Panama Flint Estate Bean Flavor and Aroma Panama Coffee Varieties and Prices

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: FrontStreet Coffee, 10 Security Front Street, Yandun Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast Level: Green/Roasted: Roasted coffee beans
Contains Sugar: No sugar
Origin: Panama
Roast Level: Medium roast

Panama Jurutungo Honey Catuai

Country: Panama
Grade: SHB
Region: Volcancito Region
Roast Level: Medium roast
Processing Method: Honey process
Variety: Catuai
Processing Mill: Finca Lerida Estate
Flavor Notes: Lemon, orange, cranberry, green tea

Cupping Notes

Dried fruit aroma, rich fruit acidity, noticeable sweetness on entry, with lemon, orange, cranberry, and green tea. The texture is uniform and smooth, soft, with some floral notes and a long-lasting aftertaste.

Catuai

Catuai is a coffee variety artificially hybridized from Caturra and Mundo Novo, and it resists natural setbacks, particularly wind and rain, relatively well.

Catuai trees are short compared with other coffee trees. The fruit grows more firmly and is not easy to harvest. The cherries come in both red and yellow types, and to date no taste difference has been found between them. In fact, some cuppers have found that although some yellow-fruit coffees have good acidity, their cleanliness falls short of red-fruit processed coffees.

Catuai was cultivated in Brazil and is now widely grown across Central America.

Panama's premium coffee grows in the western part of the country, near Costa Rica and close to the Pacific Ocean. Coffee from the Boquet district of Chiriqui province is the most famous, with Volcan, Santa Clara, and Candela also well known. Other regions include the David district, Remacimeinto district, Bugaba district, and Tole district. Only coffee grown at altitudes between 1300 and 1500 meters is considered specialty coffee.

Catuai is a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra, which makes it a second-generation hybrid. It inherits Caturra's advantage of short tree height. The name Catuai comes from an indigenous language and means "very good." As a member of the Arabica family, Catuai yields relatively heavily.

Brewing Method

Pour-over Panama Volcancito Estate. 15g coffee grounds, medium grind (small Fuji ghost tooth grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g water, steam for 27 seconds, pour to 105g then stop. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half, then continue pouring slowly until 225g. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Catuai traces its roots to Brazil, where it was first cultivated before spreading across Central America, so tasting Brazilian coffee is a natural next step from this Panamanian lot. FrontStreet Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic Brazilian single origin from Cerrado, a well-known region prized for high-quality beans. It is a Red Bourbon, the variety common across South America, and a medium roast brings out rich aromas of creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut, with a rounded body, low acidity, and a light bitterness. It is versatile too: pour-over, moka pot, espresso SOE, siphon, and French press all work well.

If you want a different facet of Brazil, FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon comes from Mogiana near Sul de Minas. The fertile red volcanic soil there feeds the fruit and builds a full aroma, and the estate pairs traditional farming with modern, standardized management, which has raised local quality considerably. This rare Yellow Bourbon began as a mutation of Red Bourbon and delivers a cleaner fruit character; brewed as pour-over, in a moka pot, or on a home espresso machine, it shows a sugarcane sweetness other origins rarely offer, along with fruit and chocolate notes.

Brazilian beans also anchor many FrontStreet espresso blends, where their chocolate and creamy aromas and gentle sweet-sour-bitter balance make extraction more stable. FrontStreet Classic Blend brings rich crema, FrontStreet Specialty Blend leans nutty, and FrontStreet Dark Cocoa Blend is the balanced all-rounder many baristas recommend, while FrontStreet Commercial Blend is designed for cafe use.