The efficacy of bean cultivation and the time of coffee cultivation period: details about coffee cultivation

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The correct way to raise beans how long is the period of raising coffee beans? Why raise beans?

There is a famous saying in the movie Golden Secret Service (Kingsman): etiquette, extraordinary achievements. (Manners maketh man.), from the point of view of ripe coffee beans, it can be said to grow beans and promote a good flavor. It's a complete lie.

What is raising beans? In fact, it is to seal the roasted coffee beans in a proper container. The so-called appropriate containers, can be all kinds of jars, of course, glass is better (less likely to affect the smell of coffee beans), can also be coffee bean bags, some have an one-way breather valve, some do not. (it is said that growing beans in valveless coffee bags or sealed cans fills the container with carbon dioxide emitted by coffee beans, resulting in air pressure, which can prolong the preservation of coffee beans and achieve a better effect.) then let the coffee beans remain in this container for a period of time, which varies from 1 week to 2 months depending on the baking degree or person. When the time is up, take out the raised coffee beans and make a balanced and delicious cup of coffee.

The term bean cultivation is also called ripe, can be thought of as fruit, some fruits just bought back can not be eaten, must be ripe for a period of time to taste sweet and delicious, but freshly baked coffee beans can be drunk, ripe is to make her taste better.

Speaking of this, I suddenly thought of tea. Tea and coffee are just the opposite. The so-called opposite refers to the difference before and after baking. Before roasting, raw coffee beans can be kept for a long time, usually for at least a year and a half, while freshly picked tea needs to be treated immediately to make tea that we can generally brew through procedures such as running water, withering, baking and so on. at this time, the tea can be stored for a long time-ripe stage, stored properly for a few years, but the roasted coffee can only be preserved for 1-2 months. If it goes on, the oil in the coffee cell will begin to decay and oxidize to produce oil consumption, and I am afraid that many of the aromatic substances in coffee are contained in the oil, which will be destroyed.

Let's go back and look at the right and wrong of raising beans. One pie is mainly fresh, baked directly to drink, about 2 weeks to drink, you can drink coffee flavor changes. The other group should not start drinking until a month later, which aims to let you drink the more balanced flavor of coffee beans directly. In fact, there is no contradiction between the two, and each has its own advantages.

For shallow baked beans, the efficacy of raising beans can be felt most. Perhaps it is because the shallow roasted coffee beans are relatively tight, the cell wall is a bit hard, and the carbon dioxide left in it takes more time to release after baking, and the taste varies greatly after ripening for 1-2 months.

In fact, in the idea, I belong to raise beans, cooked into a pie, but in fact, I do not have much patience, can not wait so long to drink almost finished, for my personal favorite red cherry project sun Yegashifi / Like, I often bake it within two weeks to a month, I like Like's rich aroma of melons and fruits, sweet Hami melon and papaya, magnolia fragrance But for a certain baking, because the baking is very shallow (the bad habit of the Taiwanese bean baker), how to drink is not to get the sweet spot you want, raise it, ripen it, after 6 weeks, the thought of quickly opening up to drink, after the eyes shine, sour, sweet, the aroma is quite mature, originally similar to the acid value of fruit, turned into the acid value of preserves, quite delicious. But another Costa Rican bean baked in shallow water on the same day has gone downhill.

Therefore, beans can not be used in one way, or more testing, more comparison, when selecting coffee beans is not necessarily like picking milk at 7-11, choose the latest, if you want to drink immediately, you can pick out those that have been baked for 3-4 weeks, and if you are not in a hurry to drink, choose the freshly baked ones, but as far as the baking policy of suburban coffee is concerned, the main thing is to bake beans after obtaining the demand.

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