Introduction to the flavor characteristics of coffee beans in the province of Avachapan in El Salvador

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El Salvador Avachapan coffee beans of single origin series

* producing area: Latin America

* degree of baking: medium baking

* processing method: washing treatment

* flavor: sweet citrus flavor

With a hint of milk chocolate flavor

Growth process

Hot spring eggs are almost known to everyone

Have you ever heard of hot spring beans?

The secret of Avachapan is

The source of water used in washing treatment

It is mainly made from hot spring water from the town of Agua Kalente.

Is a very rare way in the world.

The water temperature of the source is 85 degrees.

The spring is diverted to six hot spring pools at different elevations

The temperature to the sixth hot spring pool is about 32 Murray 34 degrees.

Then use the cooled hot spring water to process raw coffee beans.

This magical baptism enhances the sweetness of coffee.

The past

Coffee in every country has its origin.

Avachapan is the birthplace of coffee in El Salvador.

Coffee beans were first introduced to El Salvador in 1770.

Legend has it that two farmers accidentally found coffee while ploughing the fields.

Since then, it has affected the development of Avachapan.

Avachapan has had a long coffee family since 1890.

They were the first to grow, process and export coffee beans.

El Salvador is known as the "land of volcanoes"

The farm is located in the Apaenca-Lamatepec mountains.

Near Sante Ana, one of the most active volcanoes.

Sante Ana volcano

Place of birth

And those who came to Starbucks' single producing area for the first time

El Salvador Avachapan is planted in

Apaenca-Lamatepec Mountains

There are four active volcanoes in the area

Among them, Santa Anna broke out in 2005

It belongs to fertile volcanic soil.

The most common thing we hear in our country is

Red soil, black soil, purple soil, loess

Santa Anna is sandy soil.

This kind of soil has good drainage capacity, which is helpful to the growth of coffee trees.

Coffee seems to be full of native plants and volcanic soil.

The Master Coffee Book says: geography is flavor

The area is located at high altitude, with warm days and crisp nights.

The temperature difference between day and night is large.

Delayed the ripening time of coffee cherries.

Brew a richer flavor

This has become the local condition for growing Avachapan.

New beans in spring 2019

Starbucks single origin series

El Salvador Avachapan coffee beans

Sweet citrus and light milk chocolate flavor

Since coffee trees were first discovered in the fields of two farmers at the end of the 18th century, the history of coffee in El Salvador began in the Avachapan region. Coffee grows luxuriantly in the Apacaramatepec (Apaenca-Lamatepec) mountains, concealed by native vegetation and nourished by volcanic soil. Skilled coffee farmers maintain an accurate screening system. Coffee berries are carefully picked by hand and sent to the processing plant for processing. In this magical land, coffee farmers use their skills to give birth to coffee with a sweet and fruity flavor.

Alcohol: medium

Acidity: medium

Baking degree: medium baking

Origin of raw coffee beans: Latin America

Processing method: washing method

Food pairing: dark chocolate, cocoa and oranges--

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Formerly known as "San Salvador" and "Bahia". An important natural deep-water port on the Atlantic coast of Brazil, the capital of Bahia state. It is located on the east bank of Todos (Santos) Bay. With a population of 3459377 (as of August 1, 2010), it is the eighth largest city in Brazil. The ancient city, one of the oldest cities in Brazil, was founded in 1549, and the first churches were built by Jesuit priests in 1549. El Salvador was the capital of Brazil until 1763. It is a comprehensive industrial and commercial city. Oil is produced in the nearby Kandyas oil field. Industries include petroleum refining and petrochemistry, automobiles, food, tobacco, textiles, shipbuilding and so on. There are well-developed land and sea transportation and airports on the outskirts of the city. The port is open and deep, can berth ocean-going ships and super oil tankers, and export textiles, tobacco, coffee, oil and so on. The urban area is built on a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean, divided into high and low cities, with lifts and cable cars connected. Multi-colonial buildings and churches, as well as universities and museums. With beautiful seaside scenery, it is a tourist resort with more than 160 churches (another source: "there are 76 churches in the urban area"), making it the city with the largest number of churches in Latin America. There are bright lines

Scenery of El Salvador

Scenery of El Salvador

A beautiful Gothic church; a luxurious and luxurious Baroque church with undulating lines and a sense of movement; the largest church is the church of Vasilla; the oldest is the church of the Madonna of Martris; built in 1549 The most gorgeous St. Francis de Assis church, decorated with 300kg of gold and 80kg of silver, is now a religious gallery, showing visitors many historical relics. Among them, most of the Catholic works of art El Salvador's domestic topography is mainly mountains, plateaus, volcanoes, known as the "volcanic country", the Santa Ana active volcano 2385 meters above sea level, the highest peak in the country The northern part of the country is the Lompa River Valley and the southern part is the narrow coastal plain.

Climatic characteristics

El Salvador has a tropical climate, with an annual average temperature of 28 ℃; the dry season from November to April and the rainy season from May to October; the humid and hot coastal and lowland climate and cool mountain climate; the annual precipitation is more than 1800 mm in the mountains and about 1000 mm in the coastal zone.

Administrative division editor

Details of zoning

El Salvador is divided into 14 provinces, each with a total of 262 municipalities; the provinces are: Avachapan, SonSonat, Santa Ana, Laliberta, San Salvador, Charatnango, Cuscartland, La Paz, Saint Vicente, Cavanias, Ursulutan, San Miguel, Morasang and La Union.

Avachapan

Derived from El Salvador's Avachapan region, citrus fruit has a smooth flavor of milk chocolate with black cocoa aromas on the finish.

Avachapan province is located in the western province of El Salvador, the capital Avachapan, located on the border with Guatemala, is the westernmost region of Saldova and the most important coffee production center. Benefiting from the surrounding mountains, the Avachapan area is dominated by geothermal and hydroelectric power.

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 varieties of bourbon and Tibica, that is to say, El Salvador still uses the most traditional shade planting, which is of positive significance to the aroma of coffee. In 2005, the Salvadoran mixed-race variety Pacamara boasted in coe, which confused many international cup testers and did not know how to grade it. It never expected that this hybrid bean not only broke the mellow boundary of coffee, but also expanded the visibility of Salvadoran coffee from Pacamara to artificially cultivated varieties of Pacas and Maragogipe. 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 best flavor from El Salvador and Guatemala: balanced taste and good texture.

Recommended baking method: moderate to deep, with a variety of uses

Top quality beans: El Salvador SHB

Taste characteristics: sour, bitter, sweet mild and moderate.

Salvadoran coffee ranks side by side with Mexico and Guatemala as the producers of Asa and Merdo, and is fighting for the top one or two places in China and the United States with other countries. The highlands of origin are large coffee beans of all sizes, which are fragrant and mild in taste. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude. The higher the altitude, the better the coffee. It is divided into three grades according to elevation: SHB (strictlyhighgrown) = highlands, HEC (highgrowncentral) = mid-highlands, and CS (centralstandard) = lowlands. The best brand is Pipil, which is what the Aztec-Mayan (Aztec-Mayan) called coffee, which has been recognized by the American Organic Certification Society (OrganicCertifiedlnstituteofAmerica).