Tesoros Del Pais Green Unroasted Coffee Beans Ahuachapan, El Salvador Single Estate High Elevation (Wet Milled, 3 lb)

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Grown in high altitude in Ahuachapan, El Salvador

Discover our exclusive coffee beans sourced from a singular estate atop Apaneca, El Salvador. Situated at 4600-4800 feet above sea level, this estate hosts a variety of Arabica coffee plants, including Bourbon, Geisha, Pacamara, and Costa Rica 95. Each thrives under distinct conditions of wind, sunlight, and moisture.

Coffee Paradise in El Salvador

Positioned south of Guatemala, El Salvador enjoys a Pacific Ocean coastline. Its climate, characterized by warmth and humidity, combined with elevated forested regions featuring nutrient-rich volcanic soil, provides an ideal setting for coffee cultivation.

El Salvador’s Coffee Industry Challenges

A mere decade ago, El Salvador was exporting over 12 million quintals of coffee in large burlap sacks. With the right labor and transportation, a single farm could yield dozens or even hundreds of quintals. Coffee harvesting is labor and capital intensive, and economic issues have significantly impacted El Salvador’s coffee production. In 2022, exports dropped to less than 1 million quintals.

Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 6 x 3 inches; 3 Pounds
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Tesoros Del Pais
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CG2TJT45
Units ‏ : ‎ 48.0 Ounce
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This is a 3 lb bag of wet milled, or lavado, coffee beans. They are slightly different from the honey washed variety as they do not have the mucelage left on them when they are dried, and thus have a slightly different acidity profile, as well as different flavor notes from having less sugar content. We do make a 5 lb bag as well, but this is a three pound bag.
We at Tesoros have tried this particular crop at different roast levels, and found a light roast, right after second crack, to be excellent. The flavors you will get out of a light roast is a stone fruit, red grape, citrusy, acidic taste. It is also high in caffeine comparatively to other beans. You will notice.
Most of the beans on the farm where these come from are Bourbon variety, but there is some Costa Rica 95, Pacamara, and Geisha in this blend. The flavors of the beans come from the sunlight exposure, moisture, soil composition, and nutrients. This farm is like heaven, a sun drenched mountain top with light morning rains, hot afternoons, cool breezes in the evening. You can taste this in the beans.
Honey washed and non honey washed, and packed in 3 lb and 5 lb ecotact bags. They’re both processed at the same facility, but the honey washed ones have a bit of pulp left on them during the drying process. This leaves on a little bit of extra natural sugar. If you’re a professional roaster, its fun to experiment with various drying and preperation beans to see what kind of flavors you can get on different roast levels. We have had great feedback with these beans.
Green coffee beans last for a long time, they start to degrade in flavor and smell after roasting. Still, tempature and moisture aren’t friends of the beans, so we keep them grainpro sealed until we portion them out, and then we portion them into ecotact bags to provide maximum barrier to moisture.
These are raw, green coffee beans. They aren’t roasted. If you try to brew them green, it will taste like earthy water. Some people kind of like this, but its not the conventional way most people consume coffee. When coffee beans are raw, they are a greenish/yellowish color. They’re also very hard and would be difficult to grind. Different coffee drinkers have their own preferences on how to roast them. We imagine most consumers of these beans would roast them.