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Salvador - Apaneca - Ahuachapan - El Cerro - SHG EP - Honey

PacamaraHoney

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About this coffee

This Pacamara Honey is produced in the shade of the trees on the El Cerro farm. They ensure that the coffee trees are well nourished and that the cherries develop to their full potential.

During the harvest period, between December and February, pickers are trained to select only fully ripe cherries. This allows El Cerro and its producer Fernando "Leto" Escobar to bring you the full potential of this coffee.

This taste for perfection can also be found in the process, which is carried out directly on the farm. This is a honey process, in which the finest cherries are picked before being dried and pulped on drying beds.

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  • Origin

    El Salvador
  • Region

    Apaneca Ilamatepec
  • Terroir

    Ahuachapan
  • Farm

    El Cerro
  • Producer

    fernando escobar
  • Species

    Arabica
  • Variety

    Pacamara

  • Process

    Honey

  • Drying

    Drying beds

  • Packaging

    69kg - Jute bags

  • Altitude

    1500
  • Harvest period

    December - February
  • Type of harvest

    Manual

The farm El Cerro

El Cerro is a farm located on the Apaneca llamatepec mountain range, near the town of Apaneca. The altitude of El Cerro is ideal for producing excellent speciality coffees. It has been in the family of Fernando "Leto" Escobar for 5 generations.

12 people work at El Cerro all year round. At harvest time, around thirty seasonal workers join them to pick the cherries by hand and process them at the El Cerro wetmill. 

Although the entire farm is dedicated to coffee production, it is surrounded by a dense forest with a rich biodiversity. The coffee trees grow under the shade of indigenous trees

that were there long before the farm was built. This forest provides plenty of moisture and nutrients to the soil, generating compost whose nutrients are carried to the foot of the coffee trees by the rain.

  • Total number of hectares

    23
  • Number of hectares cultivated

    23
  • Altitude

    1500
  • Environment

    Mountainous
  • Ground

    Sandy

Meet fernando escobar

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A few words about fernando escobar

Fernando "Leto" Escobar is the owner of the El Cerro farm. The farm has been in the Escobar family for 5 generations. Fernando "Leto" Escobar began producing and selling El Cerro coffee in 2014, as his family had always done. 

It's worth noting that, at the time, he had another job as well as working on the farm. Over time, however, coffee became a passion for him, and in 2016 he decided to devote himself 100% to El Cerro. He replaced the old coffee trees, which were struggling to produce, with new varieties adapted to the farm's climate and separated into different sections to guarantee fine traceability.

Now a Q-Grader, he later set up his own washing station to process his coffees before exporting them. Today, thanks to his work, El Cerro is a renowned farm in El Salvador, and Fernando 'Leto' Escobar a respected producer.

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2022/2023

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Density

730g/l

Humidity level

10.7%

Water activity

0.5777aw


Screen

+13


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