El Salvador | Santa Maria | Mixed | Washed

Tasting Notes: Milk chocolate, stewed apple, & peanut butterRegion: Santa AnaProducers: Maria PacasProcess: WashedRecipe: Espresso - 1:2.5   |   Filter - 1:17About the farm:The influence the Pacas family has had in their country’s coffee industry is nothing short of amazing. When Gerardo Barrios (Salvadoran president between 1859-63) introduced the idea of growing coffee as a permanent crop, Don Jose Rosa Pacas, a lawyer by profession, seized this opportunity. 150 years of hard work later, the Pacas family hasn’t looked back. Maria Pacas (Don Jose’s Great-Great Granddaughter) and her siblings are the 5th generation coffee farmers, employing over 900 workers; including a few who started working for them when Maria was just a kid. The high cost of coffee production in El Salvador is challenging. It’s a crop that is very vulnerable, and many farmers are not meeting their cost, and are just abandoning their farms. Drinking this coffee supports a number of social projects funded by the