Introduction to the grinding scale of the variety characteristics of the coffee bean flavor description method

Introduction to the grinding scale of the variety characteristics of the coffee bean flavor description method

The three are distinguished according to the time of sun exposure and the amount of pectin, and the amount of pectin and endocarp determines the time of sun exposure. "Yellow honey" is with 25% endocarp, 50% "red honey" and 100% "black honey". Therefore, from "yellow honey" to "black honey", the drying time is longer and the management requirements are more stringent.

If you have to pick out the advantages and disadvantages of the three, the best taste is "black honey", because the endocarp is the most abundant and the taste is richer and stronger. So why produce "yellow honey" and "red honey"? Coffee farmers also need to consider from a commercial point of view, that is to say, to produce "black honey" requires twice as many other kinds of drying beds and requires more time, manpower and energy; and not all buyers have the financial ability to buy "black honey", so the production of "yellow honey" and "red honey" can be said to be a choice for the coffee production environment.

Washing method: the peel, pulp and mucous membrane are removed by washing and fermentation. This method is also known as the complete washing method (Fully Washed). Shampoo is the most common way for most coffee-producing countries in the world to handle Arabica coffee beans. Some areas also use advanced high-pressure washing machines to clean the peel, pulp and mucous membrane of coffee beans, so fermentation is no longer needed. This method of using a high-pressure washing machine to treat coffee beans is called Natural washing (Pulped Natural). Natural sun treatment: retain all substances 22. Honey treatment: remove the peel and pulp and retain some or all mucous membrane (honey) coffee beans: each fruit contains 2 coffee beans (except one pod single bean Peaberry). The fruit of this kind of coffee contains only one coffee bean. Normally, 5% of each batch of coffee beans is a single pod. Coffee beans are dried and processed to bake silver skin (Silver Skin/Chaff): there is a thinner film inside the parchment that surrounds the beans. Because the color is glossy and silvery, people used to call it "silver skin". This layer of silver will fall off during baking. Usually when you grind the coffee, you find some silver crumbs in the coffee powder. These crumbs are the silver peel and Skin/Pulp that cannot be peeled off from the coffee bean during baking: the outermost layer of the coffee bean is wrapped in a berry-like skin and pulp. In addition to the natural sun method, coffee beans treated by other methods must remove the skin and flesh within a few hours after picking. Similar to the cherries we often eat, the difference is that when we eat cherries, we mainly eat the pulp and peel of berries. For coffee, peel and pulp are important by-products. In some places, people use the peel and pulp of coffee to make tea. People in the industry used to call the peel and pulp of coffee "Pulp". The machine used to remove the pulp is called the "desizing machine".