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Unlike many of the coffee you have tasted, Antigua coffee in Guatemala is full-bodied and smooth with a hint of tobacco. The touch between cocoa and tobacco will amaze everyone who tastes Antigua coffee for the first time. I lamented that this strange taste bud experience is really different.

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Guatemala pure Antigua SHB

Recommended: ♥♥♥♥

Fanshi label: floral fragrance, delicate, mellow

Baking degree: shallow baking

Recommended crowd: entry lovers of boutique coffee, popular taste

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Brief introduction of beans

▶ Origin: Guatemala

Antigua Valley is the oldest coffee producing area in Guatemala. Volcanoes and extremely shallow water tables form a dry microclimate, rich volcanic soil, low humidity, strong sunlight and cool night winds are characteristic of Antigua.

▶ bean seed: Bourbon, Caturra,Typica,Others

Guatemalan coffee beans belong to bourbon coffee beans, is one of the more sour varieties, mellow taste and slightly wild, the most suitable for blending coffee. This kind of coffee beans includes Bourbon, Caturra,Typica and others.

▶ treatment: washing

Washing retains more mellow taste of this bean, as well as a high aroma and lively sour taste.

▶ baking: shallow baking

Antigua coffee has a velvety mellow, rich and lively spice flavor, richer taste, and it has a fascinating tobacco flavor, and fine sour taste, suitable for light roasting.

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Bean evaluation

▶ appearance

Single appearance: the appearance of the bean is unusually smooth, and the hardness is very high, full, thick and brown.

Overall appearance: coffee beans are uniform in size, smooth and round

Rating: ♥

▶ grinding

Powder: take 15 grams of coffee beans, medium-fine grinding, fine particles, sugar size, fine and uniform drying powder

Dry aroma: full-bodied, with a hint of tobacco and sour fruit

Grinding score: ♥

▶ steaming

1. With 90 °water and 1:2 water, fill the circle with coffee powder spread on the filter paper.

two。 Within 30 seconds after water injection, the coffee powder "activates" and expands like a hamburger

3. Principle: the air is heated to expand, so that coffee releases a lot of carbon dioxide, coffee powder will form upward bulge.

Inflation score: ♥♥♥♥

▶ water injection extraction

1. When the highest point of steaming expansion retracts, inject water into the middle wall and draw a circle slowly.

2. The ratio of powder to powder was controlled at 1:15 and the total extraction time was completed within 2:30.

3. During the brewing period, the flow should be stable, the speed should not be too fast, and the water should not float over the coffee completely.

4. The coffee after extraction is clear and clear.

Wet fragrance: nutty oil, tea, cream, wood, blackcurrant, light spice

Color score: ♥

Wet incense score: ♥♥♥♥

Main flavor of ▶

Plums, roasted hazelnuts, dried wood, maltose, roasted millet, smoke

Antigua Valley is the oldest coffee producing area in Guatemala. Volcanoes and extremely shallow water tables form a dry microclimate, rich volcanic soil, low humidity, strong sunlight and cool night winds are characteristic of Antigua.

▶ professional cup test reference

Fragrance/aroma/flavor/aftertaste: plums, roasted hazelnuts, dried wood, maltose, roasted cereal, smoke

Acidity (acidity): acidity of plums and green fruits

Taste (body/mouthfeel): sense of convergence

When the attractive fragrance lingers on the tip of your tongue, there is an indescribable mystery. Full-bodied, rich on the palate, with tobacco flavor. The palate is soft and smooth, with a slightly charcoal-burning flavor in the mellow, as if the sweetness of chocolate is mixed with smoke. Because of this unique charcoal incense, Antigua coffee is also known as "cigarette coffee".

You may feel dull at the first sip, but as the coffee cools down, you will find it slightly sweet and be surprised by its depth. This is an entry-level bean for washing treatment, which is suitable for people who have just come into contact with boutique coffee.

● Antigua coffee bean brand recommendation

The Guatemala Antigua coffee beans baked in front street coffee-[Flower God Coffee] is fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of half a pound 227 grams, the price is only about 85 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 powders per cup of coffee, 15 cups of coffee can be made in a bag, which costs only about 5 or 6 yuan per cup, which is very cost-effective for coffee shops to sell dozens of yuan a cup.

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