Seasonal El Salvador Finca Santa Isabel 250g Beans

This coffee is grown in the western highlands of El Salvador, within the renowned Apaneca Ilamatepec region, one of the country's most distinguished and historic coffee producing areas. It is produced by the Holman family at Finca Santa Isabel, a farm set within a dramatic volcanic landscape at high elevations. Here, cool mountain temperatures combine with rich, mineral dense soils to create exceptional conditions for cultivating high quality Arabica coffee.

Finca Santa Isabel has been producing coffee in Apaneca Ilamatepec for more than 120 years, making it a cornerstone of the region's coffee heritage. The farm is part of a wider 279-hectare family estate, which also includes Antioquita and San Blas, all of which are overseen by Jeff Holman. Under his leadership, the Holman family has continued a multi-generational commitment to ethically produced coffee, with a strong focus on environmental stewardship, biodiversity, and long-term land preservation. These practices are not only central to the farm's identity, but have also played a significant role in consistently improving cup quality over time.

Beyond production, the Holman's place strong importance on community wellbeing and social sustainability. Workers and their families are supported through access to on-site schools, churches, and safe housing, creating a stable and self-sustaining environment where the people behind the coffee are fully integrated into its success.

The harvesting is carried out selectively by hand at peak ripeness, with pickers carefully selecting only the ripest cherries. This ensures consistency from the very beginning of processing and contributes directly to cup clarity and sweetness. Once harvested, the coffee undergoes a fully washed process, designed to highlight structure, brightness, and precision in the final profile. After washing, it is carefully dried under controlled conditions to maintain even moisture levels, preserving quality and stability throughout the lot.

This coffee presents a vibrant red berry sweetness up front, bringing a lively, juicy character to the cup. Floral notes add a delicate aromatic lift, softening the profile with a clean, perfumed elegance. A smooth milk chocolate base rounds everything out, giving the cup a comforting sweetness and creamy finish that lingers gently on the palate.

Why Our Coffee is The Best?

Sourcing the Pick of the Crop

Established relationships with producers and the coffee farming community means we can consistently source the best Arabica and Robusta beans from over 40 origins across the Coffee Growing Belt. At Kingdom Coffee we always demand the pick of the crop. We buy Grade 1 or “Strictly High Grown” – SHG coffee beans. By selecting only coffee beans from the highest elevations we can be sure that the bean has matured more slowly, grown to a larger size and with more density to create a consistently great taste profile.

There’s no denying that coffee grown at higher elevations produces the best flavour profiles, which is then sorted and graded by the farmers with greater care and attention and therefore command a higher premium price which we are very happy to pay! We believe passionately that farmers should be rewarded fairly for their hard work and the quality of their crop.

 

 

Investing in the Purest and Cleanest Roast

ROASTING BETTER: We are unique in that we roast on a clean bed of air in small batches as opposed to conventional drum roasting - only 1% of coffee is roasted this way. Air roasting elevates the natural sweetness to give a smooth and pure taste. Unlike traditional roasting, the chaff, the skin of the bean, that surrounds the raw bean is removed during the air process whilst in normal roasting this is burnt onto the bean. This makes the resultant air roasted beans more pure as the beans will taste less burnt and acidic.

CONSISTENCY: Another benefit to Air Roasting is consistency - typical roasters rely upon roasting “to colour“ which returns a high degree of variance from batch to batch. The Air Roasters rely upon exact metrics such as temperature and time with specific profiles that have been developed by our Q Grader, a certified coffee professional, to suit the particular bean. An exact science rather than guess work.

 

 

Protecting the Environment

We all have to recognise and assess our individual impact upon the environment. Our new Air Roaster uses 30% less energy than a typical roaster and reduces wasted heat by recirculating it in a fully enclosed system. We have a catalytic converter to ensure that harmful gases released are reduced by around 96%. Committing further to minimise our impact on the planet we have moved our packaging to 100% curb-side recyclable. This new packaging still protects that fresh roasted taste.

 

 

OUR BEANS are amongst the freshest on the market, being roasted to stock in the UK as opposed to importing roasted beans on a much longer timescale. Our Neotech roaster is more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and better than conventional drum roasters in that it can roast in specific small batches with unique roasting profiles that are able to compensate product variations and unfold the unique flavour of each individual coffee blend whilst reducing wasted heat by recirculating in the fully enclosed system.

Our range of Ethical coffees support our partnership with Toybox, who we aim to donate £100,000 over a period of ten years, having donated £50,000 in the last 5 years. This enabled Toybox to provide the resources needed for the street outreach team throughout 2020, conducting 240 visits to children in the most high-risk areas in Guatemala City as well as deliver 100 children across the city a warm and nutritious meal each week. Your continued support of Kingdom Coffee means that we can fund vital projects like this so thank you very much!