Introduction to the characteristics of Costa Rican Coffee Flavor Manor

1502 C. Columbus discovered the Costa Rican coast on his fourth voyage. Since then, Spanish settlers have invaded many times.

Cartago City was built in 1563, Costa Rica became a Spanish colony and was placed under the jurisdiction of the Governor General of Guatemala. During colonial rule, under the cruel slavery and oppression of Spanish colonists, the Indians were almost wiped out, and there was very little labor available for slavery. The Spanish had to cultivate their own small plots of land and produce their own agricultural products. Costa Rica had long been poor, ignorant and isolated. In the 1948 general election, J. M. H. Figueres Ferrer, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, launched a civil war, seized power, set up a ruling council (see Costa Rica Civil War), and the People's Pioneer Party was declared illegal.

In 1949 Figueres Ferrer handed over power to the elected leader of the National League, O. Urat Blanco.

In October 1951, Figueres Ferrer founded the National Liberation Party.

Of the six general elections held between 1953 and 1978, the National Liberation Party won four. During the party's administration, it emphasized state intervention in the economy, nationalized some industries, raised import taxes to protect national industries, forced the United Fruit Company to increase income taxes; strengthened relations with other Latin American countries and Western Europe, changed its dependence on the United States alone, joined the Central American Common Market in 1963, and established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and some countries in Eastern Europe in the 1970s.

In 1978, R. Carazo Odio, leader of the Solidarity Party, was elected president. In order to ease domestic contradictions, he adopted measures such as austerity spending and increased social welfare, while proposing to restrict state capital and encourage foreign and private investment.

In February 1982, L.A. Monge Alvarez, leader of the National Liberation Party, was elected president.

In February 2010, Chinchilla won the election and became the first female president in Costa Rica's history. Costa Rica's climate conditions are completely different, completely overturning the classification of the four seasons of the year. There are only two seasons here. April to December is the rainy season, with much rainfall. From the end of December to April of the following year is the dry season, also known as summer. The annual average temperature in San Jose, the capital, ranges from 15 ° C to 26 ° C; temperatures in coastal areas are relatively high, with an average of 21 ° C at night and 30 ° C at day in the Caribbean.

Coffee is an important source of income for Costa Rica, introduced in 1808 and cultivated for 200 years. Costa Rica has a third of the population invested

Costa Ricans say coffee has changed the country, and has contributed significantly to creating a rich environment. Although Costa Rica is the third largest country in Central America, it has a better economic environment than half the other countries. Because of its rich population and stable society, Costa Rica has more than 30 national parks, with rich coffee grains, ideal acidity and unique aroma. Costa Rica's coffee industry, formerly controlled by the Instituto del Café de Costa Rica (ICAFE), has been taken over by the Official Coffee Council (Oficin del Café). Among coffee exports, those deemed substandard are colored with blue vegetable dye before being recycled for domestic sale. Coffee consumed domestically (dyed blue or undyed) accounts for about 10% of the total production. The local per capita coffee consumption is twice that of Italy or the United States. Other types of Brazilian coffee, such as Rio and Parana, can be produced in large quantities without much care. Although they taste rough, they are a good and inexpensive coffee. Because they are distributed all over the country, their solid quality varies and they have their own standards.(NO.2~NO.8 according to the amount of impurities, NO.13~NO.19 according to the size of beans, divided into six grades according to taste). Almost all Arabica varieties are of good quality and stable prices, the most famous being Costa Rica, which has been a necessity for blended coffee since ancient times and is familiar to the public.

Excellent Costa Rican coffee is known as "extra hard beans" and can grow at altitudes above 1500 meters. Altitude has always been a problem for coffee growers. The higher the altitude, the better the beans, not only because higher altitudes increase the acidity of the beans and thus enhance the flavor, but also because the lower night temperatures at higher altitudes can slow down the growth of trees and thus enhance the flavor of the beans. In addition, due to the high altitude drop caused by sufficient rainfall, coffee tree growth is very favorable