How's the Costa Rican coffee? Introduction of Carnett Manor in Costa Rica

In the past, farmers in Costa Rica sold coffee berries to large processing plants, but now they invest in setting up micro-processing plants that use various treatments (sun and honey treatments) to produce small batches of raw beans, which are often heard as "micro batches" and then sold to high-quality international buyers.

Traditional mode of coffee production

In the past, coffee producers in Costa Rica were mainly family farms, covering an area of about 5 to 10 hectares, of which one hectare could produce 1000 kilograms of raw beans, but the coffee berries were sold directly to large wet treatment plants (wet-mill), and large wet treatment plants were made into shell beans, which were treated together with five to six metric tons of beans at a time, resulting in little difference in flavor. That is, the commercial coffee beans we usually drink.

However, at the end of the 20th century, international coffee prices began to collapse, and the price of commercial coffee could not support farmers' costs, causing farmers to suffer heavy losses. as a result, farmers began to rethink other ways out, so micro-processing plants were born.

Micro-processing revolution

The so-called micro-treatment is actually a small amount of coffee berries handled by coffee farmers themselves. Since 2000, Costa Rican farmers have bought dry washing systems, a set of about $25000 to $30, 000, which is a large investment.

As a result, each producing area began to have its own unique flavor of manor coffee beans, and participate in well-known coffee competitions (such as: COE), so that more international third wave of boutique coffee buyers can access the raw beans of these estates. Among them, the Treasure Manor is appreciated by Blue bottle Coffee, which is the best example!

Because of the serious water pollution problem in Costa Rica, most of them are treated by mechanical washing, but the treasure manor only specializes in honey treatment, and it is still black honey treatment, retaining all the sticky pulp layer, which is a high degree of honey treatment! (and try passion honey treatment)

Carnett Manor Canet is located at the highest altitude where Tarrazu Tarazu Coffee is grown in Costa Rica. Carnett is the name of a small farm in this field. Finca Canet is a small 5-hectare estate in the town of San Marcos in Tarrazu, owned by three brothers, the Robles brothers Leo and Elianand Melvin, who have worked together for more than 10 years and share a small water treatment plant (Beneficio).

More than three generations of the Montero family have produced coffee in the charming mountains of Tarrazu, Costa Rica. Today, Carlos and his whole family are involved in the farm in Cane, the name of a small farm called Don Eli. Carlos and his family are deeply involved in Dowie Coffee Farm and miniature mills. With the support of his family, Carlos managed farming and milling. He is in different small farms, but also in the process of picking dates and separation.

The locals choose well-ripe cherries. This area is the most densely planted area of Costa Rican fruit, the main manor is to grow passion fruit, the amount of coffee is quite rare, there is only one specific area to grow coffee, take special care, only pick ripe red cherry fruit. The unique variety in the manor: yellow Catuai.