El Salvador Finca Himalaya Honey Process Red Bourbon Specialty Coffee Beans Cultivation Conditions and Geographic Location

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El Salvador Finca Himalaya

Country: El Salvador

Estate: Finca Himalaya

Region: Santa Ana

Altitude: 1580-1720 meters

Varieties: Red Bourbon, Typica

Processing Mill: El Divisadero

Flavor Notes: Plum, brown sugar, red wine acidity

About Project Origin

Sasa Sestic, the 2015 World Barista Champion, launched a green bean sourcing project called Project Origin three years ago with his business team, ONA Coffee. The project works directly with coffee farmers in impoverished countries and regions, improving their production conditions and paying 20% above fair-trade prices.

The project also set out to strengthen the connection between roasters and farmers while guiding farmers toward cultivating high-quality beans. To date, Sasa has built relationships with coffee growers in eight countries, among them Brazil, Panama, India, Ethiopia, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.

Manufacturer: Dazhen Coffee / FrontStreet Coffee
Address: No. 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City
Contact: 020-38364473
Ingredients: House-roasted
Shelf Life: 30 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast Level: Roasted coffee beans
Origin: El Salvador
Coffee Type: Other

Processing Method: Semi-washed

Finca Himalaya lies in the renowned Santa Ana region, on the Apaneca mountain range, at altitudes between 1,580 and 1,720 meters. It is one of the few estates managed by Aida Batlle, with Bourbon as the primary cultivated variety.

The estate's beans are washed at Mauricio Salaverria's El Divisadero processing mill in Ataco, then dried evenly on African raised beds using sunlight and ventilation. Mauricio inherited the business from his parents and grandparents, growing up with coffee from childhood and focusing particularly on specialty cultivation.

Flavor Description: Red wine acidity, plum, brown sugar, full-bodied mouthfeel, long-lasting aftertaste

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Finca Himalaya's plum-and-brown-sugar sweetness is your kind of cup, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazilian beans make an easy, everyday alternative. The Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is the classic Brazilian single origin: medium roasted, it shows rich creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut aromas, with a rounded body, no acidity, and a light bittersweet finish. It is as comfortable in a moka pot, an espresso SOE, a siphon, or a French press as it is as pour-over.

For a rarer, fruitier Brazilian coffee, choose the Brazil Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon from Mogiana near South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil lets the fruit develop a full aroma. Yellow Bourbon is a red Bourbon mutation with a cleaner fruit profile, delivering the sugarcane sweetness, fruit, and chocolate notes that other origins do not have — whether you brew it as pour-over, in a moka pot, or on a home espresso machine.

Brazilian coffee's low acidity, balance, and friendly price also make it the first choice in many specialty espresso recipes. FrontStreet Coffee's Classic Blend (rich crema), Premium Blend (dense nut flavor), Black Cocoa Blend (well balanced), and Commercial Blend (built for cafés) all contain Brazilian beans, lending chocolate and cream aromas and a soft sweet-sour-bitter balance that favors stable extraction.