coffee.

Ethiopia

Coffee Type: Arabica Coffee

Output: 4.500.000 bags

Ethiopian coffee is a very complex coffee variety. The best of these coffees are dry process coffees (hara beans) with medium viscosity and strong acidity, with a coarse, fruity and alcoholic quality. The best washed Ethiopian coffees (yerba sherphine, sidamole) are low viscosity but expose complex floral or citrus symbols.

Gemma, Gemma, Gemma. A washed gin majima can be an excellent low-acid coffee. Dry-processed coffees are a lesser coffee, they often exhibit wild or medicinal characteristics, and they are not often traded as specialty coffees.

Kimby. A wet-processed coffee from western Ethiopia.

Limarim Limarim . A market name for a famous aromatic, floral and fruity wet process coffee from south-central Ethiopia.

Sidamo, washed Sidamo. A market name for a well-known low to medium viscosity wet process coffee with floral or fruity flavours from southern Ethiopia.

Yerga Sherphine. The market name for one of Ethiopia's most famous washed coffees, known for its fruity or floral acidity and elegant, complex flavor.

Guatemala

Coffee type: Arabica, Robusta

Output: 3.700.000 bags

The best Guatemala coffees have a very pronounced pungency or smoke that sets them apart from other coffees. They have a high acidity, and the aroma or smoke is distorted as sour. The best Guatemala coffees are medium or high viscosity with rich flavor. The strict hard beans rate coffee from the central highlands (Antigua, Adelaide) to exhibit rich pungency or floral acidity and excellent shape. Coffee from mountainous regions is susceptible to either Pacific (California State) or Caribbean (Guatemala) climates and exhibits less acidity and more fruity flavors. Famous Guatemala estates include San Miguel, Capitillo, San Sebastian, and Ross Volcanos.

Antigua. Market name for one of the most famous Guatemala coffees grown in the valleys surrounding Antigua, the old capital of Guatemala.

Cobán . Market name for famous coffee grown at high altitudes in north-central Guatemala.

Guatemala. A good Guatemala coffee.

Guinea

Coffee Type: Arabica Coffee

Output: 4.500.000 bags

Haiti

Coffee Type: Arabica Coffee

Output: 370.000 bags

The best Haiti coffees are low in acid, medium in viscosity, and pleasantly mild and rich in flavor. Haiti's abundant rainfall and deep volcanic soil combine with low-altitude cultivation to give Haiti coffee its unique mellow sweetness.

To grow extremely tall. The highest grade of Haiti coffee.

Honduras

Coffee Type: Arabica Coffee

Output: 3.000.000 bags

Honduran coffee is wet-processed and used primarily as a cheap blend. Some excellent coffees are also grown here, but they are usually mixed before they are exported.