El Salvador Premium – Finca Noruega – Pacamara Natural

Burman Coffee Traders

Details

Origin

El Salvador

Process

Natural

Roast Suitability

Description

I always love Pacamara coffees. It is an 100% Arabica cross between Pacas, and Maragogype. Pacas is a very sweet strain of coffee, while Margogype has giant beans and a more robust cup profile often a bit on the earthy side. The cup adopts the best attributes of both. Slap a good natural processing on them and it creates a very tasty treat. Fruit forward, sweet, good body, rustic dark tone contrast, medium to low acidity with a creamier mouthfeel. El Salvador Finca Noruega Pacamara comes from 1380 masl in the Quezalapa canton, just outside the town of Apaneca. That is Ahuachapan, the western corner of the country, and it is steep coffee ground. Los Naranjos Cafe runs the farm. They planted it in 2017. It is now one of the sites for the Renacer Project, a development program that works with small and medium producers on cup quality. The farm carries Red Bourbon, Orange Bourbon, SL28 and Geisha. Close to a third of it is Pacamara, and this lot is all Pacamara. Apaneca is the highest town in El Salvador at 1455 masl. It sits in the spine of the Apaneca Ilamatepec range, the cordillera that runs across Ahuachapan, Sonsonate and Santa Ana. That range gave the country its first registered denomination of origin. Deep volcanic soil, shade, cool nights, slow ripening. Harvest runs December through March. This is also home ground for the variety. El Salvador’s national coffee research institute created Pacamara here as a cross of Pacas and Maragogipe. It throws some of the largest beans in the coffee world. Naturals are still fairly new territory here. Washed Bourbon has been the default in El Salvador for a long time. Naturals are catching on fast though, and this is a good one. The mill selects cherry by sugar content before it ever reaches a drying bed. From there it pre dries on patio for a few days. Then it moves onto raised beds for another 20 to 30 days of controlled solar drying. It comes off when it settles between 10 and 12 percent moisture. The result is clean and