Indian-style Malabar coffee has been favored by Europeans since the 17th century.

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Refined wind-stained coffee on rainy days ~ we'll talk about it later. Let's start with a history of coffee transmission.

Coffee became the number one drink in the world only 1600 years later, so the recorded history of coffee is only 400 years similar to that of Taiwan. It is generally recognized that Africa is the home of coffee. It originated in Ethiopia and spread to all parts of the world from the port of Mocha in Yemen. However, in order to prevent coffee from being grown in other countries, all coffee beans can only be exported after shelling. But Baimi eventually made a mistake, saying that the first person to spread coffee from the Yemen Muslim area was Baba who made a pilgrimage to Mecca around 1600 (in the 17th century). BaBa Budan hid seven germinating coffee beans in his belly and smuggled them back to his home in southwestern India, opening the history of the spread of coffee in the world. And this southwestern India is now the Malaba region (Indian Malaba).

[strong flavor of wheat and tea] India Monsooned Malabar AA | Wind-soaked beans (India Monsooned Malabar AA)

Production area: India Malabar

Raw bean treatment: wind stain treatment

Grade: AA

Flavor introduction

Aroma of wheat and straw, roasted nuts, dried wood, Nanyang spice, greasy and sticky

About Malabar wind-soaked beans

Indian-style Malabar coffee has been favored by Europeans since the 17th century. This kind of wind-stained coffee is a new flavor created inadvertently. In the 17th and 18th centuries, India shipped coffee beans to Europe by sailboat, which took six months. The raw beans were placed on the bottom of the barn, absorbing the moisture and salty taste from the sea surface. The raw beans arrived in Europe and had deteriorated. The color changed from dark green to yellowish brown of rice. The sour taste of coffee almost disappeared, but it unexpectedly developed a strong nutty and shell flavor. It tasted full of tea, with a bit of Xuanmi tea flavor. Nordic people like this kind of golden alternative coffee very much. In 1869, the opening of the Suez Canal, coupled with the advent of steamships, shortened the sailing time from India to Europe. However, customers began to complain that Indian coffee was "stale", lost its charming color and flavor, and orders plummeted, and Indian exporters began to study the solution. It was only then that it was found that the time for coffee beans to be shipped to Europe had been shortened by more than half, and the original flavor had been lost before it was ripe. Some smart people think of the salty and wet environment of the Indian sea from late May to September along the coast of Malabar in southwestern India. After several experiments, it is sure enough to produce a tawny coffee without sour taste similar to that of the past, so it is called monsoon bean, or wind-soaked bean.

Indian coffee is originally thick, low and less sour, while wind-stained coffee beans are made from sun-cured beans. All factories dealing with wind-stained coffee beans face to the west, facing the salty monsoon blowing from the southwest sea. The coffee beans are laid flat in the wind field, the windows are all open, and the wind stains to a certain extent, and then enter the bag, but because the beans will expand a lot in the process, so the coffee beans can not be filled too full, and the coffee bags should not be piled up too dense to avoid mildew and spoilage due to airtight, and from time to time to pour out the coffee beans and replace the sacks. To avoid the breeding of mold is a very time-consuming and labor-consuming project. The weathering period is about 12 to 16 weeks. After ripening, the weevil is treated with tobacco smoke to drive away the weevil. Finally, the beans were screened manually to get rid of the failed beans that did not turn golden. After three to four months of wind treatment, the volume of Malaba raw beans expands by one to two times, resulting in a decrease in weight and density.

Indian style-stained Malabar coffee beans, although the beans are fat, they are soft beans that are strong and dry. Because the coffee beans have been exposed to the moist monsoon for a long time, not only the color of the beans has turned yellow and is known as the golden Malaba, the acidity of the coffee itself has also been greatly reduced, and the taste is very special. Wind-soaked beans are drunk individually, with rich aroma of wheat and tea. For hundreds of years, it has been widely used by European coffee manufacturers to prepare mixed coffee beans, which can increase the consistency and tea feel. Make a good espresso.

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