Tesoros Del Pais Green Unroasted Coffee Beans Ahuachapan, El Salvador Single Estate High Elevation (Wet Milled, 3 lb)($41.38Value)

Description

This is a 3 lb bag of wet milled, or lavado, coffee beans. They are slightly different from the honey washed variety as they do not have the mucelage left on them when they are dried, and thus have a slightly different acidity profile, as well as different flavor notes from having less sugar content. We do make a 5 lb bag as well, but this is a three pound bag. 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. 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 lb and 5 lb ecotact 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 portion them into ecotact bags to provide maximum barrier to moisture. 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. These are raw, green coffee beans which are unroasted. We offer them in honey washed, and non honey washed, or wet milled (lavado). The difference is when the outer fruit pulp of the coffee is removed, how much of the pulp remains on the bean. The pulp has natural sugars in it, and when the fruit is milled thus removing the beans, they can be dried with some of the pulp on the beans, or washed which removes all or most of the pulp and then dried. When drying honey processed coffee, a longer time is needed because of the mucelage. Typical concrete bed drying can be as short as 3 days, or as long as 15. Ours are dried 15 days. After processing, the beans are packed in grainpro bags, which are the industry standard for transporting coffee beans. The freshness is kept in, the outer elements like pests and moisture are kept out. We transport and export our own product through Tesoros Del Pais S.A de C.V, a company in San Salvador. The coffee is loaded onto a container, shipped to the USA, and stored in a tempature controlled warehouse until it is either roasted, or unpacked and vacuum sealed for direct sale. Raw green coffee is an excellent product for a roaster to use, and these beans can be roasted light, medium, or dark. The honey washed beans especially make a great espressso. We had our first roast done at Jones Coffee of Pasadena, CA, and they decided that light roast was the best, as these beans have a delicate and complex flavor that really comes out without a lot of heat. We have tried them at all roast levels, and they are great at any level, so it mostly is a matter of personal taste. These beans were graded at Los Ausoles labritorio in Ahuachapan, El Salvador. They were ranked an 86, which is an excellent score. Most grocery store coffee is about a 60, and the cupping score depends on a wide range of factors. Whether you want to try a 3 lb, or 5 lb, wet milled, or honey washed, you'll be certain to find enjoy this crop.