El Salvador

Las Brumas, WFC, Honey SL28, El Salvador

crisp green grape · strawberry · Raspberry red

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What Drop Coffee says about this coffee

Flavour profile: A vibrant aroma of ripe raspberry. Flavor notes of crisp green grape and strawberry, with a white sugar sweetness. The finish is clean with a hint of strawberry tartness. Colour to describe flavour: Raspberry red Category: Adventurous Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: SL28 Process: Honey Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Harvest: March 2025 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $8.8 /Ib

Las Brumas Honey SL28 is produced by our longtime partner and friend, Ernesto Menéndez. Located in the forest of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, Las Brumas is totally different from any other coffee farm we've ever seen. At Las Brumas, Ernesto is doing a Wild Forest Coffee (WFC), inspired by how coffee was originally found in Yemen and Ethiopia. These SL28, Kenyan, coffee trees are spread out in the forest to be built up as wild grown as possible, without interfering with nature. He doesn’t apply and chemicals and just lets the nature create the character and strength of the coffee.

Nearly 70 years ago, the previous owner of the Drop Coffee exclusive farm Los Andes, planted SL28 se…

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

El Salvador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen

Farm or estate

Los Andes, Las Brumas

Producer

Ernesto Menéndez

Process

honey

Variety

SL28

Altitude

1460 to 2000 m

Not stated

region, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

How it sits among coffee from El Salvador

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from El Salvador: 244 of 578 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Drop Coffee describe this coffee as fruity. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from El Salvador; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from El Salvador, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All El Salvador coffees

What Drop Coffee says about itself

Organic

“In 2018, we relocated our roastery to Rosersberg, just north of Stockholm, where we currently operate as a certified organic roaster.” their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, highest

Colour to describe flavour: Raspberry red Category: Adventurous Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: SL28 Process: Honey Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Harvest: March 2025 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $8.8 /Ib Las Brumas Honey SL28 is produced by our longtime partner and friend, Ernesto… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

Variety

…strawberry, with a white sugar sweetness. The finish is clean with a hint of strawberry tartness. Colour to describe flavour: Raspberry red Category: Adventurous Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: SL28 Process: Honey Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Harvest: March 2025 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Farm

“Nearly 70 years ago, the previous owner of the Drop Coffee exclusive farm Los Andes, planted SL28 seeds on the farm, seeds which had been taken home to El Salvador from a hunting trip in Kenya.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Flavor notes of crisp green grape and strawberry, with a white sugar sweetness.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

Processing

…with a white sugar sweetness. The finish is clean with a hint of strawberry tartness. Colour to describe flavour: Raspberry red Category: Adventurous Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: SL28 Process: Honey Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Harvest: March 2025 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $8.8 /… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Producer

…crisp green grape and strawberry, with a white sugar sweetness. The finish is clean with a hint of strawberry tartness. Colour to describe flavour: Raspberry red Category: Adventurous Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: SL28 Process: Honey Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Harvest: March 2025 Price transparency: The FOB price… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“Flavor notes of crisp green grape and strawberry, with a white sugar sweetness.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 1 fact on this page was read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for it.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.