El Salvador Honey Process Castillo
El Salvador Honey Process Castillo
El Salvador Honey Process Castillo
The cup's sweetness is punctuated by unrefined sugar flavors, with mild fruited hints, and buoyant mouthfeel. Notes of panela, cacao nibs, ginger, and dried apricot. City to Full City+. Good for espresso.Full Cupping Notes
The dry fragrance has an interesting scent that's a combination of honey and rustic date sugars, with a hint of dried fruit, and a top layer of fresh green herbs that have a savory-sweetness, like fresh marjoram. The wetted coffee grounds stir up sweet notes of molasses, dark honey, and barley malt syrup. The cup carries a sweet undercurrent that yields raw sugar and fruited accents after the coffee cools down a bit. The level of sweetness is quite nice, punctuated by notes of panela/piloncillo type raw sugars that have a high molasses content. Fruit flavors are subtle, but come up a bit as the coffee cools, hinting at dried apple and fruit chutney, along with an aromatic note of candied ginger. Body has a buoyant mouthfeel, with moderate bittersweet notes, like rustic cacao nibs, and extra dark chocolate. This makes an excellent espresso, bittersweet and chocolatey, with a hint of brightness that had a slight citric quality, and subtle background hints of dark fruit.
Product Overview
Product Overview
| process method | Honey Process |
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| cultivar | Modern Hybrids |
| farm gate | Yes |
Farm Notes
Farm Notes
Origin & Farm Notes
This honey process lot is from Finca Miravalles, where we chose to source the majority of our El Salvador coffees this past harvest. Honey processing starts off the same as wet processing, in that the outer cherry is removed using a depulping machine. Here's where things differ. Instead of fermenting the coffee to remove the sticky fruit mucilage from the green seed ("bean"), the coffees is dried with that fruit still intact. Honey processing was popularized at micro mills in Costa Rica, but has become a popular choice in many other parts of the world. It tends to lead to big body, and sometimes imparts fruit flavors in the cup. This lot isn't so much fruity, but definitely a creamy-bodied coffee that is going to work wonders in the medium-to-dark roast range for brewing, and also as espresso. Finca Miravalles is owned by the Duarte family, and is located in Apaneca, Ahuachapan, not too far from the Santa Ana volcano. You can see the nearby town of Atiquizaya from the farm slopes. Miravalles is about 1500 meters above sea level, and the farm is a patchwork of cultivar separations. This lot is Castillo, a variety developed in Colombia by crossing Caturra and Catimor to be high yield and have some disease resistance. Check out our video tour of Finca Miravalles.
Specs
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Technical Specifications
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| recommended espresso | Yes |
El Salvador Honey Process Castillo
