Country classification method selected to determine fine coffee

The term "fine coffee" was first put forward by Ms. Knudsen of the United States in Coffee and Tea magazine. At that time, Ms. Knudsen, as a coffee buyer of B.C. Ireland in San Francisco, was very dissatisfied with the neglect of the quality of raw coffee in the industry, and even some big roasters mixed a large amount of Robesda beans in the comprehensive beans, so she put forward the concept of fine coffee to advocate the improvement of the quality of the industry. This term is used to describe coffee beans with distinctive flavor characteristics that grow in a special environment. Its use in international coffee conferences makes it spread rapidly.

In fact, according to Ms. Knudsen, people started drinking fine coffee, but later, due to the growing demand for coffee, the discovery and use of new coffee varieties led to the decline of coffee quality. later, people even began to dislike this bad coffee and began to turn to other drinks. In this case, Ms. Knudsen re-made people realize the value of boutique coffee, which led to a boutique coffee boom. In the United States, there are enterprises and stores in pursuit of boutique coffee represented by Starbucks. The market for boutique coffee is also growing. In the 1990s, with the rapid increase of boutique coffee retailers and cafes, boutique coffee has become one of the fastest growing markets in the catering service industry, reaching $12.5 billion in the United States alone in 2007. Now boutique coffee has become the fastest growing coffee market. Coffee producing and importing countries around the world are aware of the great potential of the boutique coffee market, and continue to make efforts to the production and production of boutique coffee.

Determination of the selection of classification methods for each country:

1. Generally speaking, coffee is not classified according to altitude in countries near the equator because coffee is grown at a higher altitude. In addition, if it is picked by hand and processed by washing, it will not be graded by bad points because there are few immature beans and sundries mixed in. Therefore, the size of the sieve number is generally used as the grading standard.

Such as Colombia, Tanzania, Kenya

two。 Far from the equator, countries that use washing treatment take the elevation of highlands as the standard of classification because both highlands and lowlands can be planted.

Such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador

3. Mainly by hand picking, but mostly for dry processing. Dry processing is easy to mix with immature beans and other defective beans, so it is classified according to the number of bad points.

Such as Ethiopia, Peru.

4. Except for the countries listed above, almost all of them adopt the sieve size and the number of bad points as the classification criteria.

Such as Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Jamaica