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🇸🇻El Salvador · Santa Ana

Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Variety

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEl Salvador Santa Ana Pacamara Washed Light roast Milk Chocolate Honey flavor Arabica Single origin Finca Santa Elena Fernando Lima Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇸🇻El SalvadorWashedPacamaraLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

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Country

🇸🇻El Salvador

Region

Santa Ana

Town

Santa Ana

Farm / Station

Finca Santa Elena

Farmer / Producer

Fernando Lima

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Pacamara

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

green apple, milk chocolate, honey

Fermentation

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Drying

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Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

fermentationThe exact release is washed, but Counter Culture does not publish release-specific fermentation parameters.
drying methodThe exact 2025 Pacamara Variety page does not publish lot-specific drying details; farm-wide raised-bed practices are not substituted.
altitude mThe source gives a 1,550–1,850 m range; no single point elevation is inferred.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available for this release.
independent public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting rating or written review was found.

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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.

01
The name on the bag
Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Variety
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Pacamara
Documented
05
The farm
Finca Santa Elena
Documented
06
The farmer
Fernando Lima
Documented
07
The region
Santa Ana
Documented
08
The country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Documented

From the producer

Fernando Lima rebuilt Finca Santa Elena after the 2005 Santa Ana eruption, emphasizing Bourbon and Pacamara, shade diversity, efficient wet milling and slower raised-bed drying. Cooperativa Cuzcachapa is the documented sourcing partner for this release.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster that sources single-origin and specialty coffees with a focus on transparency and sustainability.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Pacamara was developed in El Salvador from Pacas and Maragogipe. At Finca Santa Elena, the variety is presented as a classic washed expression with crisp fruit, chocolate and honey sweetness.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Pacamara selection

The release isolates Pacamara grown on Finca Santa Elena’s Santa Ana volcano slopes.

Washed processing

Counter Culture identifies the lot as washed but does not publish release-specific fermentation or drying parameters.

What was added?

No flavoring agents or processing additions are documented.

What wasn't added?

Farm-level wet-mill and raised-bed practices were not presented as lot-specific parameters where the release page does not say so.

Why it matters

The profile distinguishes this washed Pacamara from Finca Santa Elena’s separate Pacamara Honey release.

What you might taste

Green apple brightness with milk chocolate and honey sweetness.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/finca-santa-elena-pacamara-variety

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 2026-11-08) 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

Method: required an independent source naming Counter Culture's exact Finca Santa Elena Pacamara Variety 2025 release. The Cherrybook evidence index is not a cup score or user rating; catalog and seller pages provide metadata only. The 2013 Pacamara review, 2026 Pacamara Honey release, generic Finca Santa Elena reviews, and roaster copy were excluded as different releases.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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

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Finca Santa Elena – Pacamara Variety

FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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