Los Pirineos Geisha

Los Pirineos Geisha

An slight different expression of Geisha coffee with notes of milk chocolate, tangerine and florals.

 

250g whole coffee beans

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About this coffee

Cultivar: Geisha

Flavour notes: Milk chocolate, floral & tangerine

Producer: Diego Baraona
Country: El Salvador
Region: Tecapa-Chinameca, Usulutan
Process: Washed
Harvest date: February 2025

More about the cultivar

The Geisha cultivar is famous for its floral and citric cup profile. Unlike the Panamanian geishas which typically have a lighter body and a high intensity of floral and citric flavours, the Geisha from Los Pirineos is more chocolaty with intense flavours of tangerine.

How the coffee was produced

Picking and sorting

  • All cherries are selectively picked by hand. Unripe and damaged cherries are removed by hand from the ripe cherries before processing.


Depupling, fermenting & washing

  • Coffee cherries are de-pulped before they are dry-fermented over night. The next morning, the mucilage is washed off the parchment coffee before the coffee is taken to the drying beds.


Drying

  • The coffees we buy from Los Pirineos are all dried slowly on raised beds and most beds are covered with shade nets. During drying the coffees are raked throughout the day to ensure even drying. At night it gets covered to prevent condensation and the risk of the coffee gaining moisture in the drying process. Once the coffees are dried, they are stored in air tight grain pro bags before the they get milled and sorted on the farm. The coffees are also packed in vacuum packs on the farm before they are shipped to Norway.

Shipping

For our Norwegian customers, we offer two shipping options:

  1. Pakke i Postkassen - With Pakke i Postkassen, tracking is provided, and delivery is estimated within 2-3 business days.
  2. Pakke til hentested - The parcel can be collected from a Post in Store, Post Office, parcel locker, or parcel box. This option includes tracking, with delivery expected within 1-5 business days.

For all international orders, we ship via DHL - Worldwide Express. This shipping method includes tracking, and all customs duties and taxes are covered in the shipping price, ensuring there are no unexpected charges for your order or its importation into the final destination. The estimated delivery time with DHL is 1-5 business days. For more information about shipping, please visit our FAQ page here. If you have further questions, please contact us here.

How to brew

Filter

We strongly recommend using the correct measurements and brewing techniques when you brew our coffees. Use a digital scale both to measure water and coffee in order to get consistent results, and we recommend using between 60 to 70 grams of coffee per litre (1000g) of water, depending on the brewing method, water quality and coffee used.

Tim's notes

Diego’s father Gilberto started planting Geisha from a handful of seeds many years ago. In fact he started with just a few trees in his garden outside his house in San Salvador before transferring the trees and planting more on his farm. This was because back then it was really hard to come across good Geisha seeds and Gilberto wanted to personally guard his trees to make sure they grew up well.

Since then we have been waiting patiently for the trees to produce enough of the good quality to be able to offer this coffee in our selections. I have already have tasted this coffee for a few years now and every year it has had a very distinct and unique orange and tangerine flavour that reminds me of eating orange flavoured milk chocolate.

Last year this coffee was more subtle with low flavour intensity, but this year Diego has made sure to process the coffee really well and has managed to produce a much more flavour intense Geisha coffee. It is quite different from the famous Geishas you can get from Panama that tends to be more delicate with a lighter body and a more floral cup profile.

This is a completely different style of Geisha with a heavier body, dense mouthfeel and loads of tangerine flavour with some orange blossom aromas.

El Salvador

Los Pirineos

Los Pirineos is located on top of the Tecapa volcano in Chinameca, Usulutan in El Salvador. It is over 150 hectares in size and the altitude ranges from around 1100 – 1400 meters above sea level. Over the years, Gilberto and now Diego Baraona have planted over 80 different cultivars of coffee on the farm that grows under partial shade from native shade trees.

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