What is the difference between the treatment of black honey, red honey and yellow honey? What's the difference in flavor?

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When it comes to coffee treatment, in addition to washing and sun, there is also a very common treatment method-honey treatment, which is a treatment method between washing and sun, which is very common in Costa Rica. And honey processing is divided into white honey, yellow honey, red honey, black honey and so on, so what is the difference between these honey processing?

| honey treatment

Brazil's method of peeling and sunning spread to Central American countries such as Costa Rica and El Salvador, where it was modified and called honey treatment.

Honey treatment is the process of making raw beans with mucous membranes dried in the sun. After removing the outer pulp of coffee beans, there will be a layer of sticky gelatinous matter, which will be washed away with water in the traditional washing method, but because of the water resource limitation of some high-altitude producing areas, this method of drying directly with pectin was born.

According to the thickness of pectin removal, the length of sun exposure (or drying thickness), the frequency of turning during drying, etc., honey treatment is divided into black honey, red honey, orange honey, yellow honey and white honey.

According to the thickness of pectin removal:

Black honey: almost no pectin removal, so the longest drying time, need to last more than 14 days, in order to avoid drying too fast, will use a cover to block too strong sunlight, so that sugar conversion more fully.

Red honey: remove 25% pectin (specific practices vary from manor to manor), sun lasts for about 12 days, and shade may be used during the process

Yellow honey: remove 40% pectin, accept the most light drying, lasting about 8 days.

Some producing areas and estates are distinguished according to the thickness of coffee beans and the number of times they are turned, such as yellow honey and white honey, both of which retain 20-30% pectin:

Yellow honey: thick layer drying, turning times less, drying time;

White honey: thin layer drying, turning times, drying time is short.

| contrast

Xiao Bian has only black honey, red honey and yellow honey on hand, so Xiao Bian plans to compare what is different about these three beans today?

| green bean contrast

From the color point of view, black honey beans due to the retention of pectin more, so the color will be more obvious uneven, smell is more intense fermentation incense and sydney fragrance;

The yellow honey treated beans because of the retention of relatively little pectin, so it looks more uniform yellow-green, smell of grass and black rice;

Red honey is in the middle, smelling with a faint aroma of fermentation and grass.

| baking contrast

[Yellow Honey]

Yellowing point 5:30 seconds, first explosion starts at 8:46 seconds, temperature is 184, first explosion develops at 2:30 seconds, temperature is 196 degrees.

Agrton Bean Color is 66.9 (top), Agrton Pink is 82.4 (bottom), and Roast Delta is 15.5.

[Red Honey]

Yellowing point 5:10 seconds, first explosion starts at 8:40 seconds, temperature is 185, first explosion develops at 2:35 seconds, temperature is 197 degrees.

Agrton Bean Color is 63.6 (top), Agrton Pink is 75.9 (bottom), and Roast Delta is 12.3.

[Black Honey]

Yellowing point 5:05 seconds, first explosion starts at 8:50 seconds, temperature is 183.6, first explosion develops 2 minutes, temperature is 195.8 degrees.

Agrton Bean Color is 76.7 (top), Agrton Pink is 90.1 (bottom), and Roast Delta is 13.4.

| Flavor contrast

After baking for 8 hours, cup test, weigh 11.3 grams of powder, grind BG 5B (Chinese standard No.20 sieve pass rate 75%), water temperature is 94℃, pour 200ml of water, break the slag after 4 minutes, you can cup test ~

[Yellow Honey] Smells light fermented fruit, citrus, cocoa, nuts, honey and caramel flavors when sipped. The overall flavor is lighter.

[Red Honey] Smells like a rich fermented red wine, with pineapple, orange, nectarine, raisin, cream, raisin and maple syrup flavors when sipped.

[Black Honey] Smells rich jackfruit, raisins and fermented wine, with plum, citrus, raisins, caramel and spice flavors when sipped.

| summary

Compared with the beans treated with three kinds of honey, the beans treated with [black honey] had a strong fermentation fragrance, and the aroma would be richer. The aroma of the beans treated with [red honey] would be slightly weaker, while the aroma of the beans treated with [yellow honey] would be lighter.

In terms of flavor, the sour and sweet feeling of [black honey] treatment is obvious, with some juice feeling;[red honey] treatment is more balanced, with obvious grape flavor;[yellow honey] treatment is relatively clean, fermentation flavor is not heavy, inclined to citrus flavor.

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