Flesh tanning is the idea of solarization and water washing, and its idea is to use less water than washing.

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Pulp means "flesh". Whether from the point of view of the original meaning or from the point of view of the way it is handled, Pulped Natural should be translated into "flesh solarization". Many people confuse the definitions of "pulp solarization Pulped Natural", "semi-washed Semi-Washed", "wet planing Giling Basah", "honey treatment Honey/Miel" and so on. We will talk about the differences between these definitions in the next few articles. Today we will talk about pulp solarization.

Flesh tanning is a hybrid version of solarization and washing. The idea is to use less water than the water washing method to produce coffee with a cleaner flavor and a thicker taste than the sun washing method, which can be said to be a kind of water washing and sun washing middle way, which is why people tend to mistakenly call it "semi-washing".

Although Costa Rica has won the recognition of coffee gluttons through honey-treated coffee beans, it is also closely related to Costa Rica's superior geographical and climatic conditions, and the selection of Arabica varieties of coffee. Costa Rica's high-quality coffee beans are called "very hard beans" (SHB), and the quality of hard beans (HB) and slightly hard beans (SH) decline in turn, and this is also the way it is graded. Extremely hard beans grow at an altitude of more than 1500 meters, and altitude always represents the quality of coffee, and high altitude means better quality. In addition, due to the high altitude drop caused by sufficient rainfall, is very beneficial to the growth of coffee trees; and high altitude night temperature is low, resulting in slow growth of trees, so that coffee fruit better absorb more nutrients, coffee flavor is also richer.

Its three most famous producing areas are Tarasu, south of the Costa Rican capital SanJose, as well as the producing areas of the Central Valley and the western valley. Among them, there are many excellent independent estates, all of which are carefully cultivating more fine washing and honey-treated coffee beans.

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