How is a good cup of coffee born?

Do you remember Stephen Chow's "Self-cultivation of an Actor"? This incident tells us that "self-cultivation" is very important and critical if we want to turn over a salted fish. So, how is a good cup of coffee born? This has to be traced back to the source. Let's watch the cultivation process of small coffee beans together with Xiaobian.

How does a small coffee seed grow through several years of spring and autumn, after the treatment of thousands of tempering, and finally to a cup of fragrant coffee? Come on, let's watch it together.

1. Know coffee fruit

Here is the coffee fruit, and the coffee we taste is actually the seed part of the coffee fruit.

2. Start growing coffee

After seeing the structure of coffee seeds, is it clearer? Then we'll start growing coffee.

How cute are coffee sprouts that break through the ground? Is there anything? It was carefully cultivated in a greenhouse! Next, the industrious farmer uncle will transplant them into the coffee field.

Coffee trees are only suitable for growing in tropical or subtropical regions, between 25 degrees north latitude and 30 degrees south latitude-also known as the coffee belt, the most suitable for coffee cultivation. China has three major coffee-producing areas: Yunnan, Hainan and Taiwan.

Hainan's Fushan coffee can be said to be well-known at home and abroad, its taste mellow and delicious, many old coffee customers favorite is this original taste.

Coffee trees bloom for the first time in about three years old, coffee flowers are white five-petal tubular flowers, floating with a faint jasmine fragrance, inflorescences dense and arranged in clusters, flowers bloom two or three days later will wither. If you have the opportunity to visit the coffee manor in flowering, you can see a white flower sea, very spectacular!

After a few months will begin to bear fruit, coffee fruit for stone fruit, initially green, then gradually yellow, mature into red, and cherry is very similar, so called coffee cherry (Coffee Cherry), this time can be harvested.

Harvest season fruitful, peel coffee fruit, take out the nuts inside, is the raw material we make coffee.

3. Continue to process coffee beans

This process will generally use the sun method or washing method, and after a certain degree of fermentation treatment, get a rich taste of sour and sweet.

(1)sun-drying

(2)washing method

Sunning and washing methods have their own advantages, and the coffee beans processed have different tastes. In recent years, after improvement and development, evolved a new way of treatment-half-day sun washing method, also known as honey treatment method. Coffee beans treated with honey are more sweet and charming, but the method is more complicated and the fermentation degree is not easy to control.

The processed green beans will be preserved in the form of shelled beans, at which time the water content is about 12%. Before roasting, the inner shell and silver skin are removed, the coffee beans of appropriate size are sorted out, and impurities and defective beans are picked out, so that the coffee beans with good taste can be roasted.

4. Coffee roasting

The most important thing is coffee roasting! Coffee beans are roasted for a short time, usually 8-16 minutes. During the roasting process, after a series of complex chemical changes, the color and size of coffee beans are very different from those of raw beans, and they will emit attractive aroma.

Coffee beans finally turn into coffee

I smell coffee, how can I drink coffee? First, grind the roasted coffee into coffee powder; then, you need some coffee brewing tools, such as siphon pot, hand brewing kit or espresso machine, etc., after extraction, you can drink a cup of fragrant, happy coffee.

Experienced "from seed to cup" coffee journey, I believe we all feel the hard-won of a coffee bean, so, please cherish every cup of good coffee oh!

Source: Red Wine Encyclopedia (WeChat: wikiwine)