El Salvador Las Mercedes Orange Bourbon Anaerobic Natural

From the award-winning Las Mercedes farm of Cerro El Tigre, we’re thrilled to bring you something truly spectacular—our beloved Orange Bourbon is back, but this time it’s turned up to eleven as an Anaerobic Natural, unlocking a whole new level of flavor intensity!

This is not just coffee—it’s a masterpiece for true connoisseurs, a refined, sophisticated brew that pushes boundaries and reveals flavor notes never before tasted in our Orange Bourbon. As a bold experiment, Las Mercedes put their exceptional beans through an Anaerobic Process, and Klatch is beyond excited to say: the results are nothing short of phenomenal!

Get ready for a flavor explosion—think luscious cherry, ripe blackberry, and a burst of juicy blood orange dancing in every sip. This isn’t just coffee; it’s an experience you won’t forget.

From the award-winning, family-owned, and women-led Finca Las Mercedes, nestled in Cerro El Tigre, El Salvador—crafting exceptional coffee since 1886.

Tecapa 2019- 1 st place - Pacamara Washed
Coffee Review - Nov. 2008 - 92 points
Cup of Excellence 2006 - 1st Place
Cup of Excellence 2009 - 6th Place
Best of Origin 2016 - Top 10

As part of Klatch Coffee’s direct trade partnership, 25 cents of every pound of this coffee sold goes to support community sports programs and medical clinics in the Las Mercedes community. Finca Las Mercedes is a beautiful coffee farm with owners dedicated to care for their community, their workers, and the environment with the same care that they invest into their coffee. The Ortiz family provides healthcare, food, and clothing to those in the community that are in need. Las Mercedes is committed to ecological care, making efforts to preserve natural wildlife, to maintain compliance with our certifications in the way that the mill’s by-products are disposed of, and to avoid contamination. In the last few years, the Ortiz family has prioritized preservation by planting native trees.

The most admired of the traditional varieties grown in Latin America is bourbon, our 'Orange Bourbon' is unique because of the orange coffee cherries, as opposed to red. We at Klatch Coffee were drawn to Las Mercedes because of its great coffee, but we found what we fell in love with was the people, the process, and our shared passion for persistently striving to make coffee the best it can be. The Las Mercedes process begins with hand picking only ripe, mature cherries, and then carefully screening them before depulping to eliminate twigs, leaves, and other foreign material.

The Las Mercedes process begins with hand picking only ripe, mature cherries, and then carefully screening them before depulping to eliminate twigs, leaves, and other foreign material. After selecting picking we screen the coffee cherries we pour all the coffee cherries into our anaerobic barrels and we close the barrels. Water is not added, the anaerobic fermentation process takes 90 to 92 hrs. The coffee cherries are removed and replaced on raised beds to dry slowly for 35 to 40 days with an 11% of humidity. The coffee cherries are placed into yute bags and stored to rest. At the wet mill, the cherries are received into ceramic tiled ditches, washed with fresh collected rainwater, and immediately fed into a pulper. These pulpers are designed to separate the bean from the flesh of the fruit while leaving each bean intact in its parchment envelope. They then dry the coffee on clay patios to ensure even drying for 25 days. The most admired of the traditional varieties grown in Latin America is bourbon, our 'Orange Bourbon' is unique with the orange cherry. We at Klatch Coffee were drawn to Las Mercedes because of its great coffee, but we found what we fell in love with was the people, the process, and our shared passion for persistently striving to make coffee the best it can be.