Are there any good brands of coffee beans in Colombia? How do you drink Colombian coffee?

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It is often said that "high-quality South American coffee looks like Central America," meaning that Central American coffee is superior to South America, which mainly produces commercial coffee, in terms of beans, soil, and even treatment.

Volcanic soil + family management

Colombia is located in the northwest of the South American continent, bordering Central America and Panama. From the aerial view, it looks like it has been scratched by a cat on the west side, leaving three vertical paw marks from north to south. The country's famous producing areas are scattered in these fertile volcanic soil in the Andes (Cordillera).

It is said that coffee was introduced by missionaries from Venezuela in 1730 and was grown in the southeast of the country. Later, due to civil war and political reasons, it gradually moved to the western mountainous areas. In an ideal environment of high height and volcanic soil, Colombian coffee has been respected by high-end consumers in the United States and Japan since the 1940s. In addition to the inherent conditions, there is another main reason why Colombian coffee is better than Brazil: family management. They do not have heavy machinery to harvest and irrigate, nor do they have spare money to hire workers. All coffee fruits are not picked by hand until they are ripe. They cherish the piece of land they live in, from choosing fertilizer to reclamation will be enough, so there is less land fatigue. Apart from coffee, they will also grow other crops to eat or earn extra money. All these help to maintain the ecological environment.

Colombia produces about 12% of the world's second-largest coffee beans, although the output is not as good as that of Brazil, but the coffee beans are of good quality and mostly belong to high altitude areas. After wet processing, the coffee beans are mellow and thick, sweet and sour, and strong. There is a peculiar sweet potato skin flavor, which is a good taste in coffee. It is often used to increase the aroma of other coffees. Due to its rich aroma, it is very suitable for both individual drinks and combinations.

The highest grade product is SUPREMO, which has the average taste of sweet, bitter and sour in acid. The three main varieties produced in the Central Mountains of central Colombia have a rich, delicate taste with an average rich sour taste.

Colombia is the standard bean of coffee, its taste is the average of all kinds of coffee, so the general coffee to distinguish between sweet, bitter, spicy and mellow, are compared with Colombia as the standard.

Colombia is collecting water to wash Arabica coffee beans. It has a balanced flavor, proper acidity, good taste and relatively low baking difficulty.

Here are some Colombian coffee beans:

1. St. Augustine, Colombia

This is a good coffee grown at high altitude (about 1700 meters above sea level) and 100% Tibica old trees. The planting process completely follows the traditional Colombian way, pure water washing and drying in the natural sun, without the use of electric drying equipment, making the flavor clean, mellow, light baked with elegant aroma similar to Caribbean beans, very soft and balanced. The baking tolerance is large. Very shallow baking to medium-deep baking all show different styles.

two。 Emerald Mountain of Colombia

This is a high-end Colombian coffee famous in Japan, with a very soft and palatable flavor, with a refreshing, clean grass aroma (light roasting) and a taste similar to flower and fruit tea (medium roasting). Medium and shallow baking degree is fresh and clean, the fruit acid is obvious, but the taste is medium.

3. Columbia Snow Peak

This is a famous coffee that is extremely rare and carefully processed using a traditional manual grinding process, and is often considered to be one of the best coffee produced in Colombia in the boutique coffee industry. The flavor is very quiet and balanced.

It has good fruit aroma, beautiful acidity under light baking, thick palate under medium and deep baking and a charming chocolate finish. Very shallow roasting degree is fresh and clean, the fruit acidity is obvious, but the taste is weak, medium-deep roasting degree can show the thickest taste and sweetness of this coffee.

As Colombian coffee beans and Blue Mountain coffee beans, both belong to Mild coffee beans, although it should be the origin of the relationship, but good Colombian coffee, not inferior Blue Mountain coffee.