Will micro-batches of coffee be of better quality than regular coffee? How about the Mozart flavor of the Costa Rican Musicians Series?

Recently, occasionally, some friends discussed microbatches of coffee with Qianjie when buying beans at Qianjie stores. This made some Xiaobai friends who had just started feel puzzled after hearing this: In addition to single products and Italian styles, there is actually a category of microbatches for coffee beans? So he asked Qianjie: "What is a micro-batch coffee?"

What is Microlot coffee? If we understand it based on the name alone, then we can interpret "micro-batch coffee" as a batch of coffee with a small quantity. This is indeed the case. The number of micro-batches of coffee will not be too much. From a consumer's perspective, it is often interpreted as a small batch of coffee with higher quality or a more unique flavor.

Why is it interpreted this way? Because coffee beans are a bulk commodity, their freight costs cannot be underestimated. The vast majority of coffee beans are exported by sea. Because the production of coffee beans is very large and sea transportation is the lower among many transportation costs, many coffee beans are transported by sea. However, shipping requires renting containers. For example, the capacity of a 20-foot container is 17.5 tons. If your batch is too small and the quantity of coffee beans is too small, the cost of shipping will be very high. Even if transportation is carried out by other methods, the cost will be much higher compared with the same period last year. So this will lead to the fact that if your micro-batch coffee is not unique enough, such as the flavor is not outstanding enough, and the quality is not high enough, then due to the increase in freight costs, the competitiveness of the micro-batch will be far inferior to that of other coffee beans of the same quality.

Therefore, although the price of "micro-batches" of coffee generally circulated in the consumer market will be higher than that of the same category, its quality and taste will be guaranteed to a certain extent. Generally speaking, most micro-batches of coffee are produced by manors, especially those in coffee producing areas in Central America such as Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica. Because many manors in these producing areas pay more attention to quality than production, they pay more attention to the impact of variety, planting, and processing on coffee.

However, with the gradual spread of the concept of boutique coffee, more and more producing areas have begun to pay attention to the quality of coffee. They have also paid attention to the impact of various links on coffee, so there are more and more microbatches of coffee. Among the more common microbatches of coffee are some specially processed microbatches of coffee made for experimental purposes.

For example, if some farms, which used to produce coffee primarily by sun and water, one day want to venture into the effects of other treatments, such as anaerobic sun and double anaerobic sun, they will take some beans and experiment with them in separate batches.

Due to its low yield and special nature, this batch of coffee beans will not be mixed with other conventionally processed coffee beans, so it is called "micro-batch coffee." Usually, this experimental coffee bean will be taken by the bean hunter to observe the market reaction, as a reference for next year's production plan. If the feedback is good, mass production will be possible next quarter. If the feedback is not good, it will stop.

Of course, if it is some well-known large manor houses, these experimental microbatches can even be put into the auction ranks on the official website as special batches to increase their value after receiving positive feedback. Such micro-batches of coffee that can participate in the auction usually have higher quality. For example, the coffee beans used to be processed are grown at a higher altitude, or the processing process will be more refined.

Carefully selected micro-batches of coffee Some estates will also select the coffee beans with the best flavor and better quality in the manor to sell them in batches independently or participate in bidding, such as Emerald Estate. Jade Manor has a total of three manors, which have been divided into 22 plots. Every year, Emerald Manor selects several batches of coffee with the best flavor through cup testing and participates in the auction independently in batches, each batch being only 50 pounds or less.

Many other manors will use the same method to find the best coffee beans in the manor to participate in various competitions. These coffee beans, without exception, can be said to be the most outstanding representatives of their manor, so both quality and price will be higher than products sold regularly.

Privately customized micro-batches of coffee Many manors have already started private business. They can process and make a batch of coffee beans according to customer requirements, or the manors can jointly develop a new project batch with traders or roasters. Among the bean lists on Front Street, there is a micro-batch coffee of this nature. It is Costa Rica Mozart.

It has a very unique flavor treated with raisin honey. We can obviously taste flavors similar to lavender flowers, raisins, sweet oranges, and berries. It is very good.

Early Access Micro-Batch Coffee Every year, after the coffee produced by some well-known coffee producing areas or well-known brands reaches the harvest season, we can quickly see new seasonal coffee beans from a certain production area and a certain brand with the four characters of "Air Transport Batch" on the market. For example, beans such as Guixia Village Manor, Hongbiao Guixia, and Essi Huakui in Qianjie Bean List all have similar chestnuts.

The purpose of these batches is to warm up the market in advance and open the way for shipping batches that will not arrive until one to two months later. Airfreight batches will allow major consumers to taste the delicious taste of the new season's coffee beans in advance. This will increase the popularity of the beans and make the shipping batches more competitive. Under normal circumstances, the quality of air batches is often higher than that of sea batches, and the price is the same.

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