El Salvador San Mauricio Pipil Review

I bought these El Salvador San Mauricio Pipil organic green coffee beans from the Seven Bridges Cooperative at Amazon.com as part of the Seven Bridges Cooperative 5 Lb. Organic Fair Trade Green Coffee Sampler. The label on the package recommends the beans for medium to French roasts.

The beans are fairly large and also because of the roasting recommendations made on the label I used a slightly longer roasting profile, saved profile #4 in my iRoast-2:

• 385F at 6 minutes
• 430F for 3.5 minutes
• 465F for 2 minutes

The roasted beans generate an average to good amount of crema, but the crema breaks up farily quickly. The taste of the espresso is distinctively bitter.

When used as the basis for an espresso-based coffee drink with milk, the taste is quite pleasant, with strong flavors of chocolate and caramel.

I recommend these beans for milk-based espresso drinks. They would also blend well with beans that produce better crema output, such as the Nicaragua 5 Junio, or the Colombian Popayan.

If your palate is adapted to bitter espresso shots, then this is a good one for you but allow for the fact that the crema will not persist on the shot for long.

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