El Salvador

Filter Coffee - Diego Baraona - SL28 Black Honey

fresh peach

FruityFor filter

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What Paso Paso says about this coffee

SL28 Black Honey - genetics and processing mastery

Originally from Kenya, the SL28 cultivar is renowned for its bright and crisp acidity. After a succesfull transition to the terroir of El Salvador it was also combined with Baraona's signature Black Honey resulting in an unique expression of this coffee.

SL28 crisp acidity: Developed in the 1960s by Scottish Laboratories in Kenya, this cultivar was selected for it's exceptional quality potential. In this lot it shines with notes of fresh peach.

Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at the highest part of Los Pirineos, the altitude of 1.600 MASL creates dense coffee beans resulting in delicate floral aromatics.

Mastered Black Honey Processing: The coffee cherries are depulped without any water and laid to dry on shaded beds in thick piles. The omni-present mucilage ferments and creates a deep-sweet honey flavour.

The Story of SL28

The SL28 cultivar originates from Scottish Laboratories (SL) in Kenya, where it was developed in the 1930s. Initially, the goal of the lab was to breed varieties well adapted to Kenya's dry growing climate. Different Typica and Bourbon varieties were studied and then selected for their drought res…

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What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

El Salvador, Kenya

Farm or estate

Sustainable Ecosystem Diego Baraona’s

Process

honey

Variety

Bourbon, Typica, SL28

Altitude

1600 m

Not stated

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

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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.

Paso Paso 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.

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Where each fact came from

Acidity, described

“Originally from Kenya, the SL28 cultivar is renowned for its bright and crisp acidity.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

“Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at the highest part of Los Pirineos, the altitude of 1.600 MASL creates dense coffee beans resulting in delicate floral aromatics.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Different Typica and Bourbon varieties were studied and then selected for their drought resistance, yield, and cup quality.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“In this lot it shines with notes of fresh peach.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“After a succesfull transition to the terroir of El Salvador it was also combined with Baraona's signature Black Honey resulting in an unique expression of this coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roast level

…➔ Roast Profile: Ultra-Light Roast 1/5 on our development scale. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“In this lot it shines with notes of fresh peach.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 3 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.

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