FrontStreet Coffee El Salvador Santa Rita Estate Santa Ana Volcano Yellow Bourbon Washed Freshly Roasted

Factory Name: Coffee Workshop
Factory Address: FrontStreet Coffee, No. 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk Coffee Beans
Roast Level: Roasted Coffee Beans
Origin: El Salvador
Roast Degree: Medium Roast

El Salvador Santa Rita Yellow Bourbon Washed SHG EP

Country: El Salvador

Estate: Santa Rita Estate

Region: Santa Rita

Grade: SHG

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Flavor: Wheatgrass, Roasted Nuts, Maltose

El Salvador is one of the small countries of Central America. Its coffee is light-bodied, aromatic, clean, and gently acidic, with excellent balance as its signature trait — a hallmark of Central American coffee, featuring a harmonious play of acidity, bitterness, and sweetness.

El Salvador ranks alongside Mexico and Guatemala as a major producer in the region, competing for the top positions in Central America. High-altitude coffees here feature uniformly large, full beans with rich, mild flavors. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, El Salvador grades its coffee by altitude — the higher, the better. It is divided into three grades by elevation: SHB (Strictly High Grown) for highland, HEC (High Grown Central) for mid-highland, and CS (Central Standard) for lowland. The best-known brand is Pipil, the Aztec-Mayan name for coffee, which has been certified by the Organic Certified Institute of America.

Yellow Bourbon is a variety whose ripe fruit is yellow in color. It was originally discovered in Brazil, where it is still mainly grown today. It is generally believed to have resulted from a mutation after hybridization between red-fruited Bourbon and a yellow-fruited Typica variant called "Amarelo de Botocatu." Yellow Bourbon is among the most outstanding varieties in terms of quality. While regular Bourbon cherries turn from green to yellow to red, Yellow Bourbon keeps its yellow appearance throughout ripening. Yellow Bourbon grown at high altitude and processed by natural sun-drying produces exceptional flavors.

February 2012: Coffee Review score of 94 points

Santa Rita Estate is located in the region north of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, at approximately 5,000 feet altitude. Santa Ana Volcano (Volcán Santa Ana in Spanish) rises in southwestern El Salvador, in Santa Ana Department, and is the country's highest peak at 2,362-2,381 meters (7,749 feet). Santa Rita is also a model estate for coffee production in El Salvador.

The flavor profile includes notes of wheatgrass, roasted nuts, and maltose, with a smooth mouthfeel reminiscent of milk cream. The acidity is well-rounded, complemented by sweet notes of brown sugar and hazelnut chocolate.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If the balanced, nutty sweetness of this Santa Rita Yellow Bourbon suits your taste, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil lineup is worth exploring. Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer, and its beans' moderate acidity and fine balance of sweetness, bitterness, and body make them ideal for medium roasts — think waves of nutty aroma, a mellow cup, and a whisper of acidity, perfect for single-origin brews or blends.

The FrontStreet Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic starting point. Cerrado is one of Brazil's best-known quality regions, and this semi-washed Red Bourbon at medium roast offers creamy peanut, toast, caramel, and hazelnut aromas, a rounded cup without sharp acidity, and only a light bitter edge. It brews beautifully as pour-over and is just as comfortable in a moka pot, as an espresso SOE, or in a siphon or French press. For something rarer, try the FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon from Mogiana, near southern Minas Gerais, where fertile red volcanic soil feeds the cherries. A natural mutation of Red Bourbon with a cleaner fruit character, it reveals a sugarcane sweetness unlike anything from other origins, along with fruit and chocolate notes.

Brazilian beans also anchor FrontStreet's espresso blends: the crema-rich FrontStreet Classic Blend, the nut-forward FrontStreet Premium Blend, the balanced FrontStreet Black Cocoa blend that many baristas recommend, and the cafe-oriented FrontStreet Commercial Blend. The Brazilian component contributes chocolate and cream aromas, gentle acidity and bitterness, and a balanced profile that keeps extraction stable shot after shot.