How does Costa Rican coffee taste black? the black honey treatment of coffee beans is dark and sweet.

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Costa Rican Black Honey

Coffee cultivation in Costa Rica was introduced from Cuba in 1779 and coffee was first exported in 1820; coffee currently accounts for a quarter of the export revenue and ranks first among commercial crops. Countless coffee varieties, rich soils, high altitudes and unique microclimates combine to give Costa Rica one of the best coffee reputations on the Central American coffee market.

Costa Rica has a unique natural environment, fertile volcanic ash, mild and moderate temperatures, and stable and abundant rainfall, sufficient daylight hours, significant temperature difference between day and night climate, are one of the factors that coffee has become Costa Rica's main agricultural products. They also produce a wide variety of green coffee beans, from commercially available Arabica beans to Cup of Excellence (COE) green coffee beans, and the palace of Geisha coffee varieties (Geisha), plus countless white, yellow, red and black post-processing methods, the list is endless.

However, with the evolution of fine coffee, the specifications of large producing areas can no longer satisfy the curiosity of fans who pursue high quality coffee, resulting in more and more micro-areas, and trace batches of small estates are excavated.

Treatment:

Although the development of fine coffee started late, but today Costa Rica's fine coffee has developed rapidly, with honey treatment of mild acid, soft taste and sweet high-quality berry flavor, has not been underestimated. The so-called honey process: refers to the coffee beans in the water washing method to remove the peel pulp step, select the remaining part of the pectin meat to make it undergo a fermentation process, this treatment method is honey treatment method. Depending on how much pectin remains, there are different flavors and names.

We usually see honey processing methods are: yellow honey, red honey, black honey.

For example, yellow honey Costa Rica is about 25 percent pectin, red honey is about 50 percent, black honey is about 80 percent pectin meat retained, their most obvious difference is from yellow, red, black one is sweeter than one. Coupled with the rich fruit rhyme, won you coffee gluttonous like.

Knowledge: Costa Rica enacted legislation in 1989 banning domestic cultivation of Robusta and subsequently began restricting the use of cartimor varieties

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