Elida Estate reached won BOTH Geisha categories breaking records in both categories, for the second year on the row Elida Estate wins first place in Geisha Washed category and Geisha Natural category. in 2018 Elida Estate broke the record for Geisha Washed with 94.66 and Geisha Natural did not reached a record score, but in 2019 Elida Geisha Washed reached 95.00 and Elida Geisha Natural broke the record with a 95.25 points. Winning first place in both Geisha categories in the same competition is something unimaginable, now doing it on back to back occasions feels like a dream. Lets remember that both Elida Geisha champions got record prices in the auction celebrated in July 19th, 2019. Elida Geisha Washed reached...
After winning Panama Brewers 2018 celebrated in October by Specialty Coffee Events in Panama city, Wilford Lamastus Jr became the representative of Panama in the World Brewers cup. Wilford Jr in his first world competition reached the 10th overall place in the competition, missing finals by just a few spots. And, since this is the website for the coffee we will focus on Open service where he placed 5th overall using Elida Geisha Natural ASD. ASD stands for Anaerobic Slow Dry and the coffee was put in fermentation tanks for 120 hours with the pulp, and then placed on the drying beds with thick layer for a total time of five weeks. The Geisha coffee used for brewers cup grew...
Elida Estate broke all the possible barriers in 2018, highest price paid in a coffee auction at $803 and $661 per pound of Elida Geisha Natural and Elida Geisha Washed respectively. After winning BOTH 1st places in Geisha Washed and Geisha Natural category with a record in points with a score of 94.66 in Elida Geisha Washed, the expectations for the Best of Panama Auction were high. But how high? lets remember 2017 when Hacienda La Esmeralda broke an unimaginable record with the Geisha Natural from Cañas Verdes and the bid was won by Kew Specialty. The 601 made news all over the world opening the doors to a new era of coffee sales in to the luxury status. Hacienda La...
Photo Credit @Jnyuwang Best of Panama 2018 competition concluded May 26th and the results for Elida Estate were tremendous. Elida Estate in the same year it turned 100 years, won NOT one, but TWO 1st places in both Geisha categories. For the first time since Geisha was discovered, a produce won 1st place in BOTH Geisha categories, plus a record with a 94.66 in Elida Geisha Washed, AND, the Panama Cup for the producer of the year. Important to mention this is not the first time Wilford Lamastus wins the Panama Cup, nor the 1st place with a record in the Geisha Washed category. The current record was held by Elida Geisha Washed 1st place in 2016 with a...
Elida Estate is the main farm for the Lamastus Family Estates group and was founded in 1918 by Robert Louis Lamastus, a military man from Kentucky, US that eradicated in Boquete after his service in the Panama Canal Zone and Coiba. He married a local by the name of Elida Saldaña and they had five kids. After his death, in 1934, Robert left the coffee farm to his wife Elida and the five kids, and Elida was able to keep up the coffee farm successfully while sending her five kids to school and college in the US. After coming back from college Thatcher, the fourth of of the five siblings, came to work in coffee farm and dedicated his life...
