How about Salvadoran coffee beans? the flavor of Salvadoran coffee producing area

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El Salvador is one of the small countries in Central America with a very dense population. People here love coffee. The coffee in El Salvador tastes well balanced. Salvadoran coffee exports account for 40% of the country's exports. The best quality coffee is exported from January to March each year, and 35% of the extra hard beans are exported to Germany. In the early 1990s, due to the impact of war, the national economy of El Salvador was greatly damaged, even destroyed. As a result, the output of coffee decreased from 3.5 million bags in the early 1970s to 2.5 million bags in 1990-1991.

In El Salvador, the coffee beans rich in the Kuskabapa region are the best, slightly lighter, fragrant, pure and slightly sour. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude, and the higher the altitude, the better the coffee. The best brand is Pip, whose quality has been recognized by the American Organic Certification Society. Another rare coffee is Parkmara, a hybrid of Pacas coffee and Marago Rippi coffee, best produced in western El Salvador, adjacent to Santa Ana, which is close to the border with Guatemala. Parkmara coffee is full-grained, but not very fragrant.

If you want to give an appropriate description of the flavor characteristics of Salvadoran coffee, it should be nothing more than "moderate, slightly lighter viscosity, pleasing softness and sweetness, coupled with attractive fruit aromas".

El Salvador-Renas Manor (EL Salvador Natura Las Ranas)

Variety: Arabica (Arabica) mixed coffee

Origin: EL Salvador El Salvador

Location: northern Central America

Altitude: 1400-1780 m

Palate: smooth on the palate with obvious acidity

Aroma: wild olive

Introduction: high-quality extremely hard beans are planted in a special rainforest climate.

Coffee tastes better when ground this way.

1 fresh is the best

The first principle is fresh, coffee beans should not be placed for a long time after grinding, because coffee will begin to oxidize and accelerate deterioration. To get the best coffee taste, you need to use up all the coffee powder within 15 minutes of grinding.

(2) choose gear bean grinder

The machine for grinding coffee beans is mainly divided into gear grinder and blade grinder. Generally speaking, the gear grinder is better than the blade grinder. When grinding coffee beans, the blades often cut unevenly and produce very fine powder, while the gears are ground more evenly, making the taste of the coffee more balanced. If the proportion of larger or smaller particles in coffee powder is too high, coffee will be extracted inadequately or over-extracted. To grind coffee powder with a blade grinder, shake the grinder up and down while grinding. But it's best to use a gear grinder.

3. Select the parameters

The thickness of coffee powder will directly affect the contact area of coffee with water in the process of extraction. Coffee powder with smaller particles has a larger contact area with water and extraction faster, and vice versa. If the coffee powder is too fine or the extraction time is too long, you will extract more substances from the coffee, and the coffee will become bitter, astringent and taste like aspirin; if the coffee powder is too coarse or the extraction time is too short, the coffee will be acetic acid and lack depth.

4 hand or electronic?

To this end, we have tested all the grinding equipment in the store, and in the end, we think that hand and electronic bean grinders have their own advantages and disadvantages.

There are many people in our company who prefer manual bean grinder. They think that the convenience of manual grinding and the wear resistance of manual grinding itself are better, and they are very suitable for outing. Although the price of hand grinding is lower, it is not suitable for making large quantities of coffee because of the limited amount of single grinding.

The quality of the electronic bean grinder is more stable and suitable for coffee shops, and the maintenance and repair method of the Baratza bean grinder we use is simple, the parts can be removed and replaced at will, and the factory door-to-door repair price is not expensive.

5 appropriate adjustment

Our suggestion is just for you to begin to explore the basis of grinding skills, for example, we recommend that Chemex hand punch should use coarse salt-like texture of coffee powder, you should be based on this and adjust it yourself. If the coffee is too strong or bitter, you can consider thickening the coffee powder; if the taste is too light, you can consider fine the coffee powder. Through constantly trying, to find the most suitable grinding parameters.