Centroamericano H1 Coffee Beans

Warm spice, dried fruit, milk chocolate, good body. Centroamericano H1 tastes like a straight Arabica, not a disease-resistant compromise, and that's the whole point of it.

It's a Sarchimor hybrid, bred by El Salvador's coffee research foundation PROCAFÉ. Sarchimors cross Timor Hybrid, a natural Arabica-Robusta cross found in Timor in the early 1900s, with Villa Sarchi, a compact Bourbon mutation from Costa Rica. The Robusta side gives strong resistance to coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease. Centroamericano H1 was selected out of that group specifically because it kept the cup quality most disease-resistant hybrids lose.

Grown at high altitude in El Salvador and washed, then taken to a medium-dark roast, the spice and chocolate come through clean.

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