Kilimanjaro coffee culture, how to choose Kilimanjaro coffee beans

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Kilimanjaro coffee is produced in Mount Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa in northeastern Tanzania.

Its coffee is of good quality, rich aroma and outstanding sour taste, so it is suitable for the preparation of comprehensive coffee. Kilimanjaro coffee is an important lifeline of the Tanzanian economy. About 17% of the foreign exchange is generated by coffee. It is mainly produced around MountKilimanjaro near Arusha in the northeast, that is, Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa with perennial snow. Kilimanjaro coffee, one of the top representatives of Tanzania's AA coffee beans, is bred by volcanic ash and made by nature. The coffee has a unique cocoa fruit aroma and a strong glycolic degree.

The coffee beans are of extraordinary quality and are produced in the Mohi district near Mount Kilimanjaro. The mountain area with a height of 3,000 to 6,000 feet is the most suitable area for growing coffee. Fertile volcanic ash gives the coffee here a strong texture and soft acidity. It exudes delicate aromas and contains aromas of wine and fruit, making people taste endless aftertaste. After drinking Kilimanjaro coffee, I always feel a soft and mellow earthy smell around my mouth. Coffee gourmets often use words such as "wild" or "wild" to describe it. It can be said that pure Kilimanjaro coffee is "the most African coffee". Kilimanjaro AA is the highest grade of beans, its grains are full, pure flavor, rich and refreshing, all aspects of quality are good. It is usually more acidic than Kenya coffee and evenly stimulates the taste buds in the middle and sides of the back of the tongue, feeling a bit like the sour taste of tomato or soda. After moderate or more moderate baking, it has a strong aroma, then grind it into a fine powder, soak it in a pot of boiling water, and invite friends to sit around and taste it. The famous coffee brands in Tanzania are Africafe, Tanica Cafe, Kilimanjaro and so on, and their quality is much better than the Nestle coffee we often drink. Tanzanian coffee has long been loved by Europeans and has joined the ranks of famous products. Europeans give Tanzanian coffee the nickname "coffee gentleman", and coffee connoisseurs call it the "coffee swordsman" with the mocha of the "King of Coffee" and the "Lady of Coffee".

Kilimanjaro coffee is a uniform size of large coffee beans, the color is gray-green, compared with a strong sour and sweet flavor, excellent flavor. Medium baking will give off sweetness and light sour taste, deep baking will produce soft bitterness, suitable for blending.

Kilimanjaro coffee is mainly suitable for blending, can be self-blending or made into a variety of fancy coffee.

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How to choose coffee beans?

First of all, we should put the coffee beans close to the nose, and then take a deep breath to see if you can clearly smell the aroma of the coffee beans. If so, it means the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the aroma is weak, or has begun to appear greasy, it means that the coffee beans are not fresh at all.

We can check the shape of the coffee beans, fresh and good coffee beans round shape, big fat beans, with luster, on the contrary, broken, different shapes.

Take a coffee bean and try to peel it off by hand. if the coffee bean is fresh enough, it should be easy to pluck away, and it will have a crisp sound and feeling. If the coffee beans are not fresh, you will find that you have to work hard to get rid of a bean.

Before buying, put a bean in your mouth or hand and gently press it. The fresh bean has a crisp texture and a light, fragrant sound when it opens.

It is best to squeeze it with your hands and feel whether it is solid, rather than buying coffee with a crispy shell.

When shopping, it is best to take one or two coffee beans in the mouth to chew, to clear sound (indicating that the coffee has not been damp), teeth and cheeks to stay fragrant is the top grade.

How to choose coffee beans

The expert candidate for coffee is not to look at the size of the particles, but to grab a handful of individual coffee beans, about dozens of them, to see if each coffee bean has the same color, grain size and shape, so as to avoid buying inferior products disguised as mixed beans. But if it is a comprehensive bean, size, color is different is a normal phenomenon.

Choose coffee beans, depending on how you buy coffee beans to drink, here is recommended to use some simple utensils at home to brew the selected coffee beans: because the coffee is special and needs to be fresh, it is recommended that you do not choose a brand. Choose your own baked coffee shop in your city to buy freshly roasted coffee beans. The advantage is that you buy about 227 grams and a half pound. You can be sure to finish it in about 20-30 days, which is the shelf life of the roasted coffee beans.