How does the Ethiopian Sidamo sun taste good? What is solarization?

What is the flavor of the sun?

Sun flavor is usually a vague term, which is not only the elegant fragrance of the people who like it, but also the strange taste of the people who don't like it. Even if he is a coffee glutton, he can conclude that the coffee beans are made from the sun, but he will hesitate to say what the 'sun flavor' is.

Sun flavor is obtained from the process of sun treatment. In the process of turning a coffee fruit (Cherry) into a coffee raw bean (Green Bean), two different methods are commonly used: washing and tanning. Because the sun method is to put the coffee fruit there to dry, the beans have a more complete natural mellow flavor, and the special aroma caused by fermentation. This special aroma is to pretend to force the mouth of the sun flavor, need to be carefully experienced!

What is tanning treatment?

Sun exposure is also a very "cheap", very "simple", and relatively "inferior" treatment. Remember when we talked about water washing that it is generally considered to be a better treatment than the sun treatment? Solarization doesn't need too many machines, let alone water. The vast majority of commercial-grade coffee beans in the world market are sun-dried beans, often with serious flavor defects, such as soil, onion and fermented flavor. The purchase price of sun-dried beans is often very low, so coffee farmers have no incentive to improve their sun exposure, and coffee farmers in some areas even put their coffee fruits directly on the soil to dry. Therefore, generally speaking, the quality of sun-cured coffee beans is low, the flavor is poor, and there are many broken grains. But as a major contributor to the coffee industry, it is more important than any other treatment.

Product name: Sidamo Sidamo

Producing area: Sidamo, Ethiopia, Africa

Ethiopia is a very important coffee exporter in the world, with major producing areas such as Sidamo, Yegashifi, Kochel, Hara, Gima and so on. Sidamo is the main producing area of boutique beans, and the coffee beans are famous for their excellent fruit characteristics and delicate and elegant flavor. Yega Xuefei, as we all know, is a small city belonging to Sidamo, and the ancient saying means "wetland".

Altitude: 1950 m

Variety: Heirloom

Treatment: insolation

Baking degree: light baking

Sidamo hands-on advice:

Utensils: V60 filter cup

Degree of grinding: medium and fine grinding

Gouache ratio: 1:16

Water temperature: 88muri 90 °C

Time: 130s

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