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Name: Michael F. Baccellieri
Location: Beaverton, Oregon, US

Greetings and thanks for dropping by my blog! My name is Michael F. Baccellieri, and I am the owner of Longbottom Coffee & Tea, which has pioneered hot air roasting mild Arabica specialty coffees for over 25 years. I am also a master carpenter, ships carpenter and a licensed Master Mariner. I have a beautiful wife and two wonderful children . . . I am the son of and Italian immigrant that boarded the passanger ship "Rex" in 1934. My father then signed in at Ellis Island, NY, boarded a train and settled in Portland, Oregon. I was born in 1953 at S.E. 18th & Tibbets, which was once part of Portland's little Italy.


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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Cerro de las Ranas Estate coffee

Cerro de las Ranas means mountain of frogs. There must be lots of frogs on this El Salvadorian Estate.
For many decades, coffee has been one of the largest industries in El Salvador, and they have the secret to making pulped naturals. The Cerro de las Ranas Estate is known to have the best Central American pulped natural coffee around. The beans are uniform, fuller with bright acidity, a bit fruity with carmel overtones. No key lime or blackberry cobbler here!!!!
So what is PULPED NATURAL? To create a pulped natural, you do something in between the washed and natural processes. First, the coffee cherry skin is removed in the washed process, but then what remains, sticky fruit goes directly to the drying patio and is dried with a great deal of attention. Constant raking and turning of the sticky wet parchment is critical.
Although all this attention is given to the coffee drying process, the truth is... we are looking for the best cupping coffee. This being said, we can highly recommend this Estate. We have just a few bags left of this complex interesting coffee.

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