How to choose coffee beans with high cost performance? New Oriental Guava Plain Estate in Guatemala

With the deepening of people's contact with coffee, ordinary taste can no longer meet people's needs. As a result, more and more coffee lovers will buy their own beans and go home from the beginning of grinding, blending their favorite coffee flavor step by step. Coffee beans vary in size, new and old quality, how to choose their favorite and cost-effective coffee beans?

Methods / steps

Size and taste

There is a difference in taste between large coffee beans and small coffee beans. For the same kind of coffee, the bigger the bean, the higher the grade, the smaller the bean, the lower the grade, and the cheaper it is. Of course, there are differences in taste. The bigger the beans, the stronger the coffee. However, in addition to high-grade products, the classification of other coffee is not very strict, for example, the central grade beans can account for 60%. Then beans one level higher than this level and beans at a lower level will each account for 20% at the same time. Therefore, sometimes it is roasted according to the standard of the marked central grade, and the other 40% of the coffee cannot be roasted under the best conditions.

New and old and preservation time

Judging the new and old beans in coffee beans as well as the time to market can help to judge the freshness of coffee. The taste of new coffee beans and old coffee beans roasted in the same variety and the same degree will be significantly different, of course, the new beans are more fragrant, the reason is very simple, the freshness of coffee beans will directly affect the roasting and extraction of coffee. Although the moisture of the new bean will be greatly lost and the color will turn white after several years of preservation, the flavor will not be greatly affected, so it is more advantageous to choose the new bean when the specific production date of the coffee bean is unknown.

Country: Guatemala

Producing area: new Oriental

Manor: guava Plain Manor

Producer: Mr.BenjaminDonado

Treatment method: wine flavor and sun treatment

Variety: SL28

Altitude: 1675 m

Flavor: pineapple, dried apricot, red wine

Guatemala is one of the most important coffee producing countries in Central America, with long mountains and different regional climates, thus creating eight major coffee producing areas in Guatemala, all located on the highland topography of the subtropical climate, with abundant and stable rainfall and fertile volcanic ash soil is an excellent environment for coffee trees to grow. PlandelGuayabo is located next to the Volc á ndeSuchitn volcano, which means "guava plain" in Spanish. It is named because of the large number of guava trees planted locally. The owner of the manor is Mr. Donado Donado. The Donado family has been engaged in coffee production since 1990 and has been producing coffee for more than 20 years. Before that, local farmers were so strange to coffee production that it was hard to imagine planting coffee trees in such a steep and high altitude environment, but now it has been proved that Benjamin made the right choice to produce high quality coffee beans with different varieties and different processing methods. In the early NewOriente region of Guatemala, it was common for berry buyers to regularly buy coffee cherries from farmers and then resell them to larger middlemen, where they were resold to the town of Esquipulas, where they were mixed with other batches to form a large batch of SHB that could not be traced back, and finally sold around the world under the name New Oriental (NewOriente). In view of this, more and more international raw bean traders are trying to change this situation, working with local partners to produce coffee raw beans with excellent flavor and traceable origin, breaking the traditional vicious circle. Guava Plain Manor is one of the important members.