What does the nickname "coffee cherry" coffee cherry mean for coffee fruit?

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It takes 3-5 years for a coffee tree to blossom and bear fruit. When the fruit is ripe and turns red, farmers can prepare for harvest.

The red fruits are like mini cherries, so small and lovely, so we call these delicate fruits "coffee cherries" Coffee Cherry

From origin to delicacy

When I saw the coffee tree for the first time, it was really amazing. The coffee fruits looked very much like cherries. They were called CHERRY in English and "coffee cherries" in Chinese. There is a lot of fruit from the manor, and after picking, no matter how to deal with it, it will go through the process of sieving out inferior floating beans.

The 'tanning method' will be laid in the sun field for two to three weeks, and the shell will be removed after the moisture content in the coffee beans has dropped to 10-14%. It is characterized by a special aroma, but if the sun hygiene environment is not good, it is prone to withered branches and leaves or mildew.

The 'water washing method' uses a machine to remove the peel and pulp, dissolves the pectin after fermentation, then rinses it with clean water, and then reduces the moisture content to 10-14% by sun or machine air-drying, and then removes the shell. After fermentation and washing, most of the coffee shows a clear and bright sour taste.

On the other hand, the 'honey treatment' is not to wash the fermented pectin with clean water, but to use natural sunlight to reduce the water content in beans. Combining sun and water washing techniques, generally speaking, the aroma is stronger than water washing, and the taste is more balanced.

The processed raw coffee beans are stored in a certain temperature and humidity environment. Experienced bean bakers remind us to pay attention to the raw bean resume processing date when buying, and not to rely too much on the baked bean date to ensure that every link is fresh.

Coffee beans are graded?

According to the regulations of the Hawaiian Coffee Association, the grading standards of coffee beans produced in Hawaii are as follows

The so-called Type 1 refers to a coffee fruit with two halves of flat beans. What you usually see on the market belongs to this kind of beans. Type2 means that there is only one round bean in a coffee fruit, PEABERRY, also known as a male bean. In the past, it was discarded as defective beans, but it was accidentally found that perhaps this package contains more nutrients, its flavor is more pure and thicker, and its output is about 5% of the total, so it is rare and precious, and it has become quite popular in the boutique bean market recently. Due to the lack of quantity and quality, in order to help consumers identify, the association graded according to this standard. As shown in the figure, Extra Fancy is the rarest and most expensive, followed by Fancy, NO1, Select and Prime. The first three raw beans are green in color. The bean diameter of Extra Fancy was the largest, followed by Fancy, and then NO1. The number of defective beans in Extra Fancy and Fancy is strictly controlled and needs to be picked and screened by hand, so it is the top grade in the fine products.