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Guatemala Injerto Flavor Profile and Guatemala Injerto Coffee Characteristics

Published: 2026-01-28 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/28, Professional barista exchange. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). [Estate Introduction] Injerto Estate is located in the famous highland region of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been cultivating coffee since 1900. The estate name "Injerto" comes from a local fruit name. Injerto Estate places special emphasis on ecological environment protection and organic cultivation methods.

Farm Introduction

Finca El Injerto is located in the renowned Huehuetenango highlands of Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been cultivating coffee here since 1900. The farm name "Injerto" is derived from a local fruit name. El Injerto places special emphasis on environmental protection and organic cultivation techniques, implementing strict quality control to ensure the quality of green coffee beans. Through the efforts of the Aguirre family, El Injerto has earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a frequent champion in numerous international coffee competitions since 2002.

El Injerto Farm (also translated as Grafting Farm) is among the top farms in Guatemala. If it claims to be second, probably no one would dare to claim first! It has won many world-class competition awards, leading to its current achievements. Last year, the farm owner further elevated their farm's status, similar to Panama's renowned La Esmeralda. El Injerto (Grafting Farm) holds global bidding events. Of course, the bidding beans they offer are exceptionally remarkable. Notably, the first batch of "Mocha Variety" in 2012 set a world record, being sold at an astonishing price of "$500.5/pound USD," becoming a truly star farm!

For this bidding, El Injerto specially launched the "BEST El Injerto" series, selecting small batches of exceptional quality and coffee varieties from within the farm. Experienced farmers meticulously select ripe coffee cherries, which are then screened by cuppers to eliminate batches that don't meet quality standards. Under such strict selection criteria, the Pacamara variety from El Injerto accounts for approximately 8% of total production.

Hand-poured El Injerto: 15g of coffee, medium grind (using Fuji's ghost burr grinder at setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops to half, then slowly pour until reaching 225g. Discard the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

About the Pacamara Variety

The Pacamara variety gained worldwide fame through the Cup of Excellence (COE) in 2004, frequently winning championships within 2-3 years. Pacamara produced by Guatemala's El Injerto set a record price of $80.2 per pound for green beans in 2008. The variety's origin comes from crossing the giant bean Maragogype with Pacas, taking the first four letters from Maragogype and Pacas to form Pacamara. It's an excellent coffee variety developed in El Salvador. The coffee beans are very large, similar to elephant beans, approximately 21-22 screen size. It has been an outstanding coffee variety in Central and South America in recent years. Every country or farm hopes to find suitable regions to cultivate this variety and produce excellent coffee, similar to Panama's Geisha. Pacamara coffee is characterized by bright fruit acidity and exceptionally pure, delicate sweetness. Although the Pacamara variety's appearance is still quite similar to its cousin - the elephant bean variety. Since 2006, COE has cupped Pacamara from 30 farms, with some flavors being truly superstars, such as Honduras' 2006 champion Santa Martha, El Salvador's 2007 third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Farm), Guatemala's regular COE champion El Injerto, and El Salvador's 2008 runner-up Pacamaral farm. These are all outstanding representatives of Pacamara, but they are all award-winning batches, thus very expensive.

Pacamara plants are medium to tall with short internodal spacing, large corrugated dark green leaves, with new leaves appearing green or brown. The trunk is hard and stout, with thick, wide branches.

More lateral branches than Typica, similar to Pacas.

The cherries have a small protrusion at the floral disc position.

The coffee beans are large, oval-shaped, approximately 1.03 cm in length, 0.71 cm in width, and 0.37 cm in thickness.

Depending on altitude, Pacamara beans are about 70% the size of Maragogype beans.

Overall, almost all Pacamara beans are above 17 screen size, with over 90% being 18 screen size or larger.

Pacamara offers full, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties combine both fruit acidity while maintaining noticeable sweetness, with diverse notes including drupe fruits, vanilla herbs, tropical fruits, chocolate, and spice sweetness.

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf life: 90 days
Net weight: 100g
Packaging: Bulk
Organic: No
Coffee bean state: Roasted
Sugar content: Sugar-free
Origin: Guatemala
Roast level: Medium roast

Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Country: Guatemala
Grade: SHB
Farm: El Injerto
Roast level: Medium roast
Processing method: Washed
Variety: Pacamara
Batch: Competition batch Pandora de Fatima EI07
Flavor: Chestnut, plum, chocolate

Guatemala Pacamara - Competition batch Pandora de Fatima - Pacamara PI07

World's Coffee Farm - El Injerto

There are over ten thousand coffee farms worldwide, including those that produce commercial coffee beans, high-quality coffee bean farms, and farms that cultivate rare coffee varieties. Today, we're introducing El Injerto Farm, a renowned top-tier coffee farm from Guatemala that enjoys international prestige.