Notes on searching for beans on Qianjie Street | Special report on Rose Summer of Multi-Tower Goddess Manor in Costa Rica

Costa Rica Dota El DiosaGeisha Costa Rica multi-tower goddess manor summer

Origin: CostaRiCa, Costa Rica

Producing area: Tarazhu Tarrazu

Manor: multi-Tower Goddess Manor Dota EI Diosa

Variety: rose summer Geisha

Altitude: 1800m

Treatment: anaerobic enzyme washing

| | production area description |

The fertile volcanic ash, mild and suitable temperature, and stable and abundant rainfall on the Costa Rican coffee plantation is one of the factors why coffee has become one of the main agricultural products in Costa rica. and the coffee beans produced at the high latitudes of Costa Rica are famous in the world, rich, mild in taste, but extremely sour, and the coffee beans here are carefully processed, which is why. To have high-quality coffee.

The Starika coffee harvest season can be divided into two seasons, the dry season is from December to April, the coffee harvest is from December to April, and the wet (rainy) season is from May to November. In recent years, micro-treatment plants have been established, and since the water consumption is only 5% of that of traditional washing plants, and does not require huge sinks and exposure fields, the investment required is relatively small. The "honey-treated coffee" with low acidity, high complexity and strong sweet flavor has become the target of competition in the coffee industry in recent years.

Located in the south of SanJos é, the capital of Tarasu, Costa Rica is one of the most important coffee growers in the country. Among the many excellent producing areas in Costa Rica, there is a famous producing area-Tarrazu, which is very famous in the boutique coffee world and is one of the major coffee producing areas in the world.

Tarasu is located in the fertile volcanic region of Central America, where there is a humid climate and fertile volcanic soil, abundant rainfall throughout the year, high altitude, dense forest natural shade, providing a unique growth environment for coffee growth. Without the use of pesticides or artificial fertilizers, nearly 95% of the coffee beans produced by Tarazu Mountain belong to extremely hard beans (SHB), which generally grow at an altitude of more than 1500 meters.

| | Goddess Manor |

The Goddess Manor is located in the Dota region of Costa Rica's best-known tarrazu region and is famous for producing micro-batch sub-geisha / Rosa varieties.

In 1865, the Dota region enjoyed the reputation of good Costa Rican coffee, because the highway construction extending to the capital had to pass through Tarazu District when it was developed to the Dota Valley, so the future Goyuan Coffee Bureau sub-area marking is used to mark Dota tarrazu, this area is a typical plateau topography, whether soil or temperature and humidity is the best choice in terms of coffee growing conditions.

The Goddess Manor was founded in the 1960s, and the landowner and the now popular Panamanian geisha / rose summer father Pachi Serracin are very good friends, while Pachi Serracin has brought back the geisha / rose summer variety at CATIE, the world's largest coffee variety and research station in Costa Rica. The Goddess Manor grows coffee organically, using local native trees and fruit trees as shade.

The fertilizer used is also coffee, cherry and fruit mixed with molasses, adding fertile soil with high mineral content in the adjacent mountain area with microbial fermentation to produce organic fertilizer that can enhance coffee value and disease resistance, and is also used to use California earthworms as culture soil. and directly used as the main nutrient source of coffee trees and mixed planting a variety of coffee varieties. All buy and pick ripe red-purple berries and extensively control the soaking and fermentation process, and develop a very unique constant temperature treatment, not many and many fermentation degrees make the coffee an excellent balance between clarity and complexity, so that its flavor shows more stability, people are intoxicated. | Geisha has the same pronunciation as Japanese geisha, so it is also called geisha coffee. Because the tree species is taller than ordinary coffee trees, it was originally planted in a small area of the manor and was used as a windbreak.

The species of Geisha was discovered in the rose forest of Ethiopia in 1931 and sent to the Coffee Institute in Kenya. Introduced to Uganda and Tanzania in 1936 and Costa Rica in 1953, little attention was paid to Rose Summer until one day, Don Pachi was originally brought to Costa Rica from the town of GESHA in southwestern Ethiopia, and then Rosa entered Panama along the southern route, where Esmerada Manor in Panama separated it from other varieties and won the National Coffee Competition. | treatment anaerobic enzyme washing anaerobic enzyme washing method means that after harvesting all red fresh fruit, peel and pectin are removed by mechanical washing equipment, and enzymes are put into the fermentation tank to increase the flavor and sweetness of coffee.

| | Analysis of raw beans |

Raw beans look long and light green, different from the previous smell of raw beans and grass, the goddess Rose Summer smells not only with grass, but also with more bergamot and berry fragrance. | Baking analysis takes into account that the beans in Costa Rica are hard and the moisture content is medium. Qianjie bakers choose to rise at high temperature when baking, in the way of rapid dehydration. Use a faster baking rhythm to show the fruit flavor of the goddess rose summer and the fragrance of flowers ~ ~ Yangjia 800N (300g baking capacity)

The furnace temperature is 170℃, the firepower is 120mm, the throttle is open 3; the temperature recovery point is 1140℃, the throttle is opened to 4, the firepower is unchanged; when the furnace temperature is 149℃, the bean meter turns yellow, the grass smell disappears completely, and enters the dehydration stage, when the furnace temperature reaches 166℃, the firepower is adjusted to 110C, the throttle remains the same.

The smell of toasted bread has obviously changed to the smell of coffee, which can be defined as a prelude to an explosion. At this time, it is necessary to listen carefully to the sound of the explosion point until the sound of the explosion point starts to explode. Adjust the throttle to 5 (the tuning power should be very careful, not so small as to be so small that there is no burst sound). After an explosion, the development of 1 cup 39th 30 ", 190 ℃ into the pot.

Agtron bean color value 72.9 (top picture), Agtron pink value 88.2 (bottom picture), Roast Delta value 15.3. | | Cup report |

Flavor: rose, lemon, honey, maple syrup, fruit tea | recommended cooking method: hand filter cup: Hario V60 water temperature: 90-92 ℃ powder quantity: 15g powder: 15g powder / water ratio: 1Rod 15 ℃ 1Rd 16 grind: medium and fine grinding (BG 7T: pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 sieve 58%) flushing and cooking techniques: steaming with 30g water for 30 seconds in staged extraction, and staged water injection to 124g in small water circle. When the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed, continue to inject water to 227 grams to stop water injection, and remove the filter cup when the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed. (the time of steaming starts) the extraction time is 2kg / 39. 01 ".

Flavor: the overall flavor of the flower is more prominent, very lemon fruit tea, the entrance has citrus, cream, taste more refreshing, sweet.

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