Kenyan Coffee drinking Law Kenyan Coffee grading system Kenyan Coffee characteristics

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Kenya's boutique coffee industry is different from the general, mostly in the form of a combination of small farmers, wet treatment plants and cooperatives. Farmers will send the harvested coffee cherries to nearby processing plants or cooperatives in the shortest possible time. At the same time, cooperatives also regularly send staff to tutor local farmers to ensure that each producer has professional planting skills to maintain the quality of coffee.

Kenyan coffee is not only a giant in the coffee market, but also a model student of fine coffee. Kenya Coffee Bureau has meticulous research, development and quality management of coffee. Kenya Coffee Bureau holds the taste buds of many coffee fans, and traders are only interested in high-quality beans. High-quality coffee grows along the slopes of the Kenyan mountains, at a height of 4200 to 6800 feet, and the best are small coffee farms.

Located in Kenya below the equator of East Africa, the coffee beans planted are high-quality Arabica, thick and round in meat, and divided into seven grades according to the size of the beans, and the taste is divided into six grades from top to bottom. "Kenya AA" is highly praised and respected in the taste recommendation, with a slightly sour and thick fragrance, which is very popular among Europeans, especially in the UK. Kenyan coffee has surpassed Costa Rican coffee to become one of the most popular coffee.

The grading system of raw coffee beans in Kenya is established by the government to manage the quality and coach coffee farmers. According to the criteria of particle size, weight, shape and appearance, it is divided into AA,AB,PB,C,TT,T,E,MH and ML, in which AA,PB is a high-quality coffee raw bean with low defect rate and flavor tut.

AA TOP

The size of the particles is full. Charming aroma, citrus-like fruit aromas on the palate, rich chocolate and sweet tail in the taste, forming a unique flavor of top Kenyan coffee. According to the grading system of raw beans, AA TOP accounts for about 10% of the total output.

PB

In English, it is called cowpea (round bean), which is distinguished by its appearance as an oval single coffee bean. With citrus aromas, rich chocolate taste and sweet finish, it is the most widely roasted coffee bean. PB accounts for only 5% of the total output.

Coffee grading in Kenya

E refers to the elephant, but not the elephant bean species in the breed. Generally speaking, there are two seeds in a fruit, affixed face to face, so there will be a flat side, called flat beans, mother beans or double beans. E is a bean in which two seeds stick together in the process of growing up and become oversized. A small amount is a naturally occurring variation.

The hole of AA screen is about 7.20mm, the price of this grade is better.

The filter size of AB An is 6.80mm and that of B is 6.20mm. These two are sold together, so they are called AB. In a harvest, most of the coffee beans will be concentrated in this grade.

PB is called Peaberry in English and small round beans in Taiwan, or public beans or single peas, relative to ordinary flat beans. It is rare to get small and round beans because there is only one seed in the fruit. The effect on flavor is inconclusive, and some people like it so much that PB will be singled out for sale.

C the hole size is 4.8 mi 5.6 mm, which can be regarded as a small grain of beans.

TT is usually a defective bean that falls to this level. Cry.

From T to this level, there are usually only crumbs, defective beans, and small beans less than 4.8 mm.

Beans of very poor quality, such as MH/ML overcooked and dropped on the ground, will not be exported.

Commonly seen as AA+, AA++, AA Top, AB+, is the trader's own rating, not in the official system of Kenya. Different trade associations have different definitions, so just refer to it.

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