Encyclopedia of Coffee talking about individual Coffee

Today, I casually typed "single coffee" on Baidu, and the result came out as follows:

Individual coffee is made from a single coffee bean produced in the country of origin and is a pure coffee without milk or sugar when drinking. Have strong characteristics, special taste: or fresh and soft, or mellow smooth; the cost is higher, so the price is more expensive.

Such as the famous Blue Mountain Coffee, Brazilian Coffee, Italian Coffee, Colombian Coffee. They are all individual products named after the origin of coffee beans.

Huh? Italian Coffee? As we all know: Italy does not produce coffee beans-there is not a coffee field in the whole of Europe, including Italy.

Baidu is like this, it can be seen that there is still a big lack of understanding of individual coffee among ordinary consumers.

After traveling in the world of individual coffee for two years, I still feel like I'm just standing on a Brazilian farm, overlooking the ripe coffee fruit of Uncle Juan Vardi's donkey 2000 meters above sea level in the Colombian Andes. The world of individual coffee is too big, and I know too little, so I can only talk about my opinion, at least hope to correct some friends''white humor' of Italian coffee as a single product.

Individual coffee refers to coffee extracted from a single variety of beans produced in the country of origin-of course, the single variety of coffee here has its own unique flavor characteristics according to the geographical conditions of production, processing methods and so on.

On the nomenclature of individual coffee:

With the development of boutique coffee and the improvement of people's demand for coffee taste, the naming of individual coffee has experienced from national naming to single farm naming.

Named after the country:

In the early days, according to the name of the coffee exporting country, for some beans of average quality, they were only given the name of the country:

Such as Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Yemen and so on.

With the increasing demand for coffee and the development of coffee production and output, some special names have emerged on the basis of national names, such as:

Mocha: in the early days, coffee exported from Arabia to Europe started from the port of Mocha, so it was called mocha. Because it was mainly produced in Yemen and Ethiopia, it was divided into Yemeni mocha and Ethiopian mocha.

Brazilian santos: a major port for the early export of Brazilian coffee, coffee produced in the interior of Brazil, and all exports through this port are known as "Sandos".

Sanani, Yemen: Sanani is the name of a market near the Yemeni capital Sana'a, so named because coffee beans produced nearby are shipped here for acquisition.

Java, Indonesia: the early coffee from the Indonesian island of Java was very popular in the 18th century.

With the classification of coffee beans in raw bean trade, because different countries adopt different standards in classification, the naming of individual coffee has given rise to many new methods, such as:

Kenya: eight grades from AA++,AA+,AB to PB according to bean size

Ethiopia: according to the number of defective beans divided into grade1 to grade8,1 to 4 for export, 5 to 8 can only be used for domestic consumption.

Colombia: divided into supremo Columbia Super Class according to bean size, excelso Colombia excellent

According to the altitude of the bean production place in Guatemala:

-SHB (Strictly Hard Bean)

-Hard Bean

-Semi Hard Bean

-Extra Prime Washed

-Prime Washed

-Good Washd

Its neighbor El Salvador is also based on altitude, but the name has changed:

SHG (STRICTLY HIGH GROWN), HG (HIGH GROWN), CS (Central Standard)

It is worth mentioning that many countries adopt the classification standard of the American Fine Coffee Association, which is divided into NY2,NY3,NY4,NY5 according to the number of defective beans. Note that there is no NY1 grade here.

Special naming:

Jamaica Blue Mountain: produced in a mountain called Blue Mountain in Jamaica, specifically divided into Blue Mountain No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, as well as Alpine selection, Jamaica Special selection, etc.

High Qualities

-Blue Mountain No. 1: 17018 screen

-Blue Mountain No. 2: 16: 17 screen

-Blue Mountain No. 3: 15~16screen

-Blue Mountain Peaberry: 1200m

▶ Low Qualities

-Blue Mountain Triage: 15: 18 screen

-High Mountain: 17018 screen

-Jamaica Prime: 16018 screen

-Jamaica Select: 15: 18 screen

Civet Coffee (luwaka):

It is a kind of coffee from Sumatra. Every time the coffee fruit is ripe, a local civet called luwaka selects the best fruit. Farmers choose coffee beans from their feces and process them with a unique aroma. In view of its uniqueness, it has surpassed the Blue Mountains to become the most expensive coffee.

Malago Day, Mexico:

Maragraphy is a giant bean with up to 20screen, also known as elephant beans, which was first found in maragraphy County, Brazil, while the introduction of this variety in Mexico gave better play to its taste and quality.

Indian monsoon coffee (Malaba): coffee beans that are dried by a special monsoon to produce a special sea breeze.

In addition to the above according to the grade, origin and some special names, it is worth mentioning that with the development of fine coffee, people's requirements for a lot of coffee not only lie in the origin and grade, the better the fine coffee, the more detailed the origin mark. specific to the name of the farm and manor And some excellent coffee farm owners also in order to maintain the superiority of their beans in the export do not mix with other farms, separate with their own farm name, resulting in a single farm name (single farm). For example, Ilgazafi Farm in Sidamo region of Ethiopia, Santa Ana Farm in Costa Rica, and so on, while the cup of excellence Coffee Manor Bean Competition in recent years has promoted the development of single farm and manor beans. The participating manors are usually small and medium-sized manors, whose coffee has been carefully cultivated and processed, and the excellent manor beans that stand out through the competition will find good buyers and improve the popularity of beans. Improve the enthusiasm of the landowner.