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Pour-over Panama Firestone Estate. 15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Fuji ghost tooth blade #4), V60 dripper, water at 88-89 degrees Celsius. First pour 30g water and bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and stop, 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.

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 Caruai

Country: Panama

Grade: SHB

Region: Firestone growing region

Roast Degree: Medium roast

Processing Method: Honey process

Variety: Catuai

Processing Mill: Firestone Estate

Flavor Notes: Lemon, orange, cranberry, green tea

Cupping Notes: Dried fruit aroma, rich fruit acidity, noticeable sweetness on entry. Lemon, orange, cranberry, green tea. Uniform and smooth texture, soft with hints of floral notes. Long-lasting aftertaste.

Catuai

Catuai is a coffee variety artificially hybridized from Caturra and Mundo Novo. It resists natural disasters well, especially wind and rain.

The Catuai tree is relatively low-growing. Compared with other coffee trees, Catuai fruit grows more compactly and is harder to pick. The fruit comes in both red and yellow types. To date, no superior taste has been found in yellow fruit compared with red. In fact, some cuppers have found that while coffee processed from yellow fruit can have good acidity, its cleanliness is inferior to that of red fruit.

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

Premium Panama coffee is grown in the western part of the country, near Costa Rica and close to the Pacific. Coffee from the Boquete region of Chiriqui province is the most famous, with Volcan, Santa Clara, and Candela also well known. Other regions include the David, Remacimeinto, Bugaba, and Tole areas. Only coffee grown at altitudes between 1,300 and 1,500 meters is considered specialty coffee.

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

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

The honey-processed Catuai above is a great example of how Panama's highlands can deliver both fruit and clarity. If you want to taste the origin at its most iconic, FrontStreet Coffee's Panama Boquete Washed Gesha is an estate-grade introduction to the variety. Grown at 1,600 meters on fertile volcanic ash soil, it pours a cup of jasmine, green tea, honey, citrus, and orange, exactly the profile that made Boquete famous.

For a rounder, more everyday expression from the same region, FrontStreet Coffee's Panama Washed Butterfly is a natural companion. It blends Geisha with Caturra and Catuai, all planted in Boquete's Baru volcano area, where abundant rainfall, big day-night temperature swings, and volcanic rock soil shape the cup. The result is impressive depth, citrus acidity, and Gesha's jasmine aroma, and it is equally good as pour-over or cold brew.