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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: Ethiopia

Grade: G1

Production area: Guji

Planting altitude: 1800-2000m

Soil type: volcanic laterite

Annual rainfall: 1100-1200 cm

Treatment: insolation

Variety: native species (Heirloom)

Disposal site: Sirsa Cooperative

Raw bean specification: 17-18 mesh

Flavor: Jasmine, honey, citrus, ripe berries

The coffee flavor of Sidamo is very diverse, and the different soil types, microclimate and countless native coffee species make the coffee produced in each town have obvious differences and characteristics. In 2010-12, it won three consecutive high marks from coffee review 92 to 94, which shows the extraordinary value of raw beans in this area! The territory is covered by towering mountains, highlands, plateaus, valleys and plains with a variety of topography. The geology of the area belongs to the fertile and well-drained volcanic soil, which is nearly two meters deep and the surface soil is dark brown or brown. The biggest advantage of this place is that the soil fertility is maintained through the circulation of natural organic matter, with the withered leaves or litter of the surrounding trees and the residual roots of plants as natural fertilizer. This batch is produced by Sirsa Shilcho Cooperative near Dilla Town. The cooperative was founded in 1976 and is currently a member of the Sidamo Farmers' Cooperative Union SCFCU (Sidamo Coffee Farmer Cooperative Union). We have screened the coffee again and again and selected this batch for excellent flavor.