El Injerto Estate Single Origin Coffee Beans: Growing Information, Flavor Description, Brewing Suggestions, and Awards

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Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Country: Guatemala

Grade: SHB

Estate: El Injerto

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Pacamara

Batch: Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima EI07

Flavor Notes: Chestnut, Plum, Chocolate

Pour-over brewing for El Injerto: 15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Fuji Royal grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour with 30g water for 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and wait until the water level drops to half, continue slow pouring until reaching 225g. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Guatemala Huehuetenango Pacamara - Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima-Pacamara PI07

The World-Class Coffee Estate - El Injerto

There are over ten thousand coffee estates worldwide, including those that produce commercial coffee beans, high-quality coffee beans, and rare coffee varieties. Today, I'd like to introduce El Injerto, a renowned top-tier coffee estate from Guatemala that has earned international acclaim.

Estate Introduction

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

El Injerto Estate (also translated as "Grafting 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, similar to Panama's famous Hacienda La Esmeralda. El Injerto Estate hosts global bidding competitions, and of course, the competition beans they offer are exceptionally remarkable. Notably, the first batch of "Mocha variety" in 2012 set a world record, reaching an astonishing price of "$500.5/pound USD," making it a truly star-studded estate!

For this competition, El Injerto Estate specially presented their "BEST El Injerto" series, featuring carefully selected small batches and coffee varieties of exceptional quality from within the estate. Experienced farmers meticulously handpick 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 produced by Guatemala's El Injerto Estate reached an astonishing price of $80.2 per pound for green beans in 2008. The origin of the variety and name: It is a hybrid derived from Maragogype (Elephant Bean) and Pacas varieties, taking the first 4 letters of Maragogype and Pacas to form "Pacamara." It is 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. The characteristics of Pacamara coffee include bright fruit acidity and exceptionally pure, delicate sweetness. Although Pacamara's appearance is 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 El Injerto, and El Salvador's 2008 runner-up Pacamal Estate. These are all excellent Pacamara representatives, but they are all award-winning batches, making them very expensive.

Pacamara plants are medium to tall with short internodes, large, corrugated, dark green leaves, and new leaves that are green or brown. 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, almost all Pacamara beans are above screen size 17, with over 90% being screen size 18 or larger.

Pacamara offers full, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties possess both fruit acidity and noticeable sweetness, with diverse notes including stone fruits, vanilla plants, tropical fruits, chocolate, and sweet spices.

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
Bean State: Roasted Coffee Beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Guatemala
Roast Level: Medium Roast

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