*NEW RECESSION PROOF BANGER #15* El Salvador - Los Angeles

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Hands up for a boozy and fruity natural? Hands up for a recession proof price point? I got ya!

This is the 2nd time we’ve had coffee in from Los Angeles in El Salvador, they bring the good stuff. This is a nice big chunky Pacamara bean, lovely to roast, and lovely in the cup. If you like a funky natural then go for this, it’s roasted light/medium and should work well across all brew methods. You probably know the score for recession proof releases, we don’t have much of it and it goes pretty quick, grab a bag, tell your friends. Gold for the price of silver.

THE COFFEE ITSELF

The coffee is grown at Finca Los Angeles, a beautiful 40 acre farm planted with Pacamara (big boy beans) in the Ahuachapán mountain range in the west of El Salvador. Headed up by Sigfredo Corado, a retired agronomy professor, for the past 10 years, they don’t use any herbicides, instead relying on natural practices and a high standard of agronomy to replenish the soil and provide a solid base for growing coffee. The farm is broken into 23 sections with approximately 3000 trees in each section, beautifully divided with shade trees and wind barriers to protect the trees.

The coffee is selectively harvested and from here it then is taken to the wet mill and drying beds at Beneficio San Rafael located between the two hills of El Pilon and Cerro Aguila. Here the Pacamara undergoes washing and thermal shock processing before being dried on raised beds.

The farm is also part of the Renacer program (reborn in Spanish), a technical coffee field school and educational program for producers in the area to learn about better farm management practices. The school is led by Sigfredo with 6 field technicians to help small to medium producers in the area by focusing on best farm practises that are restorative for the land and soil as well as beneficial for the yield and quality of the coffee. The school teaches the 4 R’s:

Right Source.
Right Dose.
Right Place.
Right Moment.

This year they have 60 students at technical school where test plots are available where they can implement the knowledge gained in class before applying it to their own farms.