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What is COE? What's so special about Nicaraguan COE coffee beans?

Cup of Excellence referred to as COE, a boutique coffee rating system.

The origin of the Cup of Excellence system:

The reason for giving producers an incentive to grow high-quality coffee is not just "I want to grow delicious coffee!" This kind of self-consciousness, but also have high profits. Therefore, there is a high-quality coffee evaluation meeting, using the COE system, according to the score evaluation ranking.

Frequency and process of COE:

This meeting is held once a year, and the growers of fine coffee submit their best coffee beans to the national or international censors of the meeting. After at least five reviews, the most advanced coffee beans will be awarded the title of COE.

This evaluation system was adopted by coffee production groups in Brazil in 1999 and is now widely used in Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

The role of COE:

Coffee with the title of COE can be sold at high prices at international online auctions dominated by boutique coffee.

This system can not only enhance the coffee manor's desire for production, but also enhance the evaluation and local popularity of the coffee manor and its surrounding areas, and then increase the coffee trading volume, which has multiple effects.

The total score after the cup evaluation, the significance represented, and the standard represented by the individual score:

1) there are eight items in the CoE scale, the highest score of each item is 8 points, the lowest score is 0 points, and the weighted 36 points, so the total score is 100 points.

2) 6 indicates that the project reaches the standard of CoE competition level and belongs to good quality (fine). If it is totally unacceptable, give 0 (unacceptable), 4 if the quality is average (Ordinary), 2 rough (Poor), and 8 (great) if it is excellent or even perfect.

3) the discrimination of total score:

If the total score is between 70 and 79, this sample belongs to the general better commercial bean.

If the total score is in the range of 80,83.5, this sample belongs to fine coffee.

If the total score is more than 84, this sample belongs to the CoE competition level, that is, the high level of winning beans.

Characteristics of Nicaraguan coffee beans

Nicaragua coffee is obscure compared with Guatemala coffee. Compared with high mountain beans in Guatemala, Nicaraguan beans are more balanced and lack a little of their own characteristics. Its particles are moderate in size, mild in taste and very aromatic and mellow. Nicaragua is located in central Central America, and the best coffee in Nicaragua is produced in Sinotega and Novo Segovia in Matagalpa.

Nicaraguan producing area

Nicaragua is mainly divided into four major producing areas, namely, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sub-region (Segovias), Madaguelba / Henodeka region (Matagalpa/Jinotega), Borgo region (Boaco) and Pacific Coast region (Pacific). The highest planting height in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about 1500mur2000, and the coffee produced is the highest SHG (StrictlyHighGrown).

Cultivation in Nicaragua

Planted with volcanic ash and shaded trees, it produces high-quality Nicaraguan coffee with a mediocre, soft and slightly sour flavor. Nicaraguan coffee is the largest of all coffee beans, while MADRIZ (Madriz) is located in the mountains of northern Nicaragua, adjacent to NuevaSegovia,Jinotega and Esteli, the area is quiet and elegant, with the famous Somoto Canyon, and the local residents are mainly indigenous peoples of various tribes and people who mixed with the Spaniards in the colonial period (mostly Chorotegas). The local production of coffee, the development of arts and crafts processing trade, as well as traditional delicacies. Madriz is characterized by a cool climate, its small town looks simple, but features beautiful roofs and special tile white buildings, there are also many coffee plantations, and the mountains are covered with verdant pine and oak forests.

Madriz is an ecological coffee with a very hard shell. In the pure natural planting environment, it uses more complex operations to maintain the delicate aroma and taste of the coffee; it is produced in northern Nicaragua between Matagalpa and Jinotega, with an average annual rainfall of 1500-1700mm and a temperature of 20-29 degrees Celsius. All the coffee is selected manually, and the labor and time cost is much higher than that of ordinary beans.

Finally, how to cook the beans?

Make Nicaragua by hand (medium baking) 1 cup, recommend 15 grams of powder, 88 ~ 89 degrees water temperature, water powder ratio at 1:15, small Fuji grind degree 4, so that the taste extracted by hand is clean and bright, full of sweetness, changeable layers, fruity aftertaste, high sweetness and soft acidity.

Nicaraguan coffee bean brand recommendation

The Nicaraguan coffee beans roasted on Qianjie Coffee-Fairview Manor washing [Maracadura] is fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, each pack of 227 grams, the price is only 90 yuan. Calculated on the basis of 15 grams of coffee beans per cup, a bag can make 15 cups of coffee, which costs only about 6 yuan per cup, which is recommended by conscience compared to the price of hundreds of cups sold in cafes.

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