Introduction to all kinds of coffee beans

Usually a bag of coffee beans is more or less mixed with some round beans, like a mocha. But there are also special people who pick out round beans and sell them. The most common one in the collection is Tanshania round beans (TanzaniaPeaberry). Hawaii is also very common.

Usually we buy coffee beans, one side is flat, and there is a crack in the coffee cherry, which is the side of the two seeds (that is, coffee beans) in the coffee cherry. This kind of normal beans is called flat beans (or lentils, flatbeans).

Some pulps contain only one seed (for unknown reasons), which takes up the entire inner space of the pulp and looks like two smaller flat beans stuck together; this kind of bean, which we call peaberry, is often the top of a young coffee tree.

As far as I know, although some people think that round beans are strong and fragrant, the mainstream opinion on the Internet is that there is no difference between feeling the taste and flat beans. The price of round beans is higher just because of less production. However, if you use a popcorn machine to bake, the beans will roll around and bake faster and more evenly, which may affect the taste; while the length of the beans is usually smaller than the flat beans of the same tree, it may make the beans thicker and tighter ──, of course, it may also be malnourished.

Now that we've talked about the details, let's mention Elephant beans (or Big beans, Maragogipe) by the way. In the past, it was a bit scary to see some cafes serving "Mallaby" or "Mara" Colombia, which always reminded me of my fingers, but I couldn't find a similar place name on the map of Colombia. After going back and forth through Kummer's book, I suddenly realized that "Mara" originally refers to elephant beans, although Maragogipe is in Brazil, but the term can refer to elephant beans from any place of origin.

For unified beans, the bigger the beans, the more advanced they are, the more expensive they are, but the quality is not necessarily proportional to the quality. We have mentioned that the night in the coffee producing area had better be cold, so that the coffee beans do not grow too fast and become a loosely structured inferior product (by the same token, the quality of summer tea is not good). However, the taste of smaller beans is not guaranteed to be mellow, but it may just be stunted. So the size of the classification as a reference, do not take it too seriously, the final referee is still his own tongue and nose (and purse).