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Firebat El Salvador Los Pocitos Whole Bean, 12oz

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

Roasted for any brew method. 

This is whole bean coffee, need your coffee ground? Check out out grind selection chart to choose your perfect grind for your brewing needs.

Specifications

Roast level: Medium roast

Tasting notes: Cacao nibs, brown sugar, creamy

Origin: Chalatenango, El Salvador

Variety: Pacamara

Process: Washed

Elevation: 1,700MASL

More Info

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 flavour 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. 

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.

Ingredients

100% whole bean decaf coffee.

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    Whole Bean Grind Chart

    If you are purchasing a bag of whole bean coffee on our website, you can select your grind method of choice (at no extra charge!) from the dropdown and we will grind and ship it to you. We grind the beans freshly for you at our warehouse in ECS Coffee Burlington right before your order is shipped, and reseal the package to maintain optimal freshness in transit.

    If you are visiting us in store, you can also request for your beans to be ground in store before you take them home.

    We use a commercial BUNN Burr Grinder to grind the beans.

    Please note: Freshly ground coffee is non-refundable and not returnable. To ensure that you receive a ground coffee that is consistent with your brew method of choice, refer to our Grind Chart below! 

    FINE

    For use with espresso machines. Fine coffee grinds will have the size and feel of sand.

    MEDIUM FINE

    Choose a medium fine grind if you are brewing with a Moka Pot, stovetop espresso brewers or an Aeropress.

    MEDIUM

    Cone Filter - We use two medium settings depending on your brewer. The Cone Filter medium setting is a bit finer, and is suitable for pour-over drip brewers (cone style) such as Hario, Melitta, Clever. It is also used for cone style automatic brewers.

    Flat Bottom Filter - This setting is suitable for coffee machines with a flat bottom basket filter, such as commercial automatic drip machines. It is also an appropriate setting for if you have a refillable coffee capsule for use in Keurig® machines. Medium coffee grinds will be around the same size as sea salt.

    PERCOLATOR

    If you are brewing with a percolator, the grind setting is a bit coarser than your standard medium grind, to minimize grinds making it through the filter. We use a percolator-specific setting on our grinder.

    MEDIUM COARSE

     Vaccuum brewers, Chemex. 

    COARSE

    For french press, cold brew coffee. A coarse grind is very chunky in look, like crushed peppercorns.

    Remember that this coffee grind chart is a guideline! If you use a coffee brewing method that is not listed here, feel free to reach out and we will let you know which grind is the best for your brewer.

    Click here to view a full resolution PDF of the chart with pictures of the grind sizes.

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    William d.
    Very nice.

    Hadn’t had Salvadoran coffee before and was quite pleased with it.

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