El Salvador Siberia Pacamara

This is the extremely rare Pacamara varietal from El Salvador, and not just that, but it is from the legendary Siberia Estatein the Santa Ana growing region. First: the varietal. Pacamara was born in El Salvador in the 1950's as a cross between the enormous "elephant bean" Maragogype and Pacas which is within the Bourbon family. Both varietals are low-yielding and harder to grow than modern hybrids, so Pacamara is a rarely grown bean. Pacamara's magic was discovered and released in the early 1990's after 30+ years of experiments by the El Salvadorian Institute of Coffee Research. The bean is so large that it is too big for sorting by coffee screens. Instead of being a 16/17, or 17/18, these would be screened as a 20/21 if such a screen existed. The farm: Siberia Estate was named as such because it is 4000 feet up a treacherous mountain, making it remote and difficult to reach. They have been growing coffee here since 1870, and it is now being farmed by the 4th generation of the same