What is the XO treatment of beans for the champion of 2018WBC? introduction to XO treatment of Coffee

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In the WBC coffee competition, the coffee treatment used by the runner-up Lex Wenneker made the front street coffee curious. The coffee beans used in the Lex Wenneker competition are the geisha / Rosa XO treatment of the Blue Hills Manor (Finca Cerro Azul) in Granja La Esperanza, Colombia.

Hope Manor Blue Hill beans, can be said to be a geisha / rose summer classic works, every year will hear his name, not to grow cocoons are difficult, this time in the treatment of innovation.

XO treatment does not add XO into the treatment, nor is it put out for many years before export baking.

Whether the anaerobic / anaerobic or hypoxic fermentation treatment is used in the treatment named XO, the answer is no.

The manor replied that the XO treatment still preferred the traditional sun treatment. Before drying in the sun on the bed rack, the coffee cherry fruit was kept at a low temperature for 48 hours (25 ℃). The focus seemed to be on the temperature control during this long fermentation process. In the subsequent drying operation, also put great emphasis on temperature control, the whole process is controlled below 42 ℃.

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