Yejashaffe is a small town. Yega Chuefei grows coffee beans, which are washed with water.

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Yejashaffe is a small town with an elevation of 1700 Murray 2100 meters above sea level. It is also synonymous with Ethiopian boutique beans. It has been a wetland since ancient times, and the ancient saying [yirga] means "settle down], and [cheffe] means [wetland], so [Yega Xuefen] means [let us settle down in this wetland].

Yejia snow caffeine is washed with water, but there are also a small number of excellent beans engraved in the sun to enhance the charming fruit aroma and mellow thickness.

Coffee bean washing method is to wash two different kinds of soluble substances through water at the same time, one of which can be dissolved in water, the other can not be dissolved, and then the water layer is removed by liquid separation.

It is one of the coffee producing areas with the highest average elevation in Ethiopia.

Coffee trees are mostly planted in farmers' own backyard or mixed with other crops in the field, the yield per household is not much, it is a typical rural coffee. These mountain villages are foggy, like spring all year round, with a gentle breeze in summer, cool but not hot, rain but not damp, and no cold damage in winter, giving birth to a unique flavor of citrus and flowers.

The so-called 'Yejia Snow Flavor' refers to the strong aromas of jasmine, lemon, peach, almond and tea.

The author's tasting experience has only one sentence: coffee entrance, flowers in full bloom! Just like a flower touches the comfort of taste buds and olfactory cells in the nasal cavity. In addition to the fragrance of the flowers, the delicate mellow thickness (body) is like a silk massage in the mouth.

Washing procedure

1, select beans

Put the harvested fruit in a water tank and soak for about 24 hours. At this time, ripe fruit will sink, while immature and overripe fruit will float up and can be removed.

2. Remove the pulp

Use a machine to remove the peel and pulp, leaving only coffee beans wrapped in endocarp. At this time, there is a layer of mucous membrane on the outside of the beans, and the process of washing is to wash this layer of mucous membrane.

3, hair alcohol

The adhesion of the mucous membrane is very strong and is not easy to remove. It must be placed in the slot for about 18-36 hours to make it alcohol and decompose the mucous membrane. There are two methods of fermentation, namely wet hair alcohol and dry hair alcohol, as the name implies, the former adds water, the latter does not add water. In the process of producing alcohol, the seeds and internal pulp will produce special changes, which is one of the steps that most affect the flavor of coffee. Some farms add hot water or alkanolins to speed up the production of alcohol, which has a negative impact on quality and is not popular with selected coffee lovers.

4, washing

Farms that use the washing method must build washing ponds and be able to introduce an endless supply of running water. During the treatment, the finished beans are put into the pool and passed back and forth, using the friction of beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean.

5, dry

After washing, at this time, the coffee beans are still wrapped in the pericarp with a moisture content of 50%. They must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12%, otherwise they will continue to be mellow, moldy and rotten. The better treatment is to use sunlight to dry, although it will take 1-3 weeks, but the flavor is very good and very popular. In addition, machine drying is used in some places, which greatly shortens the processing time and makes the flavor not as good as that of sun-dried coffee.

6, shelling

The dried beans can be stored in a warehouse or handed over to the factory for shelling to remove endocarp and silver film.

7, selection and grading

Like tanning hair, washed coffee has a process of picking and grading, which is used to remove defective beans and ensure better quality, which is then handed over to exporters to sell around the world.

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