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On our latest origin trip to El Salvador, we had the opportunity to visit with Maria Pacas. Maria and her family have been producing coffee for 6 generations and currently operate multiple farms. They have complete control over the quality of their coffee as they also operate their own wet and dry mill. Our relationship with the Pacas family started in 2013 when we bought our first lot of coffee from their farm Los Bellotos. Their operations were truly impressive and the farms, covered by shade trees, exhibited a beautiful array of biodiversity.

Coffee is a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, it’s like a miracle food that can last a really long time on your shelf. Brew up a bag you bought two years ago and chances are you won’t find yourself heaving on the ground. On the other hand, it’s just like any other fruit, and its best tastes are only available within a relatively small window of time.

If you don’t know how to choose the best coffee beans, then you’re missing out of the uninhibited flavors, natural sweetness and lower acidity of cold brew coffee. Cold brew is famous for extracting the best flavor from your coffee beans. It is the quality of your coffee beans that have the most significant effect on the taste of your cold brew coffee.