Hand washing Costa Rica Beethoven Coffee musicians Series how to make Costa Rican Coffee

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Costa Rican coffee in the Americas is very unique, all because they use honey treatment, sweet and sour balanced, smooth and sweet, obviously different from washing and sun-treated coffee! There is such a manor in Costa Rica, he does not mainly grow coffee, but is famous for coffee in the world, to follow the front street to learn more about the story behind.

Carnett musicians series

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It is located in the highest altitude area where Tarrazu coffee is grown in Costa Rica. This area is the most densely planted area of Costa Rican fruit, the main manor is to grow passion fruit, the amount of coffee is quite rare, there is only one specific area to grow coffee, take special care, only pick ripe red cherry fruit. The unique variety in the manor: yellow Caturra is named.

Costa Rican coffee flavor belongs to the lively and beautiful type, with a strong aroma of flowers and fruits, as clear as wind chimes and long acidity is especially classic. Coffee is grown at high altitude and has high sweetness. due to the lower temperature at night, the coffee fruit grows slowly and has a stronger flavor, while the long duration of sunshine also creates a good acidity. In addition to the impact of microclimate in the producing areas, of course, it is also related to bean seeds and post-processing technology. The Dota multi-tower producing area has the above conditions, characterized by acidity and gorgeous aromas of flowers and fruits.

The beans of the Costa Rican musicians series have always been very popular because of their unique treatment and flavor performance, and the taste and flavor characteristics of the coffee are highly recognized in coffee, and even compared with the popular rosy summer. the price of raw beans has skyrocketed, which shows how much we love the special flavor.

Basic information of Beethoven

Producing area: Tarazhu producing area of Costa Rica

Manor: Carnett Manor

Altitude: 1900m

Variety: Huang Kaduai

Treatment method: washing treatment

Huang Kaduai, a hybrid of New World and Kaddura, was first bred by Brazil's Contina Agricultural Research Institute in 1949. Huang Kaduai has a delicate and clean sour taste.

Beethoven's bean is different from other musicians' series of coffee beans. Beethoven uses water washing. After harvest, Beethoven will go through a screening procedure to pick out the immature or overripe beans again, then remove the pulp, remove the mucus from the beans with a centrifugal washing machine to avoid fermentation, then wash them with clean water, and finally put them on a sunshaded viaduct to dry for 12-14 days. Keep turning to achieve uniform drying, washed beans, taste relatively clean and bright.

Baking curve

Test the flavor by cup

Cooking tutorials

Hand punching parameters are recommended:

1. Steam with 25g water for 30 seconds to allow the powder layer to fully absorb water and exhaust.

two。 The second stage of water injection to 120g; moderate height, small flow, uniform slow circle of soft water injection, the use of soaking way to let coffee powder release good substances, reduce the erosion of the powder layer

3. The third stage of water injection to 225g; when the water surface drops by 1 stroke 3, the third stage water injection is carried out to 225g, when the water surface drops slowly, indicating that the fine powder has begun to deposit in the bottom of the filter cup, slightly increasing the amount of water injection and winding speed, so that the fine powder in the bottom layer is turned over to avoid excessive extraction and bitterness; the total extraction time is 1 minute 56 seconds.

Flavor description

Wet aromas of flowers and ripe papaya, acidity of berries on the palate, sweet and juicy taste of papaya in the middle, and persistent aromas of yellow sugar and melon in the finish. High overall balance, sweet and colorful fruit tonality.