Guatemalan coffee beans, Guatemalan coffee culture

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Guatemalan coffee has a strong aroma, even if you don't drink it, just smelling it is already a pleasure. Antigua coffee has a rich and velvety mellow, rich and lively aroma, and fine sour taste. When the attractive fragrance lingers on the tip of your tongue, there is an indescribable mystery. You may feel dull at the first sip, but as the coffee cools down, you will find it slightly sweet and be surprised by its depth.

Antigua coffee is popular with most coffee lovers only because of its distinctive aroma. Because it is planted in the hills of volcanoes, it can retain its own characteristics more than Costa Rica, the main reason is that it has more geographical and climatic advantages than Costa Rica. Guatemala is located in the tropics, but due to the relatively high altitude, the climate is mild, it is a subtropical climate. Under the influence of this climate, coffee trees blossom and bear fruit more slowly than coffee trees in other parts of the world. However, the mild climate and fertile soil make it an excellent environment for growing coffee.

The coffee industry, run by the Mayans, once boomed the Guatemalan economy and dominated the national economy. Unfortunately, the political situation in Guatemala is not good for these coffee growers. High output is usually a sign of a country's overall economic prosperity. However, coffee production in Guatemala has declined relatively, at 700kg per hectare, compared with 900kg per hectare in El Salvador and 1700 kg per hectare in Costa Rica. Guatemalan coffee exports are controlled by private companies, but the National Coffee Commission controls other sectors of the coffee industry.

At present, some of the best quality coffee from Guatemala is exported to Japan, where each cup of coffee sells for $3 to $4. In order to revitalize its coffee industry, Guatemala has specially set up a special coffee association and gives maximum funding and attention to these high-quality coffees. these efforts will soon bear fruit, and the real beneficiaries are not only coffee growers, but also coffee lovers all over the world.

The coffee produced in Guatemala is one of the top coffee in the world, because Guatemala is a high-altitude volcanic terrain, and these volcanoes are the ideal places to grow coffee. Compared with other varieties of coffee, critics prefer this mixed flavor coffee with spicy flavor. The extra hard coffee beans here are a rare good coffee with full grains, delicious taste and balanced acidity. In addition, its giant coffee beans have attracted a lot of attention in Guatemala.

Classified according to the traditional production methods and components of coffee, there are the following

Coffee with milk:

If you can't stand bitter plain coffee, but don't like it particularly sweet, but prefer something a little mellow, you can order a latte, which is made of espresso with milk and foam. In fact, it is cold fresh milk directly in foreign coffee houses.

On the other hand, cappuccino, Nosokang blue and concentrated macchiato are respectively based on espresso with cream and cream, which are characterized by many bubbles in addition to mellow, and can pull flowers in shape, at the same time, whether it is the aroma of coffee, or the freshness of milk is stronger than latte.

A little chocolate:

If you like chocolate, you can order mocha, which is based on espresso, with chocolate sauce, milk and cream.

Plain coffee:

For those who really need a pick-me-up with coffee, or those who especially like the bitter taste of coffee, you can order Espresso, that is, espresso. Nothing.

But because many people can't stand the bitterness of drinking espresso and don't like to eat so much high-sugar and high-oil, there are ABC, American coffee, that is, espresso with hot water. It is an elaborate coffee bean extract that only falls in love once in a lifetime, espresso and warm hot water.

Coffee varieties:

Arabica species (Arabica):

It accounts for 85% of total coffee production, including Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Ethiopia and so on. The beans are turquoise, thin and small, with special aroma and sweet acid, which is good to drink with other coffee. Excellent quality, more suitable for public taste.

Robada species (Robusta):

Roughly planted in Java, Indonesia, drought-resistant and insect-resistant; bitter taste, but bitter with fragrance, especially after cooling with a unique sweet taste, suitable for the preparation of cold coffee, mellow and extremely bitter.

Liberia plus species (Leberica):

The quantity of this variety is very small, most of it is used to synthesize coffee and make coffee essence, it is difficult to see on the market, the quality is not good, the flavor of the single product is not good.