Panamanian BOP Champion Sofia Manor introduces Sophia Rosa Coffee Bean roasting reference suggestion

Since Rosa Coffee became famous, many coffee farms around the world have grown Rosa Coffee. The famous Panamanian Emerald Manor is undoubtedly the most famous, but many Panamanian estates are growing rosy summer coffee, and there are many excellent manors, which are just overshadowed by the name of the Emerald Manor. Today, Qianjie will introduce you to a very excellent Rosa Manor, which is the highest coffee plantation in Panama-Sofia Manor.

Sofia Manor

After Rosa Coffee became famous, many coffee farms are growing Rosa Coffee, and even Yunnan is growing Rosa Coffee. According to Qianjie Coffee, Sofia Manor almost only grows Rose Summer. The delicate white flower and fruit flavor of Rose Summer Coffee makes a lot of glutton crazy. And Sofia Manor Rose summer flavor, according to the best Panamanian judges feedback, she has an unusual rose summer flavor. In addition to the floral aroma, good sweetness and acidity, her floral fragrance is more likely to be combined with a variety of fruit flavors.

Founded in 2008, Finca Sophia is located on the southwest side of Panama's Volc á n Bar ú. It covers an area of about 19 hectares and grows coffee at an altitude of 1900-2100m. Compared with other well-known Panamanian estates, Sofia Manor is very small, like an experimental farm, there is no way to mass production, can only specialize in small quantities of ultra-high-quality coffee.

The manor was originally abandoned because of excessive reclamation, because it has been unused for a long time, the land here is full of weeds, and the soil condition is not optimistic. Before deciding to plant coffee trees, the owner sampled the soil and asked other Panamanian coffee growers for advice. At that time, many growers said that such soil could grow coffee trees, but it might be very difficult. Although the advice given was not optimistic, the landowner finally bought the land. In 2008, Willem Boot bought an extremely high-altitude estate from Ricardo Koyner, the owner of Catova, and named it Finca Sophia, the town of Volcan in Panama.

In front of the street, it has been told that the higher the altitude of the coffee, the better the flavor of the coffee, while Sofia Manor is 1900-2150 meters above sea level, which is one of the highest coffee farms in Central America. From the day Sofia Manor was founded, William and his partners have been trying to explore the boundaries of the highest elevations where the world's top coffee is grown.

In 2009-2011, when Sofia began to grow coffee for the first time, all coffee trees were spared because of mold. But the landowner did not give up, and in 2011-2012 adjusted the coffee tree cultivation technology and started planting again, allowing the coffee tree to adapt to the high altitude environment.

The emperor lives up to his painstaking efforts! Under the careful care of the landowner, Sofia Manor's coffee beans began to have a bumper harvest in 2016, and won the first place in the geisha (Rose Summer Variety) washing Group title for the first time in the Best Panama (BOP) competition in 2017! After a few years, Sophia competed again in 2020, winning the champion of the washing group and the runner-up of the tanning group again. This time Qianjie Coffee comes from Sofia Manor 2022, which produces seasonal sun treatment of rose summer coffee beans.

Named after Sophia, the goddess of wisdom in ancient Greek mythology, the Logo design comes from a kind of highland pigeon (called Torcaza in Spanish) that lives in the manor. The estate is jointly owned by William and his American partner, Equator Coffee Roasters, and is day-to-day managed by local coffee farm operators in Panama.

Sophia Rose Summer Coffee has an episode in the competition. Qianjie believes that this episode makes Sophia Rose Summer Coffee more famous and more memorable. A senior US judge questioned during the discussion that the coffee with a high score of 93 + from 12 judges should be a honey-treated coffee because its complex flavor and high sweet-sour balance make people suspect that it is not the taste of the coffee itself. but the flavor brought by the treatment, but it turns out that this is a rosy summer of complete washing treatment, and all the amazing flavor comes from the plant itself. The flavors described by the judges include intense aromas of orange blossoms, peach, ripe grapes, blackcurrant, bright citrus acid, berries, bubble acidity, syrup and a lingering finish.

The coffee harvested in the champion batch of Rose Summer Water washing Group will be from March 10 to 14, 2020. After the coffee fruit is picked, the pulp of the coffee is removed and fermented for 36 hours. after cleaning, the coffee beans are put on a high bed for the first stage of drying for about 8 days, and finally the machine is used for the second stage drying until the moisture content of the coffee beans is reduced to 11.5%.

Qianjie Coffee believes that Hingfia Coffee Manor, as the highest elevation manor in Panama, has a large temperature difference between day and night, which makes the production of coffee grown here very slow. Coffee is planted at high altitude and climate, so it can show a more amazing flavor. In addition to the rose summer coffee varieties, the estate also grows Kaduai varieties, but because the estate is not very large, the main areas grow rose summer coffee varieties, so the Kaddura of Sofia Manor is only supplied to the American market. It is reported that the Kaddura coffee beans produced by the manor are also very rich and charming.

How do you bake a rose coffee bean when you get it?

In order to retain the charming aroma of rose summer coffee beans and fully show the characteristics of rose summer, it is necessary to make some efforts on baking. Rose summer is usually planted at a high altitude of more than 1500 meters, and what we get is 1700 Michael hard, high-density beans, which are full in shape, medium grain size, thick and long, and pointed at both ends. The Qianjie coffee roaster uses light roasting. Through cup test and comparison, this sun-treated coffee bean from Sofia Manor shows the dry aroma of melon and rose after grinding; after sucking, it shows orange, melon, apple juice, rose, oolong tea, high sweetness and full flavor.

Qianjie coffee roaster reminds everyone: in the process of baking, we should pay attention to: the curve of roasted summer should not be too long, otherwise the flavor will be rigid. After an explosion, the temperature rise should not be too high, the two ends of Rose summer are sharp, it is easy to have black focus, the temperature rise below 6 degrees will be better, shallow baking will reveal the aroma of tea rose.

Suggestion on brewing coffee in Qianjie

For coffee brewing, Qianjie recommends using freshly roasted coffee beans for brewing, so that you can maximize the rich flavor of coffee. The coffee beans shipped in Qianjie are all roasted within 5 days, because Qianjie is well aware that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on the flavor. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

Of course, there are some customers who need help grinding powder in front of the street, which doesn't matter, but Qianjie has to warn: if the coffee beans are ground ahead of time, there is no need to raise the beans, because in the process of transportation, the pressure caused by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor mellow, so when you receive the coffee powder, you can immediately make a cup of coffee drink. But the coffee powder needs to be brewed in time, because the coffee powder oxidizes more quickly after contact with the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will dissipate more quickly, and the flavor of the coffee is not so good. Therefore, Qianjie suggests buying whole beans, grinding and flushing now, so that we can better taste the flavor of coffee.

Parameters of Qianjie Rose Summer Coffee:

Filter cup: Hario V 60, water temperature: 90 ℃, powder content: 15g, ratio of powder to water: 1:15, degree of grinding: medium and fine grinding (Chinese standard No. 20 sieve pass rate 80%)

Panamanian Sofia Manor Rose Summer washing

Manor: Sofia Manor

Producing area: Volcan

Altitude: 1900-2150 m

Variety: rose summer seed

Treatment: washing

Flavor: bright citrus acid, berries, bubble acidity, syrup taste, lingering finish

Of course, Qianjie Coffee also has several kinds of rosy summer coffee from different producing areas, such as Pokuit Rose Summer Coffee from Panama, Deborah Rose Summer Coffee from Panama, Red Standard Rose Summer Coffee from Rose Summer Village in Ethiopia, and some rose summer beans are also very good! Such as: Colombian Flower Rose Summer Coffee, Costa Rica Milasu Rose Summer Coffee, Panamanian Flower Butterfly Rose Summer Coffee, these can drink the flavor of Rose Summer Coffee at a very affordable price! It's worth a try!

Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

For more boutique coffee beans, please add private Qianjie coffee on Wechat. WeChat account: qjcoffeex