Coffee beans come in different shapes: what are flat beans, round beans and elephant beans?

Coffee knowledge: Some berries contain only one seed (for unknown reasons), which fills the entire interior space of the berry and looks like two slightly smaller flat beans stuck together; this bean is called a peaberry and is often found at the top of young coffee trees.

Usually we buy coffee beans, there is a flat side, there is a crack, this is the coffee cherry in the two seeds (that is, coffee beans) next to each other on the side; this normal beans, we call flat beans (or lentils, flat beans).

Usually a packet of coffee beans will be more or less mixed with some round beans, such as mocha on a pile. But there are also special round beans singled out for sale, the most common on the Internet is Tanzania Peaberry (Tanzania Peaberry), Hawaii is also common. As far as I know, although some people think that round beans are more fragrant, the mainstream opinion on the Internet still thinks that there is no difference between taste and flat beans. Round beans are more expensive only because they produce less. However, if you use a popcorn machine to bake, the round beans will roll around and bake faster and more evenly, which may affect the taste; and the round beans are usually smaller than the flat beans of the same tree, which may make the round beans more fragrant and compact-of course, it may be malnutrition. Now that we're talking about size, let's mention the elephant bean (or giant bean,Maragogipe) in passing. I used to see cafes that served "McLaren" or "Mara" in Colombia, which were a little scary and always reminded me of my fingers, but I couldn't find similar place names on the map of Colombia. Looking back at Kummer's book recently, I realized that "mara" originally only meant elephant beans. Although maragopipe is in Brazil, this term can refer to any kind of elephant bean. For the same kind of beans, usually the bigger the higher the price, but the quality, it is not necessarily proportional. We have mentioned that it is better to have cold nights in coffee producing areas, so that coffee beans do not develop too fast and become loose and defective (the same reason, summer tea quality is not good). However, smaller beans, taste is not guaranteed to be more mellow, perhaps just stunted. So size grading is a reference, don't take it too seriously, the final judge is your tongue and nose (and purse).

Source: Wave Coffee Academy