Sweet coffee beans recommend the flavor of black soul coffee beans in Las Halas Manor, Costa Rica.

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When introducing the sun treatment of coffee beans in Qianjie Coffee, it is said that when the ripe red coffee berries are directly exposed to the whole fruit, the coffee beans will turn into black dried fruit and then be peeled and shelled. This is how the name "black soul" of this coffee bean comes from, so it even uses the soul. It must be the proud work of the owner of the manor.

Front Street Coffee-Costa Rican Black Soul Coffee beans

Producing area: the Central Valley of Costa Rica

Altitude: 1300-1500m

Treatment: sun treatment

Variety: Kaddura, Kaduai

Grade: SHB

Central valley

Central Valle

The producing area of the Central Valley is 1200-1600 meters above sea level. From November to March, this producing area has three sub-producing areas, namely, San Jose, Eredia and Alajuela. The Central Valley is also the first area in Costa Rica to grow coffee, which is rich in volcanic soil. Qianjie coffee has passed the cup test of the coffee in this producing area, and the coffee beans in this area show a bright, acidity and fragrance. Sometimes with chocolate aroma.

Las Halas Manor

Finca Las Lajas

Las Haras Manor is located in the Central Valley producing area (Central Valley) not far from the capital, quite close to the Poas Volcano volcano, at an altitude of 1250-1500 meters, with an annual output of about 55200 kg.

Many years ago, most coffee beans in Costa Rica were treated with water. Francesca, the owner of the manor, has been hoping to improve the flavor of the coffee in the manor. Therefore, the manor owner began to study and improve a lot of equipment in the manor to better meet the needs of sun and honey coffee processing. Ras Lajas Manor is one of the earliest manors to carry out systematic research and treatment.

After harvesting the coffee fruit, the owner will use the sweetness detector (BRIX) to screen the standard red coffee fruit, set up its own washing treatment station for coffee treatment, and finally put it on the African scaffolding for follow-up exposure. The process of carefully screening mature coffee red fruits by the garden owner undoubtedly ensures that the sweetness of each batch of coffee fruit is guaranteed, coupled with the sun treatment, so that the pectin in the coffee fruit and the rich sugar in the pulp are converted into coffee beans. Qianjie believes that coffee beans produced in such a strict way will be sweeter than those selected by hand.

Sun treatment

Natural

The treatment of this black soul bean from Qianjie is the red fruit sun treatment mentioned above. The harvested coffee fruit is screened by the sweetness detector (BRIX) to meet the standard coffee red fruit, and the red fruit is turned and exposed regularly for one day and shaded by plastic cloth for one day until the moisture content is 11.5%. The whole process takes about three weeks.

Coffee bean variety

Caturra&Catuai

The tail of the Kaddura variety is a little more curved than the bourbon, and its shape is round and slender. The variety produced by Kaddura and the New World has the slender round body of Kaddura and the flat shape of the New World, that is to say, it looks round and flat, but the tail end is slender. Qianjie got this black soul coffee bean and observed that the color of raw beans is typical sun-treated yellowish green, smells like a touch of Hawthorn acid, and smells appetizing.

Qianjie Coffee Baking record

Qianjie roaster uses the roaster Yang family 800N semi-direct fire, the baking capacity is 300g. The furnace temperature is preheated to 170℃ and the firepower is turned on to 140after opening the throttle for 3pm for 30 seconds. When the temperature is 101.6 ℃, the firepower does not change, the throttle turns yellow when the throttle is opened to 4pm, the smell of grass disappears, enters the dehydration stage, the firepower remains unchanged, and the throttle remains at 4.

After dehydration, the bean surface appears wrinkles and black markings, and the smell of toast changes to coffee, which is a prelude to an explosion. Listen to the sound of an explosion. When the sound of the explosion begins, the throttle is fully open for 5, and the firepower remains unchanged. After the explosion, the development time was 1: 55, and the pot was put in at 195 ℃.

Coffee cup test report on Qianjie

Dry fragrance: flower fragrance

Wet fragrance: fermented fruit aroma

Flavor: citrus, plum, cream, almonds, fruit tea, juicy feeling

Experience of brewing coffee in Qianjie

Filter cup: Hario 01

Powder content: 15g

Powder / water ratio: 1:15

Water temperature: 90 °C

Degree of grinding: medium and fine grinding (77% of Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate)

Qianjie coffee segmented extraction method: first, use 30g water to fully wet the powder layer in the shape of "hamburger" and steam for 30s (if we don't see a "hamburger" shape, we should pay attention to the fact that the coffee beans are not fresh enough / ground too coarse) In the second stage, the water is injected to 125g at 55s of the timer, then stop and wait for the water level to drop to 2 / 3 of the powder layer to inject into the third stage (this stage is to extract the sweet and sour flavor substances from the coffee powder). In the third stage, the water is injected into 225g when the timer is 390 / 45 ", and the total extraction time is 1 hour 3955". The purpose of this section is to extract the mellow flavor substances from the coffee powder. After the coffee is extracted, the coffee is fully shaken before tasting.

Brewing flavor: it smells of fermented wine and almonds, with sour notes of plum, citrus and green apple in the mouth, dark chocolate and nuts in the middle, and a hint of sucrose at the end; when the temperature drops down, the entrance is as sour and sweet as tropical fruit, sweet and creamy in the middle, with a hint of fruit tea in the finish.

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