An introduction to the characteristics, flavor and taste of Tanzania coffee beans suitable for blending.

Tanzania's main coffee-producing area is located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, which has rich volcanic soil. Some coffee trees planted here are more than 100 years old. The earliest coffee was first introduced from Kenya by Christians. Coffee trees must be carefully cared for, weeded and fertilized. Old branches must also be cut off to grow new branches to maintain the quality of coffee beans, coffee beans processing plant equipment is quite perfect; coffee beans are an important cash crop in Tanzania, the local government attaches great importance to this industry.

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Kilimanjaro coffee is a large coffee bean of uniform size, gray green in color, with a strong sour and sweet aroma, excellent flavor. Medium-baked will emit sweet and light sour, deep-baked will produce a soft bitter taste, suitable for blending.

brewing method

Kilimanjaro coffee is mainly suitable for blending, you can make your own blend or make a variety of fancy coffee.

Single item production:

Brewing: To brew a good cup of coffee, in addition to fresh coffee powder and slightly harder water, there must be a handy brewing tool. There are three main types of coffee brewing machines commonly used.

Drip filter: wet coffee powder with water, let coffee liquid to fall naturally through the filter cloth or filter paper speed, flow to the container. Basically, this method does not soak the coffee powder, just let the hot water slowly pass through the coffee powder. Drip cups and electric coffee machines belong to this category, is the simplest brewing tool, can brew clean and bright color coffee.

Follicular: coffee powder into the pot, soaked in hot water for a few minutes, and then filtered by filter cloth or filter to form a cup of coffee liquid.

Siphon pot, drip pot, Belgian coffee pot and Vietnamese coffee pot, etc., all belong to follicular brewing tools, they all have a soaking process, thus forming a more complex taste.

High-pressure coffee: Pressurized hot water is used to penetrate the compacted coffee powder to produce a thick cup of coffee. Tools in this form include mocha pots and espresso machines.

Fast brewing method: can use Italian espresso machine, faster coffee brewing method. Espresso machine can continuously extract several cups of coffee, the high pressure in the boiling process can dissolve the oil and colloid in the coffee beans, the essence of the beans is completely extracted through pressure, making the brewed coffee more concentrated, taste and aroma better.

Mixing:

First: choose good quality coffee beans, because the use of poor quality coffee beans, of course, will greatly reduce the flavor of coffee, even if the production of a very balanced coffee, but also can not make delicious coffee, choose good quality coffee beans, is the biggest point.

Second: eliminate defective beans, mixed with defective beans, the taste will deteriorate. Therefore, it is better to remove the defective beans without being stingy. For example, long worms with holes, abnormal development, shell without kernel, all picked out.

Third: understand the characteristics of coffee beans, if the individual characteristics of coffee beans to be mixed are not very well understood, it is difficult to mix good or expected coffee, such as mocha coffee sour heavy, can not be used to dilute the sour coffee.

Fourth: understand the different degrees of roasting, different coffee beans by the degree of roasting different, its flavor is also different, so also a good grasp, such as Kilimanjaro, Blue Mountain is generally light roasting, carbon burning is deep roasting and so on.

Fancy coffee production: fancy coffee variety, to Japanese cappuccino as an example to introduce.

First, make Kilimanjaro coffee beans into hot coffee.

Pour hot water into a coffee cup, warm the coffee cup for 20-30 seconds, and then dry it.

3. Put the fine sugar in a coffee cup. Pour in hot coffee without stirring.

4. Cover the foamed cream from the edge of the cup to the center of the circle in a spiral manner on the coffee surface. To cause to assume a spiral pattern.

5. Sprinkle cinnamon powder and lemon peel crumbs at last. Serve