Why coffee beans are rich in sun flavor and water-washed coffee beans are cleaner? Is it sour in washed coffee?

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Sun and water-washed coffee beans have their own advantages and disadvantages in processing. Sun processing is simple, as long as the coffee fruit is dried by the sun, but it is limited by the weather because it is very dependent on the big sun for several consecutive worship. If it rains for a few days, it may reimburse the whole batch of coffee fruits, so the price of good sun beans remains high in the auction market of coffee beans. Washed coffee beans also have processing restrictions, and they may not be able to use water washing in some countries with lack of water or poor water quality.

Honey treatment method

Honey treatment is popular in Costa Rica and belongs to the semi-washing method, but unlike the water washing method, the fermentation time is not long, so there are some pectin layers on the coffee beans, which will form the color of beeswax (amber spots) after drying, so it is called honey treatment, which will give the coffee more flavor.

Why coffee beans are rich in sun flavor and water-washed coffee beans are cleaner?

You may have heard a saying: beans in the sun are rich in flavor, and coffee beans washed in water are cleaner and sour.

Is that true?

In fact, we can see some clues from the way the coffee beans are handled.

Today, let's imagine the flavor of coffee from the process.

So what kind of secret flavor will there be between tanning and washing?

To put it simply, the sun is used to dry the coffee cherries with pulp and peel, so it is called Nature in English.

However, this nature method seems easy, but it is not simple. He has also made some efforts to improve.

The way to deal with the commercial sun is to spread a piece of plastic cloth on the ground and put the coffee beans directly on it.

However, the problem lies in the transfer of geothermal heat and the unstable heat convection of coffee cherries, which may cause excessive heating or uneven fermentation if not stirred frequently.

(you can imagine that the beans on the top are very comfortable in the sun, and the beans stuffed at the bottom may smell strange.)

In addition, there are many bad bacteria and pollution on the ground, which will also destroy the flavor of coffee beans.

So there are a lot of traditional solarization. The flavor of early good beans will not be treated by sunlight, because people have a poor impression and the price is not high.

In the washing method, the harvested coffee cherries are peeled and pulped, and the remaining seeds and a layer of residual mucous membrane are thrown into the sink and fermented with water. The whole fermentation time is only about 24-30 hours.

The quality of the water washing method is obviously better than that of the sun tanning method. In the process of washing treatment, the defective beans floating on the water surface can be easily removed, and the flavor is not easy to appear.

Also because the fermentation time is short, the beans are naked and washed in the sink, so the washing method will show a clean and flawless taste.