Introduction to the origin of honey treatment of coffee beans at Pokuit Flint Manor in Panama

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When Flint Manor became famous, we had to mention an important person-Graciano Cruz. The status of Graciano Cruz may be very familiar to all of you. As a pioneer and promoter of Panamanian coffee tanning and honey treatment, he co-founded Ninety Plus with Josseph Brodsky, and then founded HiU, extending its experience to many producing areas and bringing Flint Manor to the world stage. The batch of Flint Manor we introduced this year is also a special reserved edition that we and Graciano Cruz personally selected. In November, the coffee show Graciano Cruz also showed up to hold a sharing meeting for friends in Taiwan. Graciano Cruz is committed to experimenting, developing and promoting honey and sun treatments that use almost no water source and reduce the impact on the environment. All of his estates only produce honey treatment and sun exposure, and they have not consumed any valuable water resources in post-coffee processing for many years.

In addition to the popular batch of sun tanning, another signature of Graciano Cruz-Honey Panamanian Coffee is a treasure not to be missed. With today's market myth in a higher degree of fermentation, flavor closer to the sun of the black honey treatment, Graciano Cruz honey treatment is worthy of our careful aftertaste of the classics, especially the geisha / rose summer honey treatment batches, in the honey treatment to increase the coffee texture thickness complexity at the same time, for the geisha / rose summer original intention of the charming and detailed place clearly, let us shout in the cup test, aftertaste again and again.

Soil-laterite, volcanic soil

Post-processing yard-- HIU

Planner-Graciano cruz

Award record--

2016 Best Panama BOP geisha Special Group first place

The second best Panama BOP brothel tanning group in 2016

The second best Panama BOP brothel washing group in 2016

Designated beans for 2016WCE World Cup test

2016WBC Coffee Masters American designated beans won the fourth place.

Jurutungo, Panama Coffee Flint Manor, which means "out of reach" in Spanish, is located 1850 meters above sea level on the western border of Panama and Costa Rica. It was founded by Don Jos é Manuel Gallardo in 1970. It covers an area of not more than 20 hectares, but the fertile soil and microclimate in the park give birth to Red Cadura. It is famous for its perfect taste and gorgeous aroma. Unfortunately, after 2000, the owner of the manor was in poor health and the management of the manor became more and more loose, and the former famous coffee garden gradually disappeared into the smoke and grass.

Eleven years later, Graciano Cruz, the founder of the Panamanian boutique coffee industry, known as the godfather of honey processing, took a fancy to this flint manor with excellent potential, so he worked with the two daughters of the old owner Don Jose Manuel, Dafne and Damaris Gallardo, to restore the former prosperity of the manor, first to remove weeds and replant the manor to grow younger and stronger plants, and to pursue the red cherry policy of picking only red to ripe coffee fruits. According to the sweetness meter, each batch is tested to ensure the extreme sweetness of the coffee fruit, and then under the principle that Graciano Cruz never learns to use or pollute the water resources as far as possible, all the coffee fruits are dried in the sun on an elevated bed and turned regularly with artificial high frequency to avoid uneven drying for as long as 4 weeks. Finally, the completely dried fruit is stored for another 90-120 days. The whole process is time-consuming and laborious. Insist on not using mechanical drying in order to retain the sweetness of the coffee fruit, while allowing moderate fermentation of sugar to develop a complex and strong personality, just like Graciano Cruz's mantra "SWEETTTTT", processed coffee such as jade syrup is not only sweet into your mouth but also sweeter into your heart.

Kaddura of Flint Manor has made a comeback under the efforts of Graciano Cruz and others, and it remains to be seen what sparks will happen to the old classics under the skillful hands of the godfather.

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