Panama Flint Estate Honey Process Catuai SHB Specialty Coffee Beans Grind Size Roast Level Processing Method

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast Level: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Panama
Roast Degree: Medium roast

Panama Jurutungo Honey Catuai

Country: Panama

Grade: SHB

Region: Firestone Region

Roast Degree: Medium roast

Processing Method: Honey processed

Variety: Catuai

Processing Mill: Firestone Estate

Flavor Notes: Lemon, orange, cranberry, green tea

Catuai

"Catuai" is a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra—essentially a second-generation cross. It inherits Caturra's advantage of a low-growing plant structure. The variety name comes from an indigenous language and means "very good." As a member of the Arabica family, Catuai is relatively high-yielding.

Panama Coffee Region

Panama's premium coffee is grown in the western part of the country, near Costa Rica and close to the Pacific Ocean. The coffee produced in the Boquete district of Chiriqui province is the most famous, with Volcán, Santa Clara, and Candela also well known. Other areas include the David district, Remacimeinto district, Bugaba district, and Tole district. Only coffee grown at altitudes between 1,300 and 1,500 meters is considered specialty coffee.

Cupping Notes

Dried fruit aroma and rich fruit acidity, with distinct sweetness on the entry. Notes of lemon, orange, cranberry, and green tea, with a uniform, smooth texture, soft with subtle floral notes, and a long-lasting aftertaste that lingers.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Honey processing gives this Panamanian coffee its roundness and sweetness, and if you enjoy that balance, Panama itself offers plenty more to explore. The easiest entry is FrontStreet Coffee's Boquete Gesha, an estate-level introduction planted at 1,600 meters; the fertile volcanic ash soil feeds rich aroma, and the cup shows the jasmine, green tea, honey, citrus, and orange that define Gesha. If you want the depth of a blend built around the variety, FrontStreet Coffee's Panama washed Butterfly has half Gesha lineage, combining Gesha, Caturra, and Catuai grown in Boquete's Barú volcano area—its special microclimate, plentiful rainfall, wide day-night temperature swing, and volcanic rock soil, together with careful picking and processing, give it impressive thickness, citrus acidity, and jasmine aroma, and it suits both pour-over and cold brew.

For the top of the range, FrontStreet Coffee's Esmeralda Red Label Gesha is the estate that both discovered and promoted Gesha flavour. To sharpen its quality, the estate cups different parts of the farm, assigns plots by altitude, and sets the grades we now know as Red, Green, and Blue Label. The Red Label is harvested from a single plot of Gesha above 1,700 meters, must cup at 91 points, and shows a refined orange-blossom and honeyed character. FrontStreet Coffee's Esmeralda Diamond Mountain comes from the estate's star brand, based mainly on Caturra and Catuai, with green beans taken from two of the estate's four independent farms, Jaramillo and Canas Verdes, where volcanic soil and primary forest shade give the beans rich fruit aroma and sweetness—making it a popular estate brand alongside the Gesha.

Panama's fruit-forward coffees respond well to a clean pour-over. Keep the water in the medium range, use a 1:15 ratio, and pour in stages so the citrus and floral notes stay bright rather than turning heavy.