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El Salvador · Apaneca-Ilamatepec
Las Brumas, WFC, Anaerobic Natural SL28, El Salvador
Ernesto Menéndez
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Las Brumas
SL28· Anaerobic
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Las Brumas
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The story
The Menéndez family’s coffee history dates to 1930. Ernesto is the third generation and inherited his first coffee farm at age 19. Primary sources document multiple Cup of Excellence results for Las Brumas, including first place in El Salvador’s 2024 Experimental category.
Challenges
Alliance for Coffee Excellence documents severe coffee-leaf-rust losses in 2014 and a pandemic-era slowdown before the farm’s 2024 Cup of Excellence return.
Innovations
The farm integrates coffee trees into forest conditions and prepares small competition-standard lots. Exact releases document natural, washed, and anaerobic processing, but unpublished durations or vessel details are not inferred.
Published coffees linked to this farm
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Research last reviewed: 2026-10-29