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The World's Coffee Estate - Finca El Injerto

There are over ten thousand coffee estates worldwide, ranging from those producing commercial coffee beans to high-quality estates and those cultivating rare varieties. Today, we'd like to introduce you to Finca El Injerto, a renowned premium coffee estate from Guatemala.

Estate Introduction

Finca El Injerto is located in the famous Huehuetenango Highlands region of Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been cultivating coffee there since 1900. The estate name "Injerto" comes from a local fruit name. Finca 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 Aguirre family's efforts, Finca El Injerto has earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a consistent winner in many international coffee competitions since 2002.

Finca El Injerto (also translated as Graft Estate) is one of the top estates 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 estate owner further elevated their estate's status, organizing global auction activities similar to Panama's famous Finca Hacienda La Esmeralda. Of course, the auction beans they release are exceptionally remarkable. Notably, the first batch of "Mocha variety" in 2012 set a world record, being auctioned at the incredible price of "$500.5 per pound," becoming a truly deserved star estate!

For this auction, Finca El Injerto specially launched the "BEST Injerto" series, featuring carefully selected small batches and coffee varieties from within the estate. Experienced farmers handpick ripe coffee cherries, after which cuppers eliminate batches that don't meet quality standards. Under such strict selection criteria, Pacamara varieties from Finca El Injerto 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 produced at Guatemala's Finca El Injerto set a record price of $80.2 per pound of green beans in 2008. The variety's origin and name come from a cross between the large bean Maragogype and Pacas varieties, taking the first four letters of Maragogype and Pacas to form Pacamara. It's an excellent coffee variety developed in El Salvador, with coffee beans that are very large and similar to elephant beans, approximately 21-22 screen size. It has been an outstanding coffee variety in Central and South America in recent years, with every country or farm hoping to find suitable areas to cultivate this variety and produce excellent coffee, similar to Panama's Geisha. Pacamara coffee characteristics include bright fruit 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, with some flavors truly belonging to superstars, such as Honduras' 2006 champion Santa Martha, El Salvador's 2007 third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Estate), Guatemala's regular COE champion estate El Injerto, and El Salvador's 2008 runner-up Pacamaral estate. These are all excellent Pacamara representatives, but they are all award-winning batches, so prices are very expensive.

Pacamara plants are medium to tall with short internode spacing, large, corrugated, dark green leaves, and new leaves that are green or brown in color. The trunk is hard and sturdy, with thick, wide branches.

More lateral branches than Typica, similar to Pacas.

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

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 Maragogype beans.

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

Pacamara offers full, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties have both fruit acidity and noticeable sweetness, with diverse changes including stone fruit, vanilla plants, tropical fruits, chocolate, and spice sweetness.

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473 Shelf Life: 90 days Net Weight: 100g Packaging: Bulk Organic Food: No Coffee Bean State: Roasted Beans Sugar Content: Sugar-free Origin: Guatemala Roast Level: Medium Roast

Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Country: Guatemala

Grade: SHB

Estate: Finca El Injerto

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Pacamara

Batch: Auction Batch Pandora Fatima EI07

Flavor: Chestnut, Plum, Chocolate

For pour-over brewing of El Injerto: Use 15g of coffee, medium grind (Fuji Royal hand grinder setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water and let bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and pause, wait until the water level drops to halfway, then slowly pour until reaching 225g total. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

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