How Much Does El Salvador Himalaya Coffee Cost - El Salvador Himalaya Coffee Price

Flavor Description

Wine-like acidity, plum, brown sugar, a full-bodied mouthfeel, and a long aftertaste.

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 coffee sourcing project called Project Origin with his team at ONA Coffee three years ago. The project works directly with coffee farmers in poorer countries and regions, improving their production conditions and paying them prices 20% above fair trade rates.

The project's broader aim is to strengthen the bond between roasters and farmers while guiding growers toward higher-quality coffee. To date, Sasa has built relationships with coffee producers in eight countries, including Brazil, Panama, India, Ethiopia, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.

Bourbon was first cultivated on Réunion Island, called Île Bourbon before 1789. Put simply, Bourbon is a variety within the Arabica species. It typically produces red cherries—hence Red Bourbon—though Yellow Bourbon and Orange Bourbon also exist; Yellow Bourbon yields less but cups better.

Typica is one of the oldest Arabica varieties. Sometimes called the heirloom small-grain coffee, it is low-yielding and difficult to cultivate, which makes it considerably more expensive than ordinary commercial coffee. Typica traces back to southeastern Ethiopia and Sudan and remains the most widely planted variety in the Western Hemisphere.

How to Brew It

For a pour-over, use 15g of coffee at a medium grind (Fuji ghost tooth blade grinder at setting #4) in a V60 dripper with water at 88–89°C. Pour 30g of water first and bloom for 27 seconds, then pour to 105g and pause. Once the water level has dropped to half, continue pouring slowly up to 225g, discarding the tail end. The water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, with a total extraction time of 2:00.

Processing

Washed

Finca Himalaya sits in the celebrated Santa Ana region on the Apaneca mountain range at around 1500 meters, and is one of the few estates managed by Aida Batlle. Its main variety is Bourbon.

The estate's coffee is washed at the El Divisadero mill in Ataco, owned by Mauricio Salaverria, then dried evenly on African raised beds with plenty of sunlight and airflow. Mauricio inherited the business from his parents and grandparents, grew up around coffee, and devotes particular attention to specialty lots.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If this plum-and-brown-sugar Salvadoran profile appeals to you, FrontStreet Coffee's Strawberry Candy Geisha Blend makes a sweet step up: it marries a honey-processed Costa Rica component with washed Panama Geisha, roasted medium so the cup shows both orange-blossom honeyed sweetness and a rounded, juicy sweetness—lovely as a cold brew, pour-over, or espresso. FrontStreet's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1, also medium roasted, is another balanced choice, layering chocolate, roasted nuts, cream, and caramel over an elegant, harmonious base.