Costa Rican Coffee-- description of Flavor and planting Environment

Although Costa Rica has won the recognition of coffee gluttons through honey-treated coffee beans, it is also closely related to Costa Rica's superior geographical and climatic conditions, and the selection of Arabica varieties of coffee. Costa Rica's high-quality coffee beans are called "very hard beans" (SHB), and the quality of hard beans (HB) and slightly hard beans (SH) decline in turn, and this is also the way it is graded. Extremely hard beans grow at an altitude of more than 1500 meters, and altitude always represents the quality of coffee, and high altitude means better quality. In addition, due to the sufficient rainfall caused by the drop at high altitude, it is very beneficial to the growth of coffee trees; and the low temperature at night at high altitude makes the trees grow slowly, so that the coffee fruit can better absorb more nutrients. The flavor of coffee is also richer. Costa Rican boutique coffee only began to emerge in the past decade. Although Costa Rica introduced coffee from Cuba as early as 1729 and carried out commercial cultivation, it made great efforts to develop the coffee bean industry. But it mainly produces and distributes mixed coffee beans and Italian commercial beans for export to its nearest neighbor, the United States, which is one of the largest coffee consumers. Because of this, the quality of Costa Rican coffee beans at that time had not yet reached the level of fine coffee. Moreover, due to the poor quality of coffee beans, Costa Rica does not have a national standard (a national standard for regulating the grade of raw coffee beans), because its country is not qualified to evaluate it.

Until later, Costa Rica in order to strengthen the export of high-quality coffee to Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries. Just began to vigorously develop high-quality coffee and increase the added value of coffee exports. At the same time, the government has set up a "coffee trust fund" to help coffee farmers in need tide over their financial difficulties and cultivate high-quality coffee. And in order to make coffee have better quality and characteristics, we used the popular honey treatment method in recent years to change the reputation of poor quality coffee. Therefore, the Costa Rican boutique coffee we are now exposed to is the fine processed honey beans of each of its estates. However, there are still ordinary sun-treated coffee beans, but the quality and flavor of Costa Rican boutique coffee is developing rapidly, with mild acidity, soft taste and sweet and high-quality berry flavor treated with honey. it's something to be reckoned with. And the so-called honey treatment method: refers to the coffee beans in the washing method to remove the peel and flesh of the step, select the remaining part of the pectin pulp to carry out a fermentation process, this treatment is honey treatment. According to the amount of remaining pectin meat, there are different flavors and names. For example, Costa Rica with yellow honey has about 25% pectin left over, red honey is about 50%, and black honey retains about 80% of pectin flesh. The most obvious difference between them is that they are sweeter from yellow, red and black. Coupled with the rich fruit rhyme, it is deeply loved by the coffee gluttons.