El Salvador SHG Bourbon

These beans were fully washed of all fruit and mucilage before drying, yielding only the pure taste of the beans. What you receive is a floral, fruity coffee with apple and hazelnut sweetness. The darker roasts give up the apples, leaving behind lemon peel and nuts.

• El Salvador
• Fully-washed
• Bourbon
• 1,600 Meters

Light Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Nuts, Chocolate and Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Floral
Floral
Apple Sweetness
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Lemon
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Pleasantly strong aromas of ripe apple and lemons are apparent at this roasting level.

Roaster’s Choice

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Hazelnut & Almond
Nutty, Cocoa​
Floral
Floral
Cooked Apple
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Lemon
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

We roast this coffee to a toasty medium to bring out the sweet hazelnut/almond cream while preserving the lemon notes.

Dark Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Hazelnut and Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Floral
Floral
Cooked Apple
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Dried Lemon Peel
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Highly caramelised, sweet and almond/hazel-nutty with a creamy finish. Just a touch of lemon peel is left to keep it balanced with a refreshing finish.

El Salvadore is home to a huge range of coffee farms, carefully growing pleasing, mild beans destined for use in top-end blends. However as you go higher up into the mountains, above 1,200 to 1,500 ft, you get into upper echelons of El Salvadore’s growers. Here, these specialty coffee beans are given the designation of Strictly High-Grown, or SHG for short. These beans hold their own, with distinctive flavours and aromas that well deserve your attention.

The beans in this batch are Bourbon, a varietal that excels when grown at high-altitudes, very slowly absorbing nutrients from the volcanic soils and developing their complex flavours. If you enjoy your coffee on the lighter side, you these Bourbon beans will fill your nose with the scents of sweet apples, fresh flowers and lemon citrus.

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.