How many kinds of coffee fruit treatments are there? Sun, half-water washing, half-sun washing, whole water washing, honey treatment

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How many kinds of coffee fruit treatments are there? What is the difference between sunbathing, half-washing, half-sunbathing, full-washing and honey treatment? What's the difference between different treatments?

It refers to the process of turning ripe red fruits into dried raw beans. Each treatment method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and is affected by the natural environment and demand of the producing area. Therefore, each producing area has its own suitable treatment method, which can be roughly divided into three treatment methods.

Different treatments can create different flavors of coffee, which occupies a very important part of coffee flavor.

☀️ solarization method

Also known as natural drying and non-washing treatment, the collected coffee fruit is dried in the sun and shelled, which absorbs the taste of the peel and pulp in the process of exposure for a long time, while making the sweetness and alcohol thickness of the coffee fuller, easy to produce unique aroma.

Directly put the coffee fruit in the sun for exposure, when the moisture content of the coffee bean is lower than a certain degree, and then use the machine to remove the exocarp to the endocarp at once, the advantage is rich in flavor, the disadvantage is that it will produce more defective beans and need more space.

Full washing method

After removing the pericarp and pulp, soak in water in the fermentation tank to ferment, remove the residual pectin mucosa on the inner pericarp, and then rinse with water, which has the rich acidity of one of the fine coffee conditions.

First remove the exocarp and pulp, leaving the pectin layer, then put the coffee beans into the fermentation tank, make the pectin layer disappear and then dry, and finally remove the exocarp, the advantage is that the yield of raw beans is higher, and the disadvantage is that the washed beans are sour, and the aroma is not as good as the sun method, and the sweetness is not as high as the sun method.

️semi-washing method

Semi-washing is to choose not to put the raw beans with pectin layer into the fermentation tank, but to remove the pectin layer of raw beans by machine, then dry and remove the pericarp, which is not as sweet as sun beans but not washed with water.

Also known as half-washing, half-sun method, this is a compromise between drying and washing, after removing the peel and pulp, do not use a fermentation tank, but let it retain the pectin mucosa to be dried in the sun, and then remove the dried gelatin. the flavor produced is between the sun drying method and the water washing method.

Coffee cherry is composed of exocarp, pulp, pectin layer, endocarp, silver peel and coffee germ from outside to inside, so coffee beans will be treated by various methods before they are turned into raw beans for export.

️half-sun method

Half-sun drying is to directly expose the raw beans with pectin layer to the sun, and remove the peel after drying until the moisture content is lower than a certain degree, while the treatment according to the residual degree of the pectin layer is derived into another treatment-honey treatment.

Honey treatment method

According to the degree of residual pectin layer, it can be divided into black honey, red honey, yellow honey and white honey treatment, and the advantage of honey treatment is that it can be deacidified, so Costa Rica prefers honey treatment to sour beans to make it sweeter.