A brief introduction to the flavor, taste and aroma characteristics of fine coffee beans in Mercedes Manor

There are more than 3000 ancient buildings distributed in Pelourinho District, San Antonio District and Soderay District of the ancient city of Salvador, among which Pelourinho District is the most reflective of the ancient city style. It is the largest building complex built in Latin America during European colonial rule, and many buildings have the ancient architectural style of Portugal.

El Salvador is tied with Mexico and Guatemala as the producer of Asa and Meldo, and is competing with other countries for the top one or two places in Central America. Highland origin, for the size of large coffee beans, fragrant taste mild. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude, with the higher the altitude, the better the coffee, and divided into three grades according to elevation: SHB (strictly high grown)= high, HEC (high grown central)= medium high, CS (central standard)= low; the best brand is Pipil, the Aztec-Mayan name for coffee, which has been approved by the Organic Certified Institute of America.

Top quality beans: Salvador SHB

Taste characteristics: acid, bitter, sweet mild moderate.

El Salvador is one of the small countries in Central America, where coffee is light, aromatic, pure, slightly acidic, and the flavor characteristics are excellent balance, which is a specialty of Central America. It has sour, bitter and sweet taste characteristics, and the best baking degree is moderate and deep.

In the early 1990s, guerrilla warfare greatly disrupted 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 their estates. The shortage of funds has caused coffee production to plummet, from 1200 kilograms per hectare in the past to less than 900 kilograms per hectare today.

In addition, in 1986 the Government imposed an additional 15 per cent duty on coffee exports, i.e. 15 per cent on top of the existing 30 per cent tax. Taxes, combined with unfavourable exchange rates, severely reduced coffee exports and, with them, quality.

The government finally realized the huge role of coffee in the national economy, such as employment, foreign exchange and agricultural production, so in 1990, it privatized part of the coffee export industry, hoping to increase the yield 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 Germany.

Salvadoran coffee

Flavor: balanced taste, excellent texture

Recommended baking method: medium to deep, with multiple uses

El Salvador is tied with Mexico and Guatemala as the producer of Asa and Meldo, and is competing with other countries for the top one or two places in Central America. Highland origin, for the size of large coffee beans, fragrant taste mild. As in Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude, with the higher the altitude, the better the coffee. There are three grades according to altitude: SHB (strictly high grown)= high ground, HEC (high grown central) CS (central standard)= lowland; the best brand is Pipil, the Aztec-Mayan name for coffee, which has been approved by the Organic Certified lnstitut eof America

In El Salvador, Cusca Bappa produces the finest coffee beans, which are slightly lighter in weight, aromatic, pure and slightly acidic. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude, with the higher the altitude, the better the coffee. The best brand is Pip, whose quality has been recognized by the American Organic Certification Society. Another rare coffee is Pakmara coffee, a hybrid of Pacas coffee and Malagojipi coffee, best grown in western El Salvador, adjacent to Santa Ana, near the border with Guatemala. Pakmara coffee is full in grains but not too strong in aroma El Salvador is one of the small Central American countries with a very dense population. People love coffee here. Salvadoran coffee tastes well balanced. Salvadoran coffee exports account for 40 per cent of national exports. The best quality coffee is exported from January to March each year, and 35% of the extra hard beans are exported to Germany. In the early 1990s, El Salvador's national economy was greatly damaged or even destroyed due to the impact of war. The production of coffee dropped from 3.5 million bags in the early 1970s to 2.5 million bags in 1990- 1991. El Salvador, located in northwestern Central America and bordering the Pacific Ocean in the south, is one of the birthplaces of ancient Mayan civilization.

The volcanoes, plateaus, lakes and bathing beaches along the Pacific coast are all very pleasant. But El Salvador is best known for its unique, mild-tasting coffee-the ancient city was one of the main centers of the African slave trade during colonial rule. In 1558, the first African slaves arrived and began to cultivate sugar cane. Until the mid-18th century, this port of El Salvador became the main trading center of Portugal; it was located on the route of triangular trade between Africa, Brazil and Europe. Many European immigrants settled in the city.

In the seventeenth century, when Portugal was still under Spanish rule, El Salvador was frequently attacked by the Dutch. Many forts were built to defend the city. In 1625, the city returned to Portugal rule.

Built on a peninsula that juts into the Atlantic Ocean, this ancient city occupies the end of a mountainous island with a steep slope dividing it into the city above

And the city below (upper, lower), can be reached by lift or climbed on foot. The walls remain arched along the steep slope. The upper city overlooks the activities of the city below. The upper city has baroque buildings and many small squares, communal buildings, dwellings and gardens. They are quaint and elegant, better preserved than downtown. The streets here are numerous and narrow, patterned with black and white stones; the lower town has the Modrow Market near the port, where houses and people revolve around the port and commerce, where the slave trade was once very popular and now it is a very busy handicraft market

Salvador has a large number of buildings from the sixteenth century and religious buildings, many of which are decorated with sculptures from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many of which are striped with colored clay, reflecting the characteristics of the colonial period. Its overall character is described by a forest of monuments and a consistent vision. All this shows that El Salvador is a famous example of a city structured to fit a colony.

There are also buildings and houses of different styles built in the next two centuries. Salvador was an important meeting place of European, African and North American civilizations from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and a model for the successful transplantation of Renaissance urban architecture into colonial cities.

It has more than 160 churches (another source: "76 churches in the city"), the largest number of churches in Latin America. There are lines and bright lines

Gothic church with beautiful shape; Baroque church with undulating lines and dynamic, luxurious and rich; The largest church is Vasilia Church; The oldest is the church of Matrice Conceicao; Built in 1549; The most magnificent church of St. Francis de Asis, decorated with 300 kilograms of gold and 80 kilograms of silver, is now a religious art gallery, showing visitors many historical relics, most of which are Catholic art.