What is round bean coffee (PB)? How should round bean coffee be selected? Are round beans delicious?

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What is round bean coffee (PB)?

Coffee is a kind of fruit, and the outer layer of coffee fruit has pulp (pectin layer), and the middle is usually composed of two seeds facing each other (just like the fruit we usually eat). The plane of the two seeds faces inward, and the round face faces the outer pulp. The round bean is a hereditary malformation. there is only one seed instead of two seeds in the fruit, which has no plane and has round faces on both sides.

Why are there round beans?

No one is sure, and so far there is not enough scientific research to explain the origin of round beans, and 5-10% of the seeds in the coffee fruit of each coffee tree are round beans.

How to screen out round beans?

Round beans can be found in every kind of coffee, or in any coffee-producing country. Coffee round beans are due to the fact that they can be distinguished and screened only by hand-picked work in the coffee processing process.

Round beans are often found in Tanzania, Kenya and Brazil because these countries have special instruments and systems for screening round beans.

What's so special about round beans?

This part is controversial, some people think that the flavor of round beans is better, compared with the same batch of normal beans, the flavor of round beans is slightly brighter and less mellow. However, this has never been proved. Making round beans is like making other ordinary beans, and when you enjoy coffee made from round beans, you must attribute the taste of the coffee to these selected special beans.

Round beans are usually divided into a separate grade, which is what we call PB. The size of round beans is generally smaller than flat beans, for the classification of round beans, there is a set of sieve size standards, generally using 8-12 screen to grade round beans. As the output of round beans is less, more manpower will be spent on picking in the screening process, and the labor cost has increased, so the price of round beans will be relatively higher. Is it because of price factors and psychological factors that people will give a higher evaluation of round beans? Let's keep looking.