Costa Rican musicians Series Coffee beans Beethoven Story Beethoven Coffee Taste characteristics

If music and coffee are a perfect match, you can't imagine naming coffee after music. As a regular drink in people's daily life, coffee has developed rapidly in recent years, and the development of fine coffee has greatly promoted the development of the industry behind coffee, but also pay more attention to the post-processing of coffee! The coffee I want to share today is Beethoven from the Costa Rican musician series coffee beans, yes, the coffee named by the musician! Beethoven is known as Lesheng and the king of symphonies. Beethoven, who despises dignitaries, is a coffee addict. He is said to count coffee beans every morning to relieve boredom and count 60 beans before he can make another cup of coffee that he is satisfied with.

Briefly introduce the producing areas, varieties and treatments of Beethoven coffee.

Among the many excellent producing areas in Costa Rica, there is a famous producing area that stands out-Tarazu (Tarrazu), also known as Tarasu. Tarazhu is very famous in the world of boutique coffee and is one of the major coffee producing areas in the world.

Tarasu is located in the fertile volcanic region of Central America, which has a humid climate and fertile volcanic soil, abundant rainfall throughout the year, high altitude, and dense forest natural shade, providing a unique growth environment for coffee growth. Nearly 95% of the coffee beans produced by Tarazu Mountain belong to extremely hard beans (SHB), which generally grow at an altitude of more than 1500 meters.

[Carnett Manor] is located at the highest altitude in the Tarazu producing area and is the densest fruit-growing area in Costa Rica. Carnett Manor is mainly to grow passion fruit, the amount of coffee is very rare, only a specific area to grow coffee, take special care.

[Yellow Catuai; Catuai Amarillo] (Yellow Catuai; Catuai Amarillo) comes from a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Kaddura, and was first bred by the Brazilian Institute of Agricultural Research in Contina (Instituto Agronomico de Campinas) in 1949.

Beethoven's bean is different from other [musician series coffee bean treatment]. Beethoven uses the water washing method. After harvest, Beethoven will go through a screening procedure to pick out the immature or overripe beans again, then remove the pulp, remove the mucus on the beans with a centrifugal washing machine, to avoid fermentation, then wash them with clean water, and finally dry them on a sunshaded viaduct for 12-14 days. Keep turning to achieve uniform drying, washed beans, taste relatively clean and bright.

[front Street Coffee: Carnett Manor musicians Series Coffee Beethoven]

Producing area: Tarazhu

Manor: Carnett Manor

Variety: Huang Kaduai

Altitude: 1900m

Grade: very hard bean SHB

Treatment method: washing treatment method

[suggestion on brewing coffee in Qianjie]

Filter cup: Hario V60

Water temperature: 90 ℃

Powder / water ratio: 1:15

Degree of grinding: medium fine grinding No. 20 standard screen 82% overscreening rate (Ek43s scale 9.5)

[Qianjie coffee brewing technique]

Staged extraction: steaming with 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, small water injection to 125 grams in a circle, continuous water injection to 225 grams when the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed, and removing the filter cup when the water level is about to expose the powder bed, the extraction time is 2 minutes.

[flavor description] the overall taste is clean and full-bodied, with strong berries and citrus acidity that tastes like a cup of juicy fruit-flavored coffee.

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