What is Venice coffee? Introduction to the characteristic honey treatment of Costa Rican honeybee coffee

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Located in the province of Punta Renas in south-central Costa rica, SAN VITO, a small town in Golfitori, about 65 kilometers northeast, is surrounded by major mountains at 1600m above sea level. It attracted a large number of Italian immigrants to come here in the early 1950s.

Abejilla Farm has a unique coffee variety in the world-Venecia, which is in the foothills of the Venecia volcano (Volc á n PO á s) north of Costa rica. The Venecia village of San Carlos in Alajuela province was unearthed by a coffee farmer named Isidro Rodriguez, hence the name of Venecia, where it was found, a similar naming to Villa Sarchi.

The Venice seed is a special variety selected from the natural variation of Kaddura (Caturra). In addition to retaining the excellent flavor directly transmitted from the Kaddura seed, the variety screened by this variation has a slower fruit ripening, a delay of 25 to 40 days, and a better tolerance to heavy rainfall, which is also the main reason for its special retention.

Honey treatment is actually a kind of coffee bean processing method, which belongs to semi-dry and semi-wet method. Specifically, it comes from Pulped Natural in Brazil, that is, after the picked coffee fruit is peeled off, the coffee with residual pulp is dried directly with shell beans. In this way, the smell of residual pulp pectin in the drying process will be absorbed by coffee beans, and the processed coffee beans will have more fermented taste and sweetness. And the acidity of the coffee will be reduced.

Of course, Costa Rica, a traditional producer of premium Arabica coffee, has always been famous for its exquisite washing, and it was not until 2003 that a farm tried the Pulped Natural method for the first time. Because the coffee beans processed in this way have a lot of residual pectin and feel as sticky as honey, they are locally known as "honey process" (Spanish Cafe Miel), or "honey treatment"-this is the source of "honey treatment".

Country: Costa Rica

Production area: San Vito

Producer: La Abejilla

Variety: Variedad Venecia

Altitude: 1400m

Treatment: honey treatment

Flavor features: almonds, tea, fruit sweetness, cherry, blackcurrant, caramel, cream.

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