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Introduction of Honduran Coffee Flavor in the Coffee production area of Honduras

Published: 2024-09-20 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/20, Although there are no distinct characteristics of Honduran coffee, its biggest feature is its rich and balanced taste as a whole. In detail, it has a medium or shallow acidity, which is obvious but not strong. Sometimes with a slight floral or fruity aroma (generally speaking, different producing areas, different elevations of beans have different flavor performance) slightly bitter and obvious sweet.

Although Honduras coffee does not have very distinct characteristics, but the overall taste is rich and balanced is its biggest feature. In detail, it has moderate or light acidity, giving a distinct but not intense feeling. Sometimes with a slight floral or fruity aroma (generally different regions, different altitudes of beans have different flavor performance) slightly bitter and obvious sweet back. Honduras taste overall balanced, acid and bitter are not strong, the balance between the two is excellent. Therefore, Honduran coffee's extremely balanced characteristics make it widely used. It can be used to blend coffee, but also as a single product to brew, with Honduran coffee to make a blend of Italian espresso will have a commendable flavor to show Honduras produced two very good quality coffee, one is grown at an altitude of 1000~1500 meters "highland coffee", the other is grown at an altitude of 1500~2000 meters on behalf of Honduras's highest level of "selected highland coffee", Most of the coffee is exported to the United States and Germany. In Honduras, the coffee producing area is divided into six regions, located in the west and south: Santa Barbara, El Paraiso, Copan, La Paz, Comayagua and Olancho. The average planting height is more than 1100 meters. Coffee varieties are Arabica, 69% belong to HG "high coffee" grade, 12% belong to SHG "special highland coffee", 19% belong to CS. There are mainly Types, Bourbon, Caturra, Villa Sarch and Lempira varieties of high-quality coffee in Honduras. The coffee beans are treated by water washing method. Generally, they must be soaked first. When soaking, the defective fruits will surface and can be discarded first. The good fruit is then placed in a fruit peeler and peeled off by the rotating force of the machine. The peeled fruits are screened by machines to select excellent quality fruits. Usually larger fruits represent better maturity. Honduran coffee is sun-dried, so it always has a light fruity taste

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