Costa Rica San Roman washing plant coffee beans cooked beans representative of Central and South America

Costa Rica's best coffee seems to come from small processing plants, spread over several major coffee growing regions, including Tara Pearl and Western Valley. The so-called coffee revolution, which began 15 years ago, has dramatically changed the way roasting experts and importers think about Costa Rican coffee. Centered in the processing plant, coffee beans are collected from small farms around, mostly small communities or families, growing coffee on their own small farms or on land, all of which are processed and dried in a small processing plant. Royal Coffee is unique in its quality and flavor, thanks in large part to the cooperation between coffee producers and us. San Romain treatment plant, the use of washing treatment method based on a strong taste. Coffee cherries are hand-selected, coffee farmers remove overripe or immature cherries, and then production processing, using a 3 disc aagaarde peeling machine to remove the peel and pulp, and then using a machine to divide the coffee beans into three grades according to the density of the beans. Grade 1 and 2 green beans are fermented separately, while grade 3 is low quality green beans. Fermented in the shade for about 24~36 hours, washed after fermentation, graded according to density again in the washing channel, and then soaked in water overnight. The processed coffee is roasted and has a bitter sweet chocolate flavor with a creamy sweet texture, combined with a low profile wine acidity, a strong aroma and a memorable fruit sweetness of chocolate beans.

Costa Rican coffee cultivation was introduced from Cuba in 1779 and exported for the first time in 1820. There are about 32,000 coffee farmers in Costa Rica, with an average cultivation area of less than one hectare (10,000 m2) per farmer. Costa Rica has a population of 4.1 million (2006), 82,500 hectares of coffee cultivation area, an annual production of 1.7 million bags (60kgs per bag), and an annual domestic consumption of 380,000 bags, with an average annual consumption of 5.5 kgs per person, which is higher than Japan's (consumption of 4 kgs).