Tesoros Del Pais Green Unroasted Coffee Beans Ahuachapan, El Salvador Single Estate High Elevation (10 lb, Honey Washed)

These are raw green coffee beans from a single estate in the highlands of Ahuachapan, El Salvador. These are a very exclusive, hard to get bean, and they are not an every day blend of coffee. These will make an extraordinary cup of coffee depending on how you roast and brew them of course. The cupping score is 86, and they have a lightly acidic, citrusy flavor, with hints of apricot, sugar cane, and stone fruit. Professional and amateur roasters all over the US, Canada, and even Germany have tried them and love them. They can be used to make a straight batch of only single estate el salvadorian, or a nice blend with any other beans you have to suit your taste.

• These are raw, green coffee beans. They aren't roasted. If you try to brew them green, it will taste like earthy water. Some people kind of like this, but its not the conventional way most people consume coffee. When coffee beans are raw, they are a greenish/yellowish color. They're also very hard and would be difficult to grind. Different coffee drinkers have their own preferences on how to roast them. We imagine most consumers of these beans would roast them.
• We at Tesoros have tried this particular crop at different roast levels, and found a light roast, right after second crack, to be excellent. The flavors you will get out of a light roast is a stone fruit, red grape, citrusy, acidic taste. It is also high in caffeine comparatively to other beans. You will notice. These are fresh, Fall 2022 harvest
• Most of the beans on the farm where these come from are Bourbon variety, but there is some Costa Rica 95, Pacamara, and Geisha in this blend. The flavors of the beans come from the sunlight exposure, moisture, soil composition, and nutrients. This farm is like heaven, a sun drenched mountain top with light morning rains, hot afternoons, cool breezes in the evening. You can taste this in the beans.
• Honey washed and non honey washed, and packed in 3 and 5 lb vacuum bags. They're both processed at the same facility, but the honey washed ones have a bit of pulp left on them during the drying process. This leaves on a little bit of extra natural sugar. If you're a professional roaster, its fun to experiment with various drying and preperation beans to see what kind of flavors you can get on different roast levels. We have had great feedback with these beans.
• Green coffee beans last for a long time, they start to degrade in flavor and smell after roasting. Still, tempature and moisture aren't friends of the beans, so we keep them grainpro sealed until we portion them out, and then we vaccum seal them so they have minimum air exposure before they get to you.