How to choose coffee beans with high cost performance? Washing wave of Muxiui treatment plant in the western province of Rwanda

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: Rwanda

Producing area: Lutexiluo producing area in the western province

Altitude: 1827 m

Rainfall: > 1500mm

Treatment: washing, sun drying of elevated scaffolding

Variety: BM-139 (bourbon) species

Processing plant: Mushuyi processing plant

Landowner: 1756 member small farmers (about 253 plants per small farmer)

Flavor: red apple, cherry, cinnamon, honey

[Mushonyi processing plant has an amazing award record. Apart from winning the COE Excellence Cup in 2010, it won the championship, 12th, 16th and 28th in four batches in 2011 alone! ]

Rwanda can be said to be a fast-growing boutique coffee producer in East Africa recently. Apart from the vivid memories of its sad story of the Luanda Holocaust, the quality of its boutique coffee has also improved very rapidly. This year, we have tested several fresh, very beautiful and elegant acids worthy of Rwanda.

Like many African countries, Rwandan coffee is mainly produced by small farmers, and the ripe cherry fruits are collected and sent to the processing station every year during the harvest period. During the annual harvest period, the ripe coffee berries picked by farmers are concentrated in the treatment station for treatment, first selected by hand to ensure that no immature or damaged fruit is mixed in. Then remove the pericarp, wash the pectin in the channel after 12-18 hours of washing and fermentation in a cool and low temperature environment. During the drying process of the scaffolding, the members of the treatment station will turn manually and take care of them carefully to ensure that the raw beans with shells will not lose moisture or dry unevenly in sufficient sunlight, until the moisture content stability of raw beans is reduced to less than 14%.