Yega Xuefei's unique taste and what is the difference between washing and tanning?

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Brief introduction of Qianjie-Yejia Xuefei Flavor and Solar washing treatment

Yega Xuefei is a small town, 700-2100 meters above sea level, synonymous with Ethiopian boutique coffee. It has been a wetland since ancient times. The ancient saying "Yirga" means "settle down" and "Cheffe" means "wetland".

The surrounding Lake Turkana, Lake Abaya and Lake Chamo bring rich water vapor here. The Rift Valley, represented by Misty valley, is foggy all the year round, like spring all the year round, with a gentle breeze, cool and humid, and thousands of coffee trees thrive, giving birth to the unique and unpredictable atmosphere of Yejia Xuefei's unique fragrance of flowers and fruits.

At first, Yejassefi's coffee trees were planted by European monks (a bit like Belgian monks growing wheat to brew beer), and later by farmers or cooperatives. Coffee trees are naturally scattered in forests, countryside and backyards.

During the harvest season, the Ethiopian Coffee Trading Company will go to town to buy coffee beans collected by farmers. Yega Xuefei once belonged to the Sidamo producing area. Because of its unique flavor, it was finally exported by the brand auction of "Yega Xuefei", becoming a well-known producing area, while in Yega Xuefei, there are more than 2000 processing plants or cooperatives, large and small, such as Waka, Arica aricha and so on.

Compared with the ordinary washed G2 Chevy, its taste is more clear and flawless, with a charming girl smile, bright, delicate citric acid, elegant taste, fresh lemon, jasmine, ginger and other flowers with a hint of honey make people relaxed and happy all day. No milk or sugar, let the rich texture and unique soft flowers brush through your taste buds, leaving an endless aftertaste Yega Xuefei exudes an extremely complex aroma, showing an extremely excellent taste, which is difficult to describe. In general, the dry aroma of Yega Chuefei is full of fruit, with strong aromas of dried fruit, strawberry, mango and apricot jam.

Wet fragrance is like sweet syrup, like sticky apricot juice, wrapped in plain honey or chocolate. The entrance is not strong, the mellow thickness is medium, the sour taste is not obvious, but it is lively and bright, like fruit black tea.

Washing type:

Natural fermentation water washing method A process: harvest → peeled → natural fermentation 12-24 hours → washing → sun-dried water washing method the biggest feature is that the coffee flavor is clean without miscellaneous taste, refreshing taste, coffee usually with bright sour and fruity, such as Ethiopia and Kenya have a very clear flavor.

Sun treatment:

The so-called sun treatment (Natural process), strictly speaking, should be called "whole berry drying". Sun treatment, because beans and peel, pulp together with the sun, a higher degree of fermentation, but also for a long time, can usually develop more tropical fruit flavor. While the washing method leaves only a thin layer of mucous membrane, the overall treatment time is also short, and the cleanliness is general. Sun treatment is the oldest and seemingly simplest method of treatment. for more than a thousand years, the principle is to harvest coffee berries, spread them on the ground and dry them, then remove the dried peel / pulp / coffee shell, and then get raw beans, that's all.

Knowledge expansion: washed coffee is closely related to the flavor of coffee beans, and origin and environmental conditions play an important role in increasing flavor. Almost 100% of the washed flavor depends on the natural sugars and nutrients absorbed by coffee beans during their growth cycle. This way is designed to taste the internal flavor of coffee beans, rather than the flavor added to the bean surface.

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