EL SALVADOR - El Borbollon

Name: EL SALVADOR - El Borbollon
Brand: Microroastery
Availability: InStock

hazelnut · walnut · toffee · chocolate · cocoa

Nutty Caramel and sweet ChocolateFor espressoFor filter

£38.00/kg

17% below similar on their 200 g bag

£38.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.68 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 200 g bag at £40.00/kg against 44 coffees from 23 roasters in washed from El Salvador (standard bag, 200–350 g), so that every coffee is compared on the same size.

Price observed 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
200 g	£8.00	£40.00/kg
500 g	£20.00	£40.00/kg
1 kg	£38.00	£38.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 5% cheaper per kilo than the 500 g.

How it sits among coffee from El Salvador

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from El Salvador: 167 of 255 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Microroastery describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, nutty. 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 the roaster says about where it came from

Country

El Salvador

Producer

Alvarez

Process

washed

Variety

Red Bourbon

Altitude

500 m

Not stated

region, farm or estate, 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.

Where each fact came from

Acidity

“At medium roast, that character gets a gentle boost of caramelised sweetness and body without losing the origin's natural warmth: expect a smooth, full body with low acidity and a rounded, nutty sweetness that coats the whole palate.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

“Grown at 1,400 to 1,500 metres above sea level, this lot is 100% Red Bourbon, fully washed, and processed at the family's own El Borbollón mill — one of the region's most respected, having helped ten neighbouring farms place in Cup of Excellence competitions, four of them scoring above 90 points.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Body

Variety

“The Red Bourbon varietal is known for real sweetness and body, and the fully washed process — cherries pulped without water, fermented until peak sweetness, then washed clean — strips away anything that would muddy the cup, leaving pure varietal character to shine through.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

A medium roast El Salvador coffee that's all warmth and comfort — El Borbollón brings hazelnut, walnut, toffee and chocolate together in a cup that feels like a hug on a cold morning… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“A medium roast El Salvador coffee that's all warmth and comfort — El Borbollón brings hazelnut, walnut, toffee and chocolate together in a cup that feels like a hug on a cold morning.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

Producer

“The Little Details El Borbollón is produced by the Alvarez family, who have been growing coffee in El Salvador for over 100 years across four generations, from two neighbouring farms — La Reforma and Santa Maria — on the fertile slopes of the Santa Ana Volcano, in the Apaneca-Illamatepec region near the town of Santa Ana.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Cup score

Brew methods

“Try it as an espresso or a cafetière — this coffee has the body to stand up to both, and the sweetness really comes through when it's brewed strong.” 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.