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Washed and sun-dried Salvadoran coffee flavor and taste introduce boutique coffee beans

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Coffee flavor and quality El Salvador is a producer of high-quality commercial Arabica beans and is famous for its strict and effective quality control. Since 2003, he has joined the COE competition. With excellent ancient coffee, it successfully entered the boutique coffee market.

Flavor and quality of coffee

El Salvador is a producer of high-quality commercial Arabica beans and is famous for its strict and effective quality control.

Since 2003, he has joined the COE competition.

With excellent ancient coffee, successfully entered the boutique coffee market.

Coffee flavor is related to the microclimate of the producing area. On the whole, Salvadoran coffee inherits the mild quality of Central American coffee. It is soft, slightly sour and has beautiful sweetness, so it is suitable for blending.

Boutique Salvadoran coffee can also be impressive, including some pacamara varieties, which show active acidity, layered and deep taste, and a long finish. Coffee variety

The civil war caused chaos and affected economic development, but ironically allowed the ancient coffee to be preserved, and the situation was so chaotic that coffee producers in El Salvador failed to catch up with the renewal of coffee varieties in Central and South America.

El Salvador produces 100% Arabica coffee, of which 68% is Bourbon, Coffea arabica var. Bourbon), 29% Pacas, other varieties including Pacamara,Caturra, etc.

The Pacas variety, first discovered in El Salvador in 1949, is a natural hybrid between bourbon and Catura.

The variety Pacamara, which was artificially bred by pacas and maragogipe (or maragogype), was first bred in 1958 (1954). Pacamara species is a rare artificial breeding of excellent varieties, blue is better than blue, perfectly inheriting the advantages of the mother plant, both the excellent taste of pacas species, raw bean granules also inherited the large size of malagogipe. The Pacamara species is thought to be the result of the pursuit of large Arabica species.

Coffee planting

Most of them are planted by small farmers. Grading of farmers in El Salvador: (1 htct= 105mu = 10000 square meters)

Small farmers, small producer, area less than 7.0hect

Medium-sized peasant household, medium producer, area between 7. 0-70hect

Large farmers, large producer, the area is larger than 70hect.

Farmers use traditional planting methods, with almost 100% shade planting.

Coffee harvest

Pick by hand.

The harvest season lasts from October to March. The peak occurs from November to February.

Coffee treatment

Wash and dry in the sun.

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