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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇸🇻El Salvador · Santa Ana

El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEl SalvadorSanta AnaPacamaraWashedArabicaSingle originThe Alvarez FamilyIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇸🇻El SalvadorWashedPacamara
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Region
Santa Ana
Town
Santa Ana
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
The Alvarez Family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
pomegranate, fig, toffee
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm idEl Borbollón is a mill and associated growing operation; the exact Intelligentsia release does not identify the contributing Alvarez-family farm.
  • harvestNo release-specific harvest window or crop year is published.
  • fermentationThe exact release is washed, but fermentation method and duration are not published.
  • drying methodNo release-specific drying method is published.
  • gradeNo formal green-coffee grade is published for this release.
  • roast levelNo conventional roast level is published on the exact Intelligentsia product page; third-party category labels were not mapped.
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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
    El Salvador El Borbollon Pacamara
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pacamara
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    The Alvarez Family
  7. 07
    The region
    Santa Ana
  8. 08
    The country
    🇸🇻El Salvador
From the producer

The Alvarez family operates El Borbollón as a growing, milling and exporting company established in 1985. The exact release does not identify which Alvarez-family or partner farm supplied this lot.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia identifies this archived release as a washed Pacamara from El Borbollón, grown near the slopes of the Santa Ana Volcano.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The release combines El Salvador’s Pacamara variety with the Alvarez family’s long-running El Borbollón operation, while requiring careful separation of the named mill/operation from an unverified contributing farm.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified exact release commerce

Confirmed the archived $29 price, seven-ounce package and sold-out status.

02
Connected the existing region

Linked the coffee to the existing Santa Ana region record because Intelligentsia places it near the slopes of the Santa Ana Volcano; no related entity was created.

03
Bounded catalog metadata

Retained TheBeanGeek’s exact-release 1,400 m, Pacamara, washed process and pomegranate/fig/toffee fields, while treating its 'farm' label as shorthand for El Borbollón rather than proof of one source farm.

04
Separated other lots

Excluded a current Ozone natural-process El Borbollón Pacamara and an Intelligentsia xBloom café serving because neither is this archived washed retail release.

05
Screened public sentiment

Found exact catalogs but no qualifying independent tasting review or numeric exact-product rating.

What was added?

Structured $29 USD commerce data, refreshed sold-out status, the existing Santa Ana relationship and clearer mill-versus-farm provenance.

What wasn't added?

No contributing farm, harvest, fermentation duration, drying method, formal grade, conventional roast mapping, owner score or public sentiment score.

Why it matters

El Borbollón grows, mills and exports coffee from family and partner farms. Treating the operation name as an exact farm would create unsupported provenance.

What you might taste

TheBeanGeek’s exact product catalog lists pomegranate, fig and toffee; these are catalog descriptors, not this publication’s tasting observations.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/el-salvador-el-borbollon-pacamara
  • · https://www.thebeangeek.com/roastery/intelligentsiacoffee
  • · https://www.thewaytocoffee.com/roasters/intelligentsia/
  • · https://www.elborbollon.com/aboutus
  • · https://varieties.worldcoffeeresearch.org/varieties/pacamara
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-el-salvador-el-borbollon-pacamara
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 2026-11-01) 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, The Way to Coffee and Cherrybook provide exact-product catalog metadata, not independent tasting ratings. Cherrybook's index is based on roaster-level YouTube and Reddit signals rather than this coffee. Ozone's scored natural-process El Borbollón Pacamara is a different roaster and release. No numeric public sentiment rating was created.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: The Alvarez Family →
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