Firebat Coffee Roasters - Los Pocitos, El Salvador - Medium Roast (340 g)

Firebat Coffee's beloved pacamara washed is back again and this time from one of the greatest Salvadoran specialty coffee producers of all times, Ignacio Gutierrez.

The Roast

Pacamara can be famous of being citric in the lighter roast but in the medium roast it turns as if roasted cacao and coffee were fused together. Pacamara washed from Los Pocitos has a solid creamy body with cacao and baked brown sugar undertones. It's a great coffee for a thick espresso shot or for a pour-over. Its thick body makes it syrupy and with a lingering cacao aftertaste.

We recommend brewing this one for espresso (double shot) using 18.5g in a double basket. For pour over methods we recommend a 16:1 water to coffee ratio, with water below boiling point.

The Bean

Pacamara descends from a beautiful lineage of two beans that compose the most culturally and genetically important groups of Arabica coffees in the world.

The origins of this exotic bean can be traced back to 1958 to the Institute of Coffee Studies in El Salvador. As the result of experiments, Pacamara was made crossing Pacas (a bourbon mutation discovered also in El Salvador) and Maragogype. The amalgamation of both varieties resulted in a sweeter and heavier body than bourbon bean with such deep and great flavor notes that often than not dominates cupping events such as Cup Of Excellence.

Pacamara thrives best in higher altitude with cooler climate. It is resistant to wind and its tree size makes it easier to be harvested in steep terrain, making it a very suitable for the Salvadoran geography of high mountainous areas like Chalatenango, where Los Pocitos is located.

This pacamara is washed processed. After harvest, the coffee was washed to remove the cherry and fruit mucilage covering the bean, and then spread on raised beds at Ignacio's farm and turned regularly to allow slow, even drying of the beans for 7 to 10 days.

• Origin: El Salvador (Single-Origin)
• Region: Chalatenango
• Tasting Notes: Cacao nibs, brown sugar, creamy
• Roast Level: Medium
• Variety: Pacamara
• Elevation: 1700 MASL
• Producer: Ignacio Gutierrez
• Process: Washed

About Firebat Coffee Roasters

Firebat Coffee Roasters believe they cannot add flavour or quality to the coffee. Their job is to carefully roast the beans to find the right spot to highlight the bean's potential flavours and showcase the producer's hard work. Their commitment is to preserve the quality achieved in the farming and processing stage.

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