How to distinguish the appearance and flavor characteristics of sun-dried coffee beans

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We often see some treatment names such as "Natural", "Washed", "Semi-Washed" and "Honey" in coffee packaging and coffee bean introductions. Do you know these treatments and differences? Today, let's introduce sun-dried coffee beans.

● I. processing process

1) picking. It is divided into manual picking and machine picking. Fine coffee is hand-picked ripe coffee fruit.

2) screening. It is divided into large pools for screening (ripe fruit sinks below and immature fruit floats and is separated) or manual screening.

3) dry. Put it in a cement tanning place or African bed scaffolding for about 1 month.

Until the coffee fruit of Shuilingling is transformed into a dried coffee fruit with a moisture content of about 12%.

4) remove dried pericarp, pulp and endocarp (parchment, parchment).

5) artificial screening of raw beans, removal of defective beans, and grading according to size / quality. This process is the most time-consuming and energetic part of solarization.

A tool for grading according to the size of beans.

● II. Appearance

The raw beans of sun-dried coffee beans are slightly yellowish brown, and the central line of cooked beans is usually not obvious. It is different from the obvious central line of washing raw beans and cooked beans.

● II. Flavor.

Tanning is the oldest method of coffee processing. Because the previous sun-tanned coffee was not carefully selected and was randomly spread on the ground covered with gravel to dry, it was easy to cause mildew, sundries, water inequality defects due to insufficient sunlight, insufficient turning, improper fermentation, poor ventilation and other problems, which had a fatal impact on the flavor, so it was once considered by many coffee professionals that sun-cured coffee could not enter the ranks of fine coffee. But later, with the development of the sun-drying method, it was improved in every aspect of the processing, such as manual picking, African bed drying, and paying attention to inspection and turning, manual screening, so as to greatly improve the quality of sun-dried beans.

In the boutique coffee we come into contact with today, the outstanding flavor of excellent sun-washed beans is usually incomparable to that of washed beans, not only with more elegant fermented aroma, but also with higher sweetness and mellow thickness compared with washing. However, if sun-dried beans need to achieve a clean and excellent taste, it will cost more labor than washing. Therefore, we often find that beans of the same grade and season from the same place are usually more expensive to be sunburned than washed.

Brand recommendation of ● sun-cured coffee beans

Qianjie Coffee freshly roasted single-product sun-baked coffee beans-such as Sun Yega Chevrolet and Sun West Dharma Coffee are fully guaranteed in brand and quality and are suitable for brewing in a variety of utensils. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a bag of half a pound 227 grams, the price is only 70-90 yuan. According to the calculation of 200ml per cup of coffee and the ratio of powder to water at 1:15, 15 cups of fine coffee can be made in a bag, and each cup of coffee only costs about 5 or 6 yuan, which is very cost-effective for cafes to sell dozens of yuan a cup.

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