Himalaya
Sweet and syrupy, Himalaya is a naturally processed coffee from El Salvador that is exceptionally balanced. When hot, this coffee is extremely sweet with a full body and a pleasant bitterness. As it cools, deep and jammy fruits emerge—we think of blackberry jam and dried cranberries—adding a layer of complexity cutting through the full body and sweetness.
We see this coffee being a medium/light roast, depending on how you brew it can present itself very differently. Want to highlight that body and the chocolatey notes? Try grinding fine with a 1:16 coffee to water ratio. Want that acidity to be highlighted? Try coarsening that grind and extend your brew ratio to 1:17 or 1:18!
Average cost per 8oz cup: $1.26
Sweet and syrupy, Himalaya is a naturally processed coffee from El Salvador that is exceptionally balanced. When hot, this coffee is extremely sweet with a full body and a pleasant bitterness. As it cools, deep and jammy fruits emerge—we think of blackberry jam and dried cranberries—adding a layer of complexity cutting through the full body and sweetness.
We see this coffee being a medium/light roast, depending on how you brew it can present itself very differently. Want to highlight that body and the chocolatey notes? Try grinding fine with a 1:16 coffee to water ratio. Want that acidity to be highlighted? Try coarsening that grind and extend your brew ratio to 1:17 or 1:18!
Average cost per 8oz cup: $1.26
Sweet and syrupy, Himalaya is a naturally processed coffee from El Salvador that is exceptionally balanced. When hot, this coffee is extremely sweet with a full body and a pleasant bitterness. As it cools, deep and jammy fruits emerge—we think of blackberry jam and dried cranberries—adding a layer of complexity cutting through the full body and sweetness.
We see this coffee being a medium/light roast, depending on how you brew it can present itself very differently. Want to highlight that body and the chocolatey notes? Try grinding fine with a 1:16 coffee to water ratio. Want that acidity to be highlighted? Try coarsening that grind and extend your brew ratio to 1:17 or 1:18!
Average cost per 8oz cup: $1.26
CUPPING NOTES
Blackberry jam, dried cranberry, milk chocolate, toasted almonds, hibiscus, creamy, full body.
MORE ABOUT THIS COFFEE
Known as “the land of volcanoes,” El Salvador is the smallest Central American country (roughly the same size as New Jersey), but its reputation among specialty-coffee-growing regions has grown larger-than-life, especially since the early 2000s. While coffee was planted and cultivated here mostly for domestic consumption starting in the mid-1700s, it became a stable and significant crop over the next 100 years, notably increasing in national importance during the late 1800s, when the country’s indigo exports were threatened by the development and widespread marketability of synthetic dyes.
As coffee grew in economic importance, different government programs designed to increase production through land, tax, and military-exemption incentives created a small but strong network of wealthy landowners who gained control over the coffee market, in addition to the individual smallholders who were growing coffee as part of their subsistence farming and would sell their cherry to the larger estates or mills.
By the late 1970s, coffee exports accounted for 50 percent of the GDP, but socioeconomic and political unrest hurled the country into civil war for more than a decade, and in the 1980s various land-redistribution projects and agrarian reform disjointed the coffee industry and caused the market to decline. Lacking the resources to continue farming, producers abandoned their coffee farms, and many were left overgrown and unharvested for years until a peace agreement was reached in the 1990s.
It is often said that the Cup of Excellence competition, which came to El Salvador in 2003, was the beginning of the new “wave” of interest in Salvadoran coffee, shining the first light on some of the special varieties the small country grows.
(Cafe Imports)
GROWER
Mauricio Salaverria, Finca Himalaya
ELEVATION
1,500 Meters
VARIETY
Anacafe 14
PROCESSING
Natural
50¢ from the sale of all coffee bags go to Angels’ Place - A Pittsburgh based non-profit that cares for the children of single parents who qualify as low-income. This enables the parent to continue their own education or career, benefiting both generations.
SHIPPING: We ship orders on Tuesdays and Fridays. Order cutoff is 12pm the day PRIOR to the ship day. If you ever feel your coffee is not fresh enough, just let us know and we’ll replace it.
Domestic shipping is free for orders of $50 or more. Otherwise, it is a $7.50 flat rate anywhere in the US. We ship everything via UPS Ground.
NOTES ON GRINDING: If you choose “French Press” grind, expect it to be finer than usual, so you’re guaranteed good extraction. Some ultra fine coffee particles will make it through the screen and create a flavorful, albeit slightly opaque cup. In other words, we choose flavor over aesthetics. If you want to keep your cup looking cleaner, choose a pour over grind.
If you don’t see your preferred grind in the options then simply let us know in the notes section at checkout and we’d be happy to grind it for your favorite brewing method.
