An introduction to the description of the flavor and taste of coffee producing areas in the altitude highlands of Honduras

An introduction to the description of the flavor and taste of coffee producing areas in the altitude highlands of Honduras

There are 280000 hectares of coffee plantations in Honduras, dominated by small coffee merchants, most of which are less than 3.5ha, accounting for 60 per cent of Hongguo's production. In the coffee garden, people collect coffee beans by hand, and then carefully handle and process them to meet the needs of the market and meet the different tastes of consumers. In recent years, Honduras collects about 3 million bags of coffee every year, providing the world with perfect coffee, unique coffee aroma and quality, and has become the second largest coffee exporter in Central America and the tenth largest coffee exporter in the world.

What is there to miss about coffee in this turbulent country? Honduran coffee does not have very distinctive characteristics. Its biggest feature is that the overall taste is rich and well-balanced.

Medium or shallow acidity, giving the impression of obvious but not strong. Sometimes it has a beautiful floral or fruity aroma (generally speaking, beans produced in different regions and at different elevations have different performances). It is not at all associated with the unrest of the country. Bitterness and obvious sweetness. The overall taste of Honduran coffee is balanced, sour and bitter are not so strong, and there is a good balance between the two.

The granules of coffee beans in Honduras are large in shape, uniform in size and glossy in color. In order to facilitate harvesting, farmers will prune the coffee trees to no more than 150 centimeters, because if they grow too high, they have to set up ladders to pick, which is not only time-consuming, but also may damage the trees by bending branches. As the ripening period of each fruit of coffee beans is different, in order to maintain the good quality of coffee beans, it is necessary to pick them manually, and then select the ripe fruits. For coffee fruits of the same branch, it often takes several weeks to pick them all.

High-quality coffee in Honduras uses water washing to deal with coffee beans, usually after soaking, when the defective fruit will surface, it can be discarded first. Then put the good fruit into the fruit peeling machine and peel off the peel with the rotating force of the machine. Peeled fruits are screened by machines to select fruits of high quality. Usually the bigger the fruit, the better the maturity. Coffee in Honduras is dried in the sun, so there is always a hint of fruit in the taste.

Honduran coffee has a rich and mellow taste, taste is not astringent, not sour, mellow and aroma are very high, quite personality. Honduran coffee can lead to multiple levels of flavor depending on the degree of roasting. Moderate baking can maximize the sweetness of beans, while deep baking increases bitterness, but sweetness does not disappear. Generally speaking, medium roasting has the best taste, has rich and unique aroma, and is favored by coffee lovers in Honduras.