Characteristics of Washed Bourbon Coffee from Santa Rita Farm

Introduction to El Salvador Coffee

El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. Coffee beans are the primary agricultural product in most regions, demonstrating the significant impact of coffee on El Salvador. 60% of the coffee beans are of the traditional Bourbon variety. The most prominent characteristics of Bourbon coffee are its clean, bright, sweet, and slightly acidic citrus flavor. Its derived varieties include Yellow Bourbon, Orange Bourbon, and Red Bourbon. In a coffee market that emphasizes uniqueness from each coffee farm, El Salvador has also embraced the trend of special processing methods and variety differences, allowing more and more interesting coffees to be discovered beyond those previously known. However, El Salvador coffee has always been loved for its rich aroma, the sweetness of brown sugar and honey, and its stable, smooth taste.

Coffee Harvest Season and Sustainability

The coffee harvest season in El Salvador runs from November to February of the following year. New beans are typically sold in the coffee market around June-August. For example, the El Salvador coffee finals of the Cup of Excellence (C.O.E) are mostly selected in mid-to-late July. Most coffees come from small and medium-sized farms. El Salvador coffee farms work closely with international coffee organizations, primarily aiming to increase individual farmers' income and further improve the quality of home and community life. This encourages coffee farmers to adopt cultivation methods that restore the natural ecosystem, gradually improving coffee quality, and making consumers willing to accept El Salvador-produced coffee. Combining consumption patterns with natural ecology represents the perfect agricultural production and marketing model.

Santa Rita Farm: A Model Coffee Estate

Located in the southwest, Santa Rita Farm is a model outstanding coffee estate in El Salvador. The owner is a farmer who is very courageous in trying various changes. For example, the natural process beans launched in 2009 caused a sensation. Then, in December of the same year, the PB (Peaberry) beans selected from 60 million pounds of coffee produced by the farm received a high score of 91 points from the professional coffee cupping website Coffee Review. The farm continuously updates its coffee varieties, with interesting coffee beans such as Orange Bourbon, Red Bourbon, and Yellow Bourbon found throughout the estate. I believe we should be able to taste honey-processed coffee from the farm in the next season. This is a farm worth long-term attention.

Light Roast Profile

Light roast - end of first crack (City): What surprised me most about the light roast was its clean, clear, and stable mango and lychee fruit sweetness, and this fruit sweetness persists from beginning to end without any fluctuations. The dry aroma after grinding has a strong peanut powder fragrance. After brewing, the taste has a refreshing, uncomplicated mint and licorice quality. The subtle acidity of orange and tangerine juice is quickly replaced by fruit sweetness, with the aftertaste finishing with the fruit sweetness of mango and lychee.

Dark Roast Profile

Dark roast - beginning of second crack (Full City): After grinding, the cocoa and brown sugar fudge aroma is firm. During brewing, it emits the fragrance of Black Forest chocolate cake. After the coffee cools slightly, there is the sweetness of cane sugar and brown sugar that gradually becomes brighter. The emulsified texture of milk candy is fragrant, pure, and elastic. The aftertaste is the sweetness of malt syrup distributed across the upper palate.

Brewing Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee suggests brewing El Salvador coffee with water at 89-90°C. The entry brings the sweet and sour tone of orange, tropical fruit flavors, the aftertaste of mango, and the sweetness of cane sugar.

Conclusion

Santa Rita is a standard traditional El Salvador Bourbon variety coffee bean. From light roast to dark roast, you can taste sweetness, and the complexity is not high with subtle and low acidity. The absolutely balanced and stable taste with smooth emulsification makes one feel fragrant and wonderful. This is a very sweet coffee with a wide roasting range.

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