Characteristics of coffee producing countries in Africa | A brief introduction to Kenya's aa grade flavor

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A brief introduction to the characteristics of Kenyan Coffee producing area in Qianjie-African Coffee producing area

Kenya can be said to be a model country for producing fine coffee. Kenya's high-altitude Arabica washed beans are the top coffee beans in the world and are the favorite of many eosinophilic glutton. 1900 coffee was brought in from Ethiopia by the British. Today, the largest agricultural economy accounts for about 50% of the total. 80% of the people in the country are engaged in coffee-related industries. Since 1963, most coffee beans in Kenya have been graded by the Kenyan Coffee Bureau and sold at auction.

The coffee size represented by the Kenyan AA grade should be 17-18 mesh, and the AB grade represents a coffee size of 15-16 mesh and 10% less than 15 mesh, but it is not directly related to the actual quality. Kenya Coffee Bureau is very strict in coffee research, development and quality management, and indirectly helps hard-growing coffee farmers through an excellent auction system to increase the price of coffee beans. And through agricultural education, the growing techniques of coffee farmers are increasingly updated to produce better coffee. Kenya coffee with special strong BlackBerry fruit sour taste and high quality produces less. These coffee beans are excellent coffee farms purchased by coffee raw bean merchants.

Coffee beans are usually made up of two peas (commonly known as mother beans), while PB beans are shaped in the shape of rice or oval (commonly known as male beans) Broog has a photo comparison. Kenya round beans are a variety of Kenya beans selected by hand, and they are the most individual coffee PB beans with the most unique style and the widest roasting range, and are also familiar to friends.

The AA Top class of honey cooperative in Sika producing area is produced in the foothills of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. It is a coffee produced by a cooperative honey cooperative (The Asali Cooperative) in the Rift Valley Sika region (Thika), which is connected to Ethiopia in the east. This cooperative is a water treatment plant owned by 155small farmers of coffee families, with an annual output of 1200 bags of raw coffee beans, all of which come from coffee beans grown by nearby coffee farmers. An average of 250 coffee trees are planted by each farmer, and the red fruits collected are handed over to the water washing plant for treatment. the coffee here is characterized by black millet fruit flavor. flavor description: grapefruit, mulberry, caramel, candied-like sweet and sour, full and juicy, crisp and sweet.

At present, there are four common varieties: bourbon (Bourbon), Ken (Kents,SL34, SL28), Tibica (Typica) and Luli 11 (Riuri 11). Now about 90% of the coffee varieties are SL34 and SL28. The new variety Batian published in 2007 has not been planted in large quantities. The vast majority of Kenyan coffee is grown organically without certification because of the use of improved planting techniques and the rare use of chemical pesticides or herbicides. All high-end coffee in Kenya is washed, while the low-grade products of sun-dried beans (non-washed buni) are for local use only.

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