What is honey treatment? What is the sun? What are their strengths and weaknesses?

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Honey treatment method

Removal of floating beans-peeling-drying-detachment

Put the selected coffee cherries into the peeling machine and remove the peel and part of the pulp. The raw coffee beans with part of the pulp and pectin are put on the drying ground to dry so that their moisture content is reduced to about 12%. Finally, remove the parchment of raw coffee beans.

Excellent: honey treatment can be said to be an upgraded version of the sun-tanning method, because the pulp is removed first, mildew is avoided. In addition, there is no need to clean the pulp residue on the coffee beans, which also reduces the cost of water treatment. In terms of taste, as the raw coffee beans are dried in the form of pectin, the coffee beans absorb the sugar in the pectin, greatly improving the sweetness of the coffee.

Bad: the steps are tedious and the cost is high.

This is the honey treatment.

Sun treatment

Removal of floating beans-sun-detachment

After removing the floating beans, lay the coffee cherries in the sun for 2-3 weeks, and turn them several times a day. The water content of the coffee cherries after the sun should be 10% Mel 14%.

After the sun is set, the coffee cherries will become dry and hard, and then put them into the machine to remove the peel, pulp and parchment of the coffee beans.

Excellent: the process is simple and the cost is low (especially in water-deficient producing areas). Under the premise of proper treatment, alcohol has better thickness and sweetness, and most of them have ripe fruit flavor or wine flavor.

Bad: strong dependence on the weather, the degree of dryness is difficult to control. In the sun process, it is easy to mix with miscellaneous odors, at the same time, because the pulp has not been removed, it is prone to mildew and lack of stability.