What's so special about honey treatment? What is the difference between yellow honey, red honey and black honey?

What's so special about honey treatment?

Juxtaposed with the two traditional treatment methods, water washing and sun treatment, honey treatment has become a unique method in coffee treatment. The taste difference between honey treatment and water washing treatment: higher sweetness, higher sugar content and higher alcohol thickness (under the premise of the same baking degree)

Honey treatment keeps the coffee clean after washing, and although the brightness of the coffee decreases, it increases the sweetness and caramel taste. According to the different degree of honey treatment, honey-treated coffee can be divided into yellow honey treatment, red honey treatment and black honey treatment.

Small classification of honey treatment

According to NordicApproch, Seattle Coffee and Origin Coffee, the raw bean companies run by the big shot Tim, it can be summed up:

Yellow honey: retain about 60% of the pectin; drying method requires the most direct heat absorption, accept the most light drying, lasting about 8 days to achieve a stable water content.

Red honey: retain about 75% of the pectin; dry longer than yellow honey, and reduce the time of direct sunlight exposure, even in shading sheds, lasting about 12 days.

Black honey: retain close to 80% pectin; dry for the longest time, lasting at least 2 weeks, with a cover to avoid too strong sunlight, prevent drying too fast, and make sugar conversion more fully.

The delicate fermented aromas of sun beans Biloya and Aricha are amazing.

The main difference between [white honey] treatment and [yellow honey] treatment is "the distinction of drying thickness", which determines the drying speed and drying uniformity, and then affects the sweetness and fermentation degree of coffee.

Half-sun which is very close to honey treatment.

Brazilian coffee fields are endless and are mostly harvested mechanically in order to meet the economic benefits. When 75% of the coffee fruit in the coffee garden turns red, mechanical harvesting begins, followed by the same pre-washing operation, which is moved into the sink to remove floating beans, sift out sunken beans, and then use a large pulp screening machine to dig out the pulp and remove the pods covered with pectin.