How do you make Cuban coffee? how do you drink Cuban coffee?

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Cuba, located in the Caribbean, is an island country under the rule of communist ​​, and its capital is Havana. Cuba is famous not only for its snow-white beaches and cigar tobacco, but also for its excellent coffee. Cuba has a long history of growing coffee, and Jos é Antonio Gelabert introduced the first coffee factory to Cuba in 1748. In 1791, when slavery was abolished during the Haitian revolution, French colonists fled to Cuba, bringing better methods of coffee production to Cuba. Before the era of Castro, Cuba's coffee industry boomed, and coffee beans were once Cuba's number one export, with more "sugar" than life's necessities. In the mid-1950s, Cuba exported more than 20000 metric tons (22046 short tons) of coffee beans a year, all of which were sold at high prices, with most of the coffee exported to Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany. In the late 19th century, the price of local coffee plummeted because of government policies and the chaos of the international political situation, so farmers turned to plant other crops.

In Cuba, most of the coffee beans are picked by hand. Coffee beans are picked about every half a month during the ripening period. During or after picking, coffee beans are classified and those immature and bad beans are removed to ensure the quality of the coffee. Cubans usually deal with coffee beans in two ways-tanning and washing. Tanning is the simplest, cheapest and most traditional way to treat coffee, which is to let the coffee fruit dry in the sun but not ferment. The general drying time is about four weeks. The washing rule makes the aroma of the fruit more into the coffee beans, thus adding a coarse fruit aroma to the coffee.

Cuba is like a crocodile crouching in the Caribbean, her tail brushing right on the Tropic of Cancer. Cubans have always been known for their enthusiasm, but they are very sincere and stubborn. The same is true of their coffee, which has always been carried out in accordance with Arab coffee washing standards, and they have always followed their unique traditional methods to control the roasting process very extremely. it is necessary to have a very delicious, full-bodied and slippery coffee flavor, but also to keep the coffee beans from being overroasted and causing heat.

Cuba's most famous Coffee: Cubita

Original name: Cubita, Chinese name: Amber Coffee, Origin: Crystal Mountain, Cuba

Cubita is Cuban coffee, which is mainly exported to Japan, France, Germany, Ireland, Canada and other countries. The cubita coffee entering the Chinese market is all selected from the pollution-free Crystal Mountain coffee beans in the high altitude areas of Cuba, which is a typical Caribbean coffee bean. All the particles of coffee beans are strictly selected according to the standard of sieve 17-19, and the selected coffee beans have large particles and high maturity. Cubita is all picked by hand, using water washing refining method to remove defective beans and other impurities to a large extent.

Cuban coffee (Caf é Cubano) is a variant of espresso, which is very rich and sweet. Heavily roasted beans are often mixed with sugar and coffee beans before cooking. Traditionally, coffee is filtered by cloth cones, but nowadays many stores use espresso machines directly. Unlike espresso, which adds sugar directly to a dripping cup or pot, the heat generated by Cuban coffee hydrolyzes some of the sugar, creating a sweeter and thicker state than when you drink it yourself.