Why are the packaging of raw coffee beans in sacks? How many kilograms is a bag of raw beans? What are the packaging specifications of coffee beans?

If you go to a cafe with yellow sacks everywhere, it is likely to be a self-baking cafe. Because of the characteristics of most self-baking cafes, there are not only more choices for beans, but also the yellow sacks that can be found everywhere in the cafe.

At present, sacks are the mainstream packaging of raw coffee beans. When exporting raw coffee beans in most producing areas, sacks are used as storage containers for raw coffee beans. When the roaster buys raw beans in large quantities from the raw bean merchant, the raw coffee beans are stored intact in the sack and shipped to the roaster (if purchased in small quantities, the raw bean merchants use other packages to separate the coffee beans). When the sack completes the role of storage and transportation, because of its excellent production and different styles, it is often used by bakers as store decoration, or made into surrounding products to be sold to others. The bars and walls of the front street stores are decorated with sacks of coffee beans. So one day, the guests and friends who arrived at the store asked: "Why are so many raw coffee beans in producing areas packed in gunny bags?"

Why are raw coffee beans packed in gunny bags? Because coffee beans are a kind of agricultural products in international trade, the guarantee of their quality not only depends on the good planting environment and fine handling, but also the quality preservation during transportation. The packaging of raw coffee beans is a very prominent factor affecting the quality of coffee beans in the process of transportation. So we can see some clues from here that the reason for the use of gunny bags must be more than just cheap (although cheap is also the main reason).

(pictured with cooked beans) the sacks that store raw coffee beans are mainly made of jute, a natural fiber plant from South Asia. In South Asian countries, especially in India, it has the title of "soft gold". Because jute can rely on planting production, and the planting cost is very low, so the price of textiles made from it is very affordable. For agricultural products that require a lot of transportation and packaging, this is a big advantage of choosing it. In addition, jute fiber is long and tough, and the jute bags made from it have a strong "pressure resistance". They can withstand the pressure of heavy objects and are not easy to damage, so they are very suitable for the packaging of coffee beans, which is a staple agricultural product. At the same time, the sack also has a very good air permeability and moisture absorption. In the long process of transportation, what people fear most is the mildew of coffee beans. But as it happens, the sack woven with jute has loose holes, excellent air permeability and a certain degree of hygroscopicity. This makes the water vapor will not stay in the coffee beans, can keep the coffee beans dry, not easy to cause mildew and other negative conditions.

Finally, it has a cushioning effect! Coffee beans will continue to experience bumps during long-distance transportation, while the softness and elasticity of gunny bags can play a damping role. It can effectively reduce the fragmentation damage caused by vibration in the process of transportation, and it will be more convenient to carry it manually.

Not all raw coffee beans are packed in gunny bags! Qianjie also mentioned that nowadays only most but not all people use gunny bags as packaging. In the early days, due to various restrictions, the packaging of raw coffee beans was mainly in gunny bags. However, with the development of economy, there are more and more changes in the packaging of raw coffee beans. For example, the top blue mountain coffee shared in front of the street some time ago, it uses oak barrels as raw bean packaging. Or some of the more expensive coffee beans will be in the form of vacuum-sealed packaging plus air transportation, so that the products can be sent to the roasters as much as possible.

Not only that, with the development of modern science and technology, now raw coffee beans will also be put into the inner bag made of new materials, which has a better performance. But in spite of this, sacks are still the main choice in most coffee producing areas. after all, it is really excellent. At the same time, after many years of use, it has a certain symbolism.

How much does a sack of coffee and raw beans weigh? Just like coffee cooked beans, coffee raw beans also have different packaging specifications, but at present, most of the specifications of a sack on the market are 60kg/ bags.

This is because since the 19th century, Brazil's extremely high production capacity and exports have required large packaging to complete the transportation of coffee beans. Then Brazilian coffee exporters began using 60kg (132lb) gunny bags to pack raw beans. Subsequently, this specification became popular, and the 60kg became the standard weight unit for sack coffee. (repeat in front of the street: even though today's bags of coffee and raw beans come in many sizes, a bag of coffee is usually understood as 60,000 kg).

Information on coffee raw bean sack Coffee raw bean sack is not only used as a tool to store and transport coffee beans, but also as a "identification of coffee beans". Because there should be a lot of information on the sack, in addition to the raw bean merchant's own logo, the coffee bean producing area, processing, variety, product batch number, ICO certificate number and other related information are recorded. Since it is mainly used for export, the contents printed on sacks need to be reviewed like customs declaration. That's why Qianjie said that this is also a "proof of identity" for coffee beans, because the information is quite authentic.

It is worth mentioning that such a practice was actually implemented as early as the 15th century! For hundreds of years from the beginning of the 15th century, all coffee beans had to be concentrated in the Yemeni port of Moka and then exported across the Red Sea from the port of Mocha. In order to prove that the coffee beans were exported by the Yemeni mocha, the sacks containing the coffee beans are marked with the word "MOCHA". This then led Europeans to refer to delicious coffee beans from the port of Mocha as "mocha coffee", which explains why mocha became synonymous with coffee in the early days.

Because the space is too long, Qianjie does not explain the "identity information" on different sacks here. Interested friends can read the previous articles in Qianjie, or next time, Qianjie will draw up another draft and explain it well.

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