Introduction to the flavor and taste of Ethiopian coffee beans grading of Ethiopian coffee beans

Ethiopian beans look a little malnourished. But "beans" can not be seen, Ethiopian coffee has the most citrus aroma in the world, whether it is instant coffee or freshly ground coffee, you can smell the aroma of orange or lemon when you extract it. The nose is characterized by strong floral, fruity, sour and sweet aromas, but the alcohol is slightly thicker or less dense. The biggest disadvantage is that it is easy to bake unevenly, especially sun-dried beans. Even the best Grade3 Harald sun-dried beans often show uneven color, which is the biggest defect of Ethiopian beans, but the good thing is that it does not affect its good flavor. For coffee fans, you don't have to worry about what the beans look like, it's the most important thing. The stability of Ethiopian water-washed beans is much better than that of sun-dried beans, whose flavor fluctuates greatly every year, so be sure to test it several times before buying in large quantities. If you buy good sun-dried beans, their flavor is much deeper than water-washed beans, but if you buy improperly handled sun-dried beans, it will certainly make people speechless. This is the feeling of many coffee fans how many Arabica species there are in Ethiopia. Even the official research unit of Ethiopia does not know. The coffee cooperatives in this mountain are certainly different from those planted in another mountain, and even small farmers in the same region grow different varieties of coffee. It has been estimated that there are at least 2000 varieties of Ethiopian coffee and even more than 4500 kinds of coffee. Compared with Bourbon 'SL28', the main variety next to Kenya to the south, or the fat posture of Tibica in Central and South America and Asia, Ethiopian beans are easier to recognize, the beans are mostly small and pointed long beans, the so-called' longberry', and often mixed with small oval-shaped short beans, the so-called 'shortberry', looks uneven in size and uneven. The commercial bulk beans of Grade4 or Grade5 are mostly mixed with hundreds of different seeds in different regions, so the uneven appearance of beans is the most obvious, and it is not easy to bake even Ethiopian coffee beans into five grades. The first and second stages are washed beans. Washed beans Grade1 represents 3 defective beans per 300g raw beans, and Grade2 represents 4 defective beans per 300g. Gradc1 grade water washed beans are very rare and are generally difficult to buy. At present, all the washed beans exported from Ethiopia are Grade2 grade. The quality of sun-dried beans is in the order of Grade3, Grade4 or Grade5. Although the defective beans in Grade4 are much less than those in Grade5, coffee farmers claim that in order to save tax on exports, they often lower the quality of Grade4 to Grade5 in order to save money. This may just be a marketing tactic. In fact, the quality of Grade5 is not as good as that of Gradc4.