Coffee beans-characteristics of shallow baking of fine sun-dried beans auctioned by Ethiopia COE

2020 Ethiopia's First COE Bid Bean 22#

Country of cultivation: Ethiopia

Coffee producing area: Arcy

Planting altitude: 2050m

Treatment method: sun exposure

Coffee varieties: iron pickup

Degree of baking: medium light baking

According to SCA, the recommended gram weight of hand-brewed coffee is 15g of coffee powder 90 to 91 degrees of hot water 225 ml, and the ratio of water to powder is 1:15.

This coffee bean won the 22nd place in the Ethiopia COE Excellence Cup 2020. The total score of cup test was 87.64 points.

Flavor is floral fruit acid notes citrus, lychee, honey feel, full aroma, acid bright, long finish.

Cup of Excellence is a coffee rating system.

C.O.E. refers to the Cup Of Excellence International Coffee Cup Test. C.O.E. judges are the most credible in the top coffee competition.

The winner of the rigorous competition was the country's best coffee of the year.

Keep high scores in each cup test in order to be at the top, and finally be crowned with the C.O.E. award mark.

The winning farm's coffee beans will be auctioned in a unified way that allows buyers from all over the world to bid in an open and transparent way

This way, the reputation of the winning farm spreads quickly and the competition batch of coffee gets a better price.

Once a year, fine coffee growers submit their best coffee beans for review by a national or international examiner. After at least five reviews,

Coffee beans considered to be the highest quality will be given the title COE. This evaluation system was adopted by coffee production groups in Brazil in 1999,

Subsequently, it was widely used in Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, with a tendency to popularize.

Each coffee farmer association carefully selects about 25- 35 bags of about 60 kg each and sends them to the conference warehouse before the competition until the end of the auction.

More than 500 farms from all countries have signed up for the competition. The first stage is the preliminary competition, the second stage is the semi-final competition, and the third stage is called TOP 10.

Each stage of the individual score plus the total minimum score must reach 84 points or more to qualify, in this strict competition system about 20- 30 farms or estates, according to the score ranking competition beans ranking.

The COE rating scale has eight items, with the highest score of 8 points and the lowest score of 0 points for each item. The weighted score is 36 points, and the total score is 100 points.

A score of 6 means that the project has reached the standard of CoE competition level and belongs to good quality. If it is completely unacceptable, 0 will be given. If the quality is average, give 4 points,

2 points for poor quality, 8 points for excellent or even perfect quality.

The total score is between 70 and 79 points, and this sample belongs to the commercial bean with good quality. With a total score of 80 to 83.5, this sample belongs to fine coffee.

With a total score of 84 points or more, this sample belongs to the CoE competition level, that is, the high level with winning beans.

Most coffee beans in Ethiopia are processed in the sun, as local coffee farmers dry them in their yards, on rooftops and even on the side of roads.

This will cost a lot less than washing, but this rough treatment will cause the coffee beans to be rough and uneven, compared with cooperatives.

Sun-cured coffee from washing plants is more stable in quality and is manually stirred until the moisture content drops to 25 percent.

Turn every 30 to 60 minutes to avoid over-fermented flavors. The COE #22 coffee bean at the Front Street Coffee Auction was officially shown as an iron pickup truck.

Ethiopia's oldest native variety, all arabica derived from iron pickup. The top leaf of iron pickup is bronze, the bean body is oval or thin and pointed, the flavor is elegant,

But the constitution is weak, the disease resistance is poor, the fruit yield is small. Front Street Coffee tested iron pickups of different origins through cups

No matter where it is grown, tin card has its unique clean flavor, balanced characteristics and taste characteristics spread all over the world coffee growing areas.

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COE Excellence Cup What is the significance of the traditional coffee industry mainly pursue a large number of marketing and commercial transactions, but driven by huge profits and commercialization,

The quality and origin of coffee are also slowly being valued. Before the Excellence Cup, most coffee beans were blended,

The wonderful flavor of different coffee beans cannot be highlighted, and the characteristics of flavor are submerged in the name of the country or region, and the real good beans are often buried.