Finca Injerto Single Origin Coffee Beans Flavor Description Growing Varieties Cultivation History Characteristics

Pacamara Variety Characteristics

Pacamara offers full-bodied, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties possess both fruit acidity and prominent sweetness while also displaying diverse notes of drupe fruits, vanilla, tropical fruits, chocolate, and spiced sweets.

Product Information

Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Content: 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: El Injerto Estate
Roast Level: Medium roast
Processing Method: Washed
Variety: Pacamara
Batch: Competition batch Pandora de Fatima EI07
Flavor Notes: Chestnut, plum, chocolate

Brewing Instructions

For pour-over brewing of El Injerto: use 15g of coffee, a medium grind (Fujiyama serrated burr grinder #4), a V60 dripper, and water at 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water and bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and pause, wait until the water level drops to halfway, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g in total. Avoid the tail section. Coffee-to-water ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Guatemala Pacamara Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima - Pacamara PI07

El Injerto Estate - A World-Renowned Coffee Estate

There are more than ten thousand coffee estates worldwide, ranging from those producing commercial coffee to high-quality estates and those cultivating rare varieties. Today we introduce the prestigious top-tier estate from Guatemala: El Injerto Estate.

Estate Introduction

El Injerto Estate is located on the famous Huehuetenango highlands in Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been growing coffee there since 1900. The estate name "Injerto" comes from a local fruit name. El Injerto Estate places special emphasis on ecological protection and organic cultivation, implementing strict quality control to ensure the quality of its 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) ranks among the top estates in Guatemala. If it claimed second place, probably no one would dare claim first. It has won numerous world-class competition awards, which led to its current standing. Last year the estate owner raised the estate's status even higher. Like Panama's famous Hacienda La Esmeralda, El Injerto Estate hosts global bidding events, and the competition beans it offers are exceptional. Notably, the first batch of "Mocha variety" in 2012 set a world record, fetching an astonishing price of $500.5/pound USD and making it a truly deserved star estate.

For this competition, El Injerto Estate specially presented the "BEST El Injerto" series, carefully selecting small batches of exceptional quality and varieties from within the estate. Experienced farmers meticulously select ripe coffee cherries, after which cuppers eliminate batches that don't meet quality standards. Under such strict selection, 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 a record price of $80.2 per pound for green beans in 2008.

Its origin and name: it is a derived variety from the elephant bean Maragogype and Pacas. Taking the first four letters of Maragogype and Pacas creates "Pacamara." It is an excellent variety developed in El Salvador. The beans are very large, similar to elephant beans, about 21-22 screen size. It has been an outstanding variety in Central and South America in recent years. Every country or farm hopes to find suitable regions for cultivating it, much as with Panama's Geisha. Pacamara's characteristics include bright fruit acidity and an 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, some with truly superstar-quality flavors—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 outstanding representatives of Pacamara, but they are all award-winning batches, which makes them very expensive.

Botanical 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 sturdy, with thick, wide branches.

It has more lateral branches than Typica, similar to Pacas.

The cherries have a small protrusion at the floral 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 17, with over 90% being screen 18 or larger.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If a clean, competition-style pour-over is what you are after, FrontStreet Coffee's single-origins are a good place to look. The FrontStreet Panama Esmeralda Red Label Geisha brings elegant jasmine, citrus, bergamot, and black tea with a transparent body and a long finish—much like the clarity a competition Pacamara can show. For something juicier and more fruit-driven, the FrontStreet Kenya Small Tomato is a fully washed Kenyan single-origin that pours with cherry tomato, dried plum, snow pear, and black plum over a yellow-sugar sweetness. Both are best brewed as pour-over on a V60, where their acidity and aromatics come through clearly.