Costa Rican Coffee Fenghuang Manor Coffee beans processing

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Tarrazu in Costa Rica is one of the major coffee producing areas in the world. The coffee produced is light and pure in flavor and pleasant in aroma. Costa Rica, with its fertile volcanic soil and good drainage, is the first country in Central America to grow coffee and bananas for commercial value. Coffee and bananas are the country's main exports. Coffee was introduced into Costa Rica from Cuba in 1729. Today, its coffee industry is one of the well-organized industries in the world, with a yield of 1700 kg per hectare. Costa Rica, with a population of only 3.5 million, has 400 million coffee trees, and coffee exports account for 25 per cent of the country's total exports. Costa Rica has also benefited from the establishment of the Central American Institute for Agricultural Research (IAAC) in Tarasu, which is an important international research centre.

Other coffees worth mentioning are JuanVinas,PR, H.Tournon, Windmill,SHB, Montebello and SantaRosa. Fine coffee is generally grown in Heredia and the central canyon. In addition, another kind of coffee is Sarchi (Saatchi is one of the five towns that represent the Coffee Road in Gosgarica), which grows on the slopes of the PoasVolcano volcano, 53 kilometers from San Jose. Saatchi, founded in 1949, has a land area of 30770 hectares and grows sugar cane and coffee.

[Costa Rica Central Valley Cumbres del Poas]

Country: Costa Rica

Grade: SHB

Producing area: central valley

Altitude: 1300-1500m

Annual rainfall: 3000 mm

Harvest month: December to February of the following year

Treatment method: red honey treatment

Variety: Kaddura, Kaduai

Producer: fire Phoenix Manor

Raw bean specification: 18 mesh

Flavor: dried fruit, vanilla, honey, thick and delicate taste

Located in the fertile hills of the Poas volcano in the central valley of Costa Rica, Fenghuang Manor is the first producer in Central and South America to produce honey treatment and sun-tanned coffee. It is a completely 100% organically grown coffee manor. The owner believes that organic farming is a better choice for environmental maintenance and family health, even though it faces many technical and organizational challenges. Still adhere to this belief.

The manor attaches great importance to the concept of environmental treatment, such as collecting Rain Water to process coffee, and the production and use of organic compost using earthworm farming (worm composting) makes the planting process completely free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The high-quality coffee produced by this estate is very unique, the biggest feature is that it has a very amazing sweetness, 100% organic coffee! He became famous when he took part in the boutique coffee contest in 2009.

During the harvest season, the sugar content of the fruit is measured by the sugar meter (Brixmeter) often equipped by the wine industry, and the best time and treatment are determined according to the brix sugar content. Only those with more than 20% sweetness will be exposed to the sun. The Brix value of general fruit is 14 for apple, 12 for lemon and 18 for passion fruit, but the coffee cherry of Fenghuang Manor can reach 21-22.

The cultivation of coffee in Costa Rica has a long history, but in the past 10 years, the new "dry" treatment has become a trend, collectively referred to as the "honey treatment". Honey treatment is a kind of treatment between sun drying and water washing. It keeps the coffee clean by washing, and because it is dried in the sun together with the pulp mucosa, it greatly increases the sweetness and caramel flavor of the coffee (the sugar content of the pulp mucosa is extremely high). Honey treatment first appeared in Costa Rica in Central America, mainly because of the lack of water resources in some high-altitude areas of Central America, so the coffee fruit was dried in the sun together with the pulp mucosa after using the pulp sieving machine. Honey-treated coffee beans are graded according to the degree of retention of the pulp (from more to less): yellow honey (20%), red honey (50%) and black honey (100%). The drying time of raw coffee beans treated with red honey is 2-3 weeks, usually due to weather or placed in a dark place. If the weather is clear, the grower will shade part of the sun to reduce the sunlight time. The advantage of this is that it can avoid the excessive fermentation caused by direct exposure, so that the overall dried fruit flavor of coffee is obvious but not too strong, the fruit flavor is delicate and the fat is thick and lasting, and the rhyme is long!