Equator Coffees
El Salvador Los Pirineos Konka

Refreshing and complex with flavors of dried mango, honeysuckle, and sugar cane, this fully washed Konka variety lot is the second of three coffees that we will be featuring this year from Finca Los Pirineos, along with their Black Honey Pacamara. Start your day with this delicious light roast coffee from an award-winning farm. DIEGO BARANOA Named in honor of the Pyrenees, the mountain range that serves as a natural border between Spain and France, Finca Los Pirineos is the mountainous divide between the coffee towns of Santiago de María and Berlín, located in central El Salvador on the slopes of Tecapa Volcano. By some accounts, cultivation of coffee on the farm started in 1890, but whatever the exact date, the farm has been owned by the Baraona family for well over a century. Although specializing in heirloom variety Bourbon, an additional 94 varieties of coffee are maturing in a test nursery next to the mill. Initial results of these experimental plots are beginning to come in, with the goal of identifying the best varieties for planting elsewhere on the farm. This Ethiopia landrace variety (Konka), simply meaning it’s a previously unknown heirloom variety from Ethiopia, is one such coffee. Landrace plants are grown from seeds that have not been systematically selected or hybridized by plant breeders.