Las Brumas, WFC, Washed Pacamara

Origin

• 🇸🇻 El Salvador

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  55
• Experimental
  50
• Clean
  45
• Funky
  40
• Bold
  25
• Comforting
  25

Flavour profile: This coffee has a bright aroma. This is a transparent and crisp cup with flavour notes of apricot , orange and a touch of cinnamon . The coffee has a velvety sweetness of plum . The mouthfeelBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method. is light to medium with a finish of cider . Colour to describe flavour : Mild Orange Category: Curious Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: Pacamara Process: WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Harvest: March 2025 Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1460 - 2000 meters above sea level Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $5.75 US/Ib Las Brumas Anaerobic WashedAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. Pacamara is produced by our longtime friend Ernesto Menéndez. This year, we decided to release both the naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. and the washed process variants at the same time, as well as a honeyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. and a GeshaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction. to give you a special opportunity to try lots of great coffees from one farm side by side. At 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. Imagine how coffee was (and is to a tiny extent) grown in the wild, in Ethiopia and in Yemen. This is what has inspired Ernesto Menendez to plant coffee plants in the natural forest in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range in Santa Ana, El Salvador. The coffee plants are spread out in the wild and are treated as a part of nature. The coffee is growing very slowly, and the crop is fairly small, but not surprisingly, it has a depth of flavours, and the coffee comes out very complex. Located in the forest of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, Las Brumas is totally different from any other coffee farm we've ever seen. The coffee trees at Las Brumas are spread out in the forest to be built up as wild grown as possible, without interfering with nature. We've began working with Ernesto in 2015, and have been buying the coffee from his farms Las Brumas and Los Andes ever since. It was a relationship that started purely based on geekin