Description
The Pacas Family has been producing coffee for five generations, and selling it domestically in El Salvador. Thirty years ago they decided to process and export their coffees for the first time. Ever since, they have worked towards achieving high-quality coffees, caring for the environment and the communities around the farms and mill. One of the Pacas Estate farms is Finca La Esperanza. It is located on the western side of El Salvador and in its fertile soil, the Pacas Family produces 8 different varietals of coffee. This farm is 87 hectares and provides jobs for more than 100 people.
The Pacas family is renowned for they were the first to come up with the Pacas strain of coffee, it even took on their family name! Although this offering is a blend of different strains, it definitely does contain some Pacas.
Tasting Notes: A wonderful honey processed El Salvador coffee. Light roasts are full of lemony floral tones, on the sweet side, just a hint of a fruit tone balanced with a dry nutty/chocolaty undertone. A bit front loaded, the lighter tones dominate the cup with just hints of the dry nutty lingering in the aftertaste. Medium roasts develop the darker tones nicely turning it much more chocolaty muting a decent chunk of the floral front end. Many will like the medium roast best for its sweet and smooth while maintaining hints of exotic floral and fruit. Darker roasts drop out most of the acidity but still retain a bit of the more floral factor especially in the aromatics.
Roasting Notes: A bit chaff heavy but a gem of a bean, good screen and very low defect count. To see it shine keep it before the second crack. Clean enough for light roasts but will have more potent acidity that might be too much for some. Right at first crack is where one will get those dry nutty undertones, any development past that will bring a much richer and developed darker tone. Setup at any roast level really helps smooth out the cup tone and pop out many more little delicate flavor notes.
John L (verified owner) –
Even though this bean isn’t in my preferred taste “wheel house”, it’s a real nice coffee. Roasted beautifully to to Full City, the beans were perfectly uniform in color. Light bodied, sweet,somewhat earthy. Floral and fruity, but not overwhelmingly so. Didn’t pick up any of the chocolate notes. Nice change of pace to my usual fuller-bodied chocolate-forward origins.