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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Cerro Las Ranas, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cerro Las Ranas; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cerro Las Ranas; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cerro Las Ranas; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇸🇻El Salvador · Apaneca-Ilamatepec

Cerro Las Ranas

Roasted by 49th Parallel Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEl SalvadorApaneca-IlamatepecHoneyMedium-Light roastHoney flavorMilk ChocolateArabicaSingle originCerro Las RanasJose Antonio Salaverria (JASAL)49th Parallel Coffee Roasters
🇸🇻El SalvadorHoneyField BlendMedium-Light roast
Brand
—
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Region
Apaneca-Ilamatepec
Town
Apaneca
Farm / Station
Cerro Las Ranas
Farmer / Producer
Jose Antonio Salaverria (JASAL)
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Medium-Light
Tasting notes
Honey, Mandarin, Milk Chocolate
Fermentation
—
Drying
Patios and raised tables, with regular turning
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mThe roaster publishes a 1,450–1,780 m range; no single representative elevation was invented.
  • harvestThe current product page does not state a harvest year.
  • fermentationNo separate fermentation protocol is disclosed beyond the honey process.
  • roast dateThe current product page does not state a roast date.
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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
    Cerro Las Ranas
  2. 02
    The brand
    Not disclosed
  3. 03
    The roaster
    49th Parallel Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Cerro Las Ranas
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Jose Antonio Salaverria (JASAL)
  7. 07
    The region
    Apaneca-Ilamatepec
  8. 08
    The country
    🇸🇻El Salvador
From the producer

JASAL is a family-owned operation led by Jose Antonio Salaverria and his sons, known for their rigorous attention to detail in farm management and laboratory quality control.

From the roaster

Cerro Las Ranas, meaning Hill of Frogs, takes its name from a lagoon on the farm that is home to thousands of frogs. The coffee is grown by Jose Antonio Salaverria and his family through JASAL, a family-owned coffee operation known for careful attention to quality. Roasted for espresso.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The coffee is named after a lagoon on the farm that is home to thousands of frogs, which also serves as the inspiration for the JASAL group logo. It is produced by the Salaverria family using a honey process that involves drying mucilage-covered beans on clay patios to develop sweetness.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Pulped with mucilage intact

Ripe cherries were pulped while retaining the sweet mucilage around the seed.

02
Dried in two formats

The coffee was dried on patios and raised tables, with regular turning for even drying.

What was added?

No added ingredient is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The roaster does not describe fruit, spice or flavor additions.

Why it matters

The honey method retains mucilage during drying and is presented by the roaster as contributing sweetness and rounded character.

What you might taste

49th Parallel lists honey, mandarin and milk chocolate.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://49thcoffee.com/products/el-salvador-cerro-las-ranas-espresso
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 2026-10-14) 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

No qualifying independent exact-release cup rating was found. Catalog quality indexes and directory rankings were excluded because they are not verified exact-coffee tasting scores.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Cerro Las Ranas →Meet the farmer: Jose Antonio Salaverria (JASAL) →
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