El SalvadorFilter Coffee - Diego Baraona - Bourbon Elite Washed
toffee · apple
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What Paso Paso says about this coffee
A Rare Coffee Heritage – El Salvador Bourbon Elite Washed
The Bourbon Elite variety, planted over 100 years ago by Diego Baraona’s forefathers, is a testament to resilience and tradition. This coffee represents the unique history of El Salvador’s coffee industry, offering unparalleled sweetness and a clean, crisp flavor.
A Legacy of Resilience: Planted over a century ago, these original Bourbon Elite trees are a direct mutation of Typica. While many farms replaced them due to rust challenges, Diego Baraona has preserved them to protect his family's heritage.
Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at 1,450 MASL in the rich soils of Usulután, El Salvador, this variety is renowned for an unparalleled toffee-like sweetness balanced by a light, apple-like acidity.
Innovative Mechanical Washing: This lot undergoes a meticulous washing process using a mechanical demucilager, which uses centrifugal force instead of traditional fermentation to remove the mucilage, yielding an incredibly clean cup.
The Story of Bourbon Elite
After the specialized washing process, the beans are slowly dried on raised…
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What the roaster says about where it came from
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How it sits among coffee from El Salvador
Paso Paso describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet. 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
Altitude, lowest
“Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at 1,450 MASL in the rich soils of Usulután, El Salvador, this variety is renowned for an unparalleled toffee-like sweetness balanced by a light, apple-like acidity.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Variety
“A Rare Coffee Heritage – El Salvador Bourbon Elite Washed The Bourbon Elite variety, planted over 100 years ago by Diego Baraona’s forefathers, is a testament to resilience and tradition.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Flavour families
Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at 1,450 MASL in the rich soils of Usulután, El Salvador, this variety is renowned for an unparalleled toffee-like sweetness balanced by a light, apple-like acidity… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Country of origin
“A Rare Coffee Heritage – El Salvador Bourbon Elite Washed The Bourbon Elite variety, planted over 100 years ago by Diego Baraona’s forefathers, is a testament to resilience and tradition.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Roast level
…➔ Roast Profile: Light-Medium Roast 2/5 on our development scale to balance sweetness and acidity. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Tasting notes
Exceptional Usulután Terroir: Cultivated at 1,450 MASL in the rich soils of Usulután, El Salvador, this variety is renowned for an unparalleled toffee-like sweetness balanced by a light, apple-like acidity… part of a longer passage 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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