What kind of coffee is elephant bean? How is the size of elephant beans measured? How big are the eyes of elephant beans?

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Coffee beans are generally divided into three categories: Arabica coffee beans, Robusta coffee beans and Liberica coffee beans. Ranked by bean size, the three coffee varieties are Liberica beans with the largest particles, then Robusta beans and finally Arabica beans. Arabica coffee beans are the best flavor and sweetest of the three coffee beans, just like the Arabica coffee beans sold in Front Street Coffee Shop.

But Arabica beans don't have to be small beans, because the variety of iron pickup has mutated to produce a larger bean, the elephant bean. Its characteristic is that it is much larger than ordinary beans. Elephant beans are concentrated in Central American countries. At present, the main producing areas of elephant beans are in Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil and Zaire. The best elephant beans are grown in Mexico and Guatemala. Overall, the taste of the bean is balanced, round and soft texture, moderate aroma and a lighter alcohol, so that it is highly rated in the industry.

Elephant beans are an exotic coffee bean compared to other coffee beans, which are three times or more larger than other coffee beans. The taxonomic name of the elephant bean is Maragogipe (also known as Maragogype), from Maragogipe County, Bahia, Brazil.

According to Qianjie, the taste of elephant beans grown at 700-800 meters is ordinary and has no characteristics, but giant elephant beans grown at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters are sweet and charming, with strong aroma. In addition to their eye-catching appearance, giant elephant beans (Maragogype) is a variety of iron pickup (Arabica native bean species); its trees, leaves, and fruits are much larger than ordinary Arabica, and its fruit is full and hard. It is the only coffee in Central America without sharp acidity, so it enjoys the reputation of Central America. It is very close to the elegant Blue Mountain coffee bean. It is sour and sweet, and its Body is full. It becomes very attractive. The taste of giant elephant beans is similar to that of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans, but the price is only about 2/3 of that of Jamaica Blue Mountain. It is also the only elephant bean selected for the COE award in recent years, so some coffee shops sell Blue Mountain coffee beans.

The taste of elephant bean is very thick, high altitude and shade planting, fruit ripening time is longer, fruit yield is less, nutrients are concentrated, flavor naturally develops completely. It is called a giant elephant bean because it is 2-3 times larger than the average coffee bean. Therefore, the picking process of elephant beans is a little more difficult than the general coffee bean harvest. Because the coffee tree of the elephant bean is relatively tall, and the coffee fruit is too large, the washing method common in Central America brings a certain difficulty. Therefore, most coffee farmers do not want to grow elephant beans coffee beans, so it also results in lower yields, more expensive products, and higher prices.

Front Street has been working to build a profile on coffee beans, so Front Street certainly can't miss this elephant bean coffee bean. Front Street has a coffee bean from Guatemala. Because the coffee particles of this elephant bean are larger, both for roasters and roasting equipment requirements are relatively high, because this elephant bean is about three times the size of ordinary Arabica beans, Qianjie learned that in many coffee-producing countries to green bean size as the standard in the green bean grading system, usually defined as 17-18 mesh coffee beans for the highest level of reality, rarely more than 19 mesh. The Indonesian mantenin coffee in the front street coffee shop is very large, among which the Indonesian gold mantenin has reached more than 18 mesh; while the elephant bean mostly can reach 20 mesh and above. Baking this bean is challenging.

So you need to master certain skills in the baking process. The fire is too big, it seems that the surface color should be able to lower the beans, but the interior may not be fully cooked, resulting in a astringent taste, or may be baked for too long to cause over-charring, losing flavor, this really needs a little skill to master.

Therefore, in the process of baking this kind of elephant bean, Qianjie elongates the dehydration process, absorbs heat slowly in the baking process, the process of Mena reaction is also slow, the yellowing point is 6 minutes, in the first batch of baking, the temperature of the lower bean is relatively high, the temperature of the bean is 200 degrees, the fire power is relatively increased, and the fire power is gradually increased according to the needs in the baking process. Under this operation method, the dehydration time of coffee is relatively long, and the heating rate is 6-8 degrees every 30 seconds. This will prevent the baked beans from being raw and ripe.

Front Street When brewing this coffee, use filter cup: V60 Water temperature: 90-92℃ Powder amount: 15 g Powder water ratio: 1:15 Grinding degree: Medium grinding Brewing method: Steaming with 30g water for 30s, injecting 95g water in a circle at the center of small water flow, namely 125g water in stages, continuing to inject water until 225g when the water level drops and is about to expose the powder bed, removing the filter cup when the water level drops and is about to expose the powder bed, and extracting for' 200 ". Qianjie believes that the use of hand-washing is one of the simplest and most convenient ways to show the flavor of the producing area. This kind of bean can obviously feel the sour and sweet feeling and soft taste, with the sour taste of lemon, passion fruit, plum and plum, as well as the aftertaste of brown sugar.

After buying elephant beans from different producing areas for many times in Front Street, Front Street believes that elephant beans from Nicaragua coffee producing areas have the best flavor. Among them, Mamamina coffee grown in Nicaragua has the best flavor. Among them, Qianjie also tested other coffee beans from Mamamina Manor. The coffee beans produced by the manor are of very good quality. They think that their flavor is thick and layered. You can feel the aroma of black berries and blackberries at the entrance. Black plum carries the aroma of citrus peel, the overall flavor is solid, the taste is smooth and sweet.

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