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Pour-over Injerto Brewing Guide

15g coffee grounds, medium grind (small Fuji ghost tooth grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water, let bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and stop, wait until the water level drops to half, then slowly pour until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Pacamara Plant Characteristics

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

Compared to Typica, Pacamara has more lateral branches, similar to Pacas.

The coffee cherries have a small protrusion at the floral disc location.

The coffee beans are large and 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 Maragogipe beans.

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

Pacamara offers full, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties have both fruity acidity and prominent sweetness, with diverse notes of stone fruits, vanilla plants, tropical fruits, chocolate, and spice sweetness.

Product Information

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

Coffee Details

Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

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

Guatemala Pacamara - Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima Pacamara PI07

El Injerto Estate - A World-Class Coffee Estate

There are over ten thousand coffee estates worldwide, ranging from those producing commercial coffee beans to high-quality estates and those growing rare varieties. Today, we're introducing the renowned top-tier coffee estate from Guatemala - El Injerto Estate.

Estate Introduction

El Injerto Estate is located in the famous Huehuetenango highlands of Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been growing coffee here since 1900. The estate name "Injerto" comes from a local fruit name. El Injerto Estate places special emphasis on ecological protection and organic cultivation techniques, implementing strict quality control to ensure the quality of green coffee beans. Through the Aguirre family's efforts, El Injerto Estate has earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a frequent winner in many international coffee competitions since 2002.

El Injerto Estate (also translated as "Graft Estate") is among the top estates in Guatemala. If it claims to be second, no one would dare to claim first! It has won numerous world-class competition awards, leading to its current achievements. Last year, the estate owner further elevated their estate's status to new heights. Like the renowned La Esmeralda Estate in Panama, El Injerto Estate hosts global auction events. Naturally, the auction lots they release are exceptionally impressive. Notably, the first batch of "Mocha variety" in 2012 set a world record, sold at an astronomical price of "$500.5 per pound," becoming a truly star estate!

For this auction, El Injerto Estate specially featured the "BEST El Injerto" series, selecting small batches of exceptional quality and coffee varieties from within the estate. Experienced farmers carefully select ripe coffee cherries, and then cuppers eliminate batches that don't meet quality standards. Under such strict selection criteria, Pacamara varieties from El Injerto Estate account for only about 8% of total production.

About the Pacamara Variety

Pacamara gained worldwide fame through the Cup of Excellence (COE) in 2004, frequently winning championships within 2-3 years. Pacamara from Guatemala's El Injerto Estate set an astronomical price of $80.2 per pound for green beans in 2008.

The variety's name and origin: It's a derivative of the elephant bean Maragogype and Pacas. The name "Pacamara" is formed by combining the first 4 letters of Maragogype and Pacas. It's an excellent coffee variety developed in El Salvador. The coffee beans are very large, similar to elephant beans at about 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 for growing this variety to produce excellent coffee, similar to how Panama discovered Geisha. The characteristics of Pacamara coffee include bright fruity acidity and exceptionally pure, delicate sweetness.

Although Pacamara's appearance is still quite similar to its cousin - the elephant bean variety. Since 2006, COE has cupped Pacamara from 30 estates. Some flavors are truly superstars, such as: 2006 Honduras champion Santa Martha, 2007 El Salvador third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Estate), Guatemala's regular COE champion El Injerto, and 2008 El Salvador runner-up Pacamal estate. These are all excellent representatives of Pacamara, but they are all award-winning batches, making them very expensive.

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