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Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇸🇻El Salvador · Santa Ana

Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEl SalvadorSanta AnaPacamaraHoneyLight roastArabicaSingle originSpecialtyFinca Santa ElenaFernando LimaCounter Culture CoffeeIndependent
🇸🇻El SalvadorHoneyPacamaraLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Region
Santa Ana
Town
Santa Ana
Farm / Station
Finca Santa Elena
Farmer / Producer
Fernando Lima
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
green apple, tangerine, creamy
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • FermentationCounter Culture explains mucilage-retained honey processing but does not publish fermentation conditions or duration.
  • DryingThe release says the mucilage-coated seeds were dried, but the surface and duration are not published.
  • PriceThe archived subscriber-exclusive product page does not display a verifiable consumer price.
  • Package sizeThe exact archived subscriber-exclusive product page does not display a verifiable package size.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Honey
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pacamara
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Santa Elena
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Fernando Lima
  7. 07
    The region
    Santa Ana
  8. 08
    The country
    🇸🇻El Salvador
From the producer

Fernando Lima owns Finca Santa Elena on the slopes of the Santa Ana volcano. The exact 2026 product narrative identifies him as the producer of this honey-processed Pacamara selection.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a B Corp certified roaster that emphasizes transparency, sustainability, and quality-focused sourcing practices.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This is a single-variety Pacamara lot from Fernando Lima, processed with the honey method to retain the variety's fruit character while adding sweetness and body. The current page's title and narrative say honey even though its harvest sidebar mistakenly says washed.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Honey processing

The coffee cherry skin was removed and some mucilage remained during drying, placing the method between washed and natural processing.

02
Light roasting

Counter Culture used a light roast to preserve the Pacamara lot's tangerine and green-apple character.

What was added?

Verified producer, farm, country, Santa Ana region, Pacamara variety, honey process, elevation range, 2026 harvest, roast level, availability, and exact tasting notes.

What wasn't added?

No altitude midpoint was stored because the source gives a range. No independent sentiment score was added because the exact independent catalog listing has no ratings.

Why it matters

The page now resolves the source-page process contradiction transparently and connects the coffee to the site's verified origin, farm, producer, variety, and process records.

What you might taste

Green apple and tangerine brightness with a rounded creamy sweetness.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/finca-santa-elena-pacamara-honey-copy
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/finca-santa-elena-pacamara-honey
  • · https://www.thebeangeek.com/coffee/finca-santa-elena-pacamara-honey-1
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-11) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

TheBeanGeek and Beans with Beanie match the exact release but explicitly show no ratings or written reviews. Seller and catalog pages were excluded, so no public score was calculated.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Santa Elena →Meet the farmer: Fernando Lima →
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