The difference between Rosa Coffee Bean and Geisha Coffee Bean characteristics and Baking suggestions of Rosa Coffee Bean

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Geisha coffee beans, some people call it Rose Summer Coffee or Yiqiu beans, are actually the same kind of coffee beans. Its name comes from Geisha Mountain in Ethiopia, which sounds like the famous Japanese geisha, hence its name.

Geisha coffee beans have an extraordinary legend. It turns out that this kind of coffee bean originated from southwestern Ethiopia in Africa. In 1963, Don Pachi Serracin introduced geisha coffee trees from Costa Rica to Panama. Because the yield is not high, it directly affects the harvest, and coffee farmers are not willing to grow it. It wasn't until Daniel Peterson, the owner of the Panama La Esmeralda in Panama, accidentally discovered that at the top of his coffee farm, the coffee beans produced by these geisha coffee trees, which used to be used as a windbreak, had the citrus and floral aroma peculiar to African beans. Independent of its coffee beans, participate in the 2004 Panamanian coffee bean cup test competition and become a hit. Since then, kabou has been unstoppable and has won the Panamanian coffee cup test competition for many years. In the eyes of boutique coffee lovers all over the world, geisha coffee beans are undoubtedly the supreme treasure.

The geisha of La Esmeralda became world-famous coffee by accident. Retired Swedish banker Rudolph A. Peterson bought the Jade Manor in Panama to spend his twilight years. Unexpectedly, the coffee trees in the manor bore fruit and sent them to participate in the coffee competition. As a result, they became famous in World War I. Won the national championship of the Panamanian boutique coffee competition in 2004.

Rosa coffee raw beans have a very beautiful blue-green, jade-like warm texture, smell fresh grass, peach, berry flavor and oolong tea unique milk sweetness that most coffee beans do not have. it seems that aroma and taste of this kind of things need to be associated, but a hint of tea smell is obvious to us.

Suggestion on coffee baking in Qianjie

How do you bake when you get a rose summer?

If you fully show the personality of Rose Xia, you must make some efforts on baking. Rose summer is generally planted at a high altitude of more than 1500 meters. What we get is 1700 meters of high-hardness and high-density beans, which are full in shape, medium grain size, thick and long, and pointed at both ends.

In order to highlight the characteristics and aroma of this bean, use shallow baking, so that the baking degree can show the characteristics of the bean itself, and if it is too deep, it will lose the aroma of flowers and fruit acid. of course, this should be adjusted according to the characteristics of coffee beans and the roaster's understanding of the beans themselves.

Personal experience, in the baking process to pay attention to, rose baking curve should not be too long, otherwise the flavor will be rigid. After an explosion, the temperature rise should not be too high, the two ends of Rose summer are sharp, it is easy to have black focus, the temperature rise below 6 degrees will be better, shallow baking will reveal the aroma of tea rose.

Roaster Yangjia 600g semi-direct fire

When the furnace temperature reaches 170 degrees Celsius, the firepower is adjusted to 140 degrees after the throttle is opened for 3, 30 seconds, the throttle remains unchanged, the temperature of the furnace is adjusted at 140 degrees Celsius, the fire power is adjusted to yellow, the smell of grass disappears completely, the dehydration is completed, the firepower is adjusted to 100 degrees, and the throttle is adjusted to 4.

No. 7 & # 39 × 40 ", ugly wrinkles and black markings appear on the bean surface, and the smell of baked bread obviously turns into coffee, which can be defined as a prelude to an explosion. At this time, listen clearly to the sound of a burst point, start to explode to 8 degrees 39 × 12", adjust the firepower to 80 degrees, adjust the throttle to 4 (the firepower should be very careful, not so small as to be free of bursting sound), and develop 1 percent 39 percent 30 "after an explosion. 189 degrees into the pot.

As a result of the cup test, the entrance acidity is delicate and soft, and sweetness soon appears on the tongue and lasts for a long time. The taste is clean and bright, like black tea. There are roses, honeysuckle, sweet potato, grapefruit, lemon, black tea, sugar aromas, clear layers, long finish.