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Introduction to the flavor and taste characteristics of El Salvador Himalayan coffee varieties

Published: 2024-09-20 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/20, El Salvador (ElSalvador) is one of the small countries in Central America, where coffee is light, fragrant, pure, slightly sour and characterized by excellent balance of flavor. It is a specialty of Central America. With sour, bitter, sweet and other taste characteristics, the best baking degree is moderate, deep. Salvadoran Coffee-Coffee originated in the early 1990s, guerrilla warfare greatly damaged the country's national economy.

El Salvador (ElSalvador) is one of the small countries in Central America, where coffee is light, fragrant, pure, slightly sour and characterized by excellent balance of flavor. It is a specialty of Central America. With sour, bitter, sweet and other taste characteristics, the best baking degree is moderate, deep.

Salvadoran Coffee-Coffee Origin

In the early 1990s, guerrilla warfare greatly damaged the country's national economy, reducing coffee production from 3.5 million bags in the early 1970s to 2.5 million bags in 1990-1991. The eastern part of the country was most affected by guerrilla warfare, and many farmers and workers were forced to leave the manor. The shortage of funds has led to a sharp drop in coffee production, from 1200 kg per hectare in the past to less than 900kg per hectare today.

In addition, the government imposed an additional 15% tariff on exported coffee in 1986, that is, an additional 15% in addition to the existing 30% tax. Taxes, together with unfavorable exchange rates, have greatly reduced the export of coffee and the quality of coffee.

The government finally realized the great role of coffee in the national economy, such as solving employment, earning foreign exchange and developing agricultural production, so it privatized some coffee export industries in 1990, hoping to increase the income rate of coffee in the export market.

Today, this coffee accounts for 40% of the country's exports. The best quality coffee is exported from January to March, and 35% of the extra hard beans are exported to El Salvador, Germany. Although the land area is small, it has dozens of volcanoes and 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.

It has a positive effect on the aroma of coffee. In 2005, the Salvadoran mixed-race Pacamara boasted in coe, which confused many international cup testers and did not know how to grade it. It was never expected that this hybrid bean not only broke the mellow boundaries of coffee, but also expanded the visibility of Salvadoran coffee.

El Salvador boutique coffee is concentrated in the volcanic rock producing areas of Santa Ana in the west and Charantanan fruit in the northwest. The top 10 cup tests in recent years almost all come from these two producing areas, with an elevation of 9-1500 meters above sea level, mainly bourbon (68%). Followed by Pacas (29%), mixed-race Pakamara, du Laai and Kaddura accounted for only 3%

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