What's so special about Antigua Coffee in Guatemala? Guatemala Coffee Story

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La Flor del Cafe literally means "flower of coffee" and comes from the high altitude area in the heart of Antigua volcanic region, especially La Flor del Cafe, which is famous by Costa Rica as "La Minita". La Minita provides the highest standards of cultivation and processing technology in the industry, sends personnel directly to Guatemala to participate in quality control, and entrusts the largest and most equipped Bastos mill in Antigua to perform high standards of post-harvest processing, so it is not surprising that this bean has an outstanding performance!

When grinding, it will bloom the unique flower fragrance of high-altitude excellent coffee, and the sweet fragrance of full fruit. When sipping the mouth, the sweet fragrance of citrus and mulberry fruit tea will be put in the mouth, which is even better than the beans of Huehuetenango area famous for fruit fragrance! Light roast shows bright and clean fruit acids, floral aromas similar to Yirgacheffe and red wine finish, with a very light smoke flavor. High complexity, moderate thinness of taste (body). The flavor is very different from the usual Antigua volcanic coffee. It is difficult to find similar premium Antigua coffee beans on the fine coffee market with such strong floral flavor and refreshing and non-sticky taste. The technical support provided by La Minita Estate is indispensable!

Flor del Cafe is a brand of beans belonging to the Laminita Group, produced by Las Pastores beneficio, a well-known processing plant in Antigua.

This year (2007), the label La Minita was put on the sack to declare sovereignty, and it indicated that it was a bean under the group. At least, the processing and quality control of raw beans were definitely the best choice. The rest could only pray that the microclimate of that year would help a lot.

Antigua is the most famous of Guatemala's seven major producing areas, mainly because coffee is grown at volcanic altitudes and is not affected by the sea breeze or the high humidity of the Great Lakes region. Antigua's unique micro-geography forms her unique flavor:

(1)Multifunctional Volcanic Fertile Soil: There are three volcanoes in Antigua, Acatenango. Fuego-is an active volcano, which has the ability to bring fertile fire soil to Antigua coffee area, and there is also a unique volcanic pumice, which is the cooling material after volcanic magma is ejected. It has porous and insulating properties, which is very suitable for moisturizing the soil, because Antigua is the 7 major producing areas with the least rainfall. Coffee growth requires sufficient moisture. Volcanic pumice here moisturizes, making up for the lack of rainfall, while coffee berries grow with a unique flavor.

(2)High density of shade trees: In addition to shade, it can also prevent frost damage and form a unique microclimate. In the Antica area, due to the cold nights, frost damage will occur occasionally between December and February. At this time, high density of shade trees will play an effective role in preventing coffee from frosting. At the same time, the groundwater level in the Antica area is not deep. These shade trees easily absorb water and form a microclimate suitable for plant growth with the surrounding coffee trees.

(3)Severe temperature difference between day and night: helps coffee berry sweetness and unique flavor development greatly.

(4)High altitude: coffee trees grown at high altitudes, the beans are hard, and the coffee aroma grown is higher and the flavor is more prominent.

The varieties of Guatemala flower god are mainly bourbon, cadura and caduai. Bourbon and iron pica are juxtaposed as ancient coffee varieties with excellent quality. The bean appearance is smaller and more round than iron pica.

Kadura tastes sour with lemon or citrus, and is not as sweet as iron and bourbon, because the sweetness of kadura depends on the number and dosage of fertilizer applied by the grower. It has high productivity, but it must be continuously fertilized and pruned to maintain productivity, so the tree is short and branched. Although production capacity has increased, production is still limited due to the high cost of care due to the harvest period of 2 years.

Las Pastores This processing plant, brand belonging to the Laminita Group, under the control of quality control personnel green beans and cup testing, establish a set of cherry fruit from procurement to washing, after the sun and drying of strict procedures, of course, also in accordance with Laminita famous green beans strict control selection procedures to operate! La Minita finally enjoys a certain reputation under the quality control requirements and supervision.

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Flower God coffee beans round body, green with yellow, better uniformity, moderate moisture content. The baking goal is medium baking, retaining the bright acidity on the one hand to show floral and fruity aromas on the other hand to enhance richness and balance.

In the first batch of baking, the lower bean temperature is relatively high, the temperature of the beans is 200 degrees, and the fire is relatively large. In the baking process, it was found that the altitude of this bean was higher and the bean quality was harder. In order to retain more acid aroma, the baking method of raising temperature and early explosion was adopted. The fire power was adjusted carefully before the beans entered the yellowing point, dehydration was completed and the first explosion was completed, so as to avoid the surface burn of the beans, and 1 minute and 50 seconds after the first explosion was selected to shorten the caramelization reaction time and retain more fragrance of flowers and fruits.

This Guatemalan flower god washed citrus acid is obvious, the juice is sour, rich in floral fragrance, pleasant sweetness, medium alcohol, slight caramel and smoky taste in the latter part, overall pure, mild, smooth texture, balanced and lively.