The difference between Honey treatment, Solar treatment and Water washing Coffee beans are treated with honey and added sugar

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The most common coffee treatments are sun exposure, water washing and honey treatment. Although we often hear of these treatments, what's the difference? Please take out your notebook and take good notes.

Natural:

This is the most traditional and simplest way to deal with it.

Process: take the coffee cherry from the tree and dry it directly in the sun field by ⇒. ⇒ drying to make moisture is only about 12% ⇒ to peel off the whole pulp.

To put it simply, it is dry with pulp, so it usually has fruit acid, and Body will also be very strong, the so-called fruit acid here is more inclined to fermentation or acetic acid feeling, some processing plants or farmers will directly put the coffee cherries on the ground to dry, increasing the chance of contact with the soil, so if it is not properly handled, the coffee will be contaminated with soil and absorb the taste of the soil, which is easy to have a bad flavor similar to the soil.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that some processing plants will throw coffee cherries into the water before the sun, and pick out the floating defective coffee cherries before starting the sun, so the sun does not mean that there is no need for water at all.

Washing (Washed):

The most strenuous method of treatment, just mentioned that the sun is dried with pulp, the principle of washing is to remove the pulp dry

Process: pick coffee cherry ⇒ into the water to remove impurities (stones, branches, defective beans) first remove ⇒ and then throw into the pulp removal machine ⇒ soak 12Murray 36 hours on the beans to soften the glue layer, in order to rinse ⇒ into the fermentation tank (mucus is decomposed) ⇒ rinse ⇒ coffee beans with sheepskin (Parchment) to dry directly.

The quality of washing is usually better than that of the sun (but not absolutely), and the aroma and thickness of the sun is usually better than that of beans, but the flavor of washing is particularly clean and the acidity is bright, and the acidity here is different from that of the sun. the acid washed in water is usually more like citrus and lemon, which is different from the ripe fruit aroma in the sun, but there is also a risk of overfermentation.

With the development of science and technology, there is a pectin removal machine, so washing beans does not necessarily need water, it can still be called water-washed beans (principle: remove pulp and dry)

Honey treatment (Honey):

The point is to dry with pectin (viscose layer).

Process: after the peel is removed, ⇒ dries the sheepskin beans with a little pulp and pectin.

If there is more flesh left in the sheepskin beans, usually the dried beans will have a little black trace, which is called black honey.

In addition, there are yellow honey, orange honey and even white honey (there is less pectin residue in the pulp). We usually judge only by the color of beans.

Generally speaking, the flavor of black honey is more like the sun, while the flavor of white honey tends to be washed, so the treatment of honey we drink is different each time.

Some people say that honey treatment tastes sweet, but it is called honey treatment because it is as shiny as honey and sticky (like peanut candy) when carrying pectin.