Description and treatment of taste and flavor of Tarazhu coffee red honey in Costa Rica

Description and treatment of taste and flavor of Tarazhu coffee red honey in Costa Rica

After peeling, the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit are recovered as feed for livestock, or converted into organic fertilizer, as well as coffee bean dryer fuel. It can be said that in every process of coffee production, Costa Rica complies with the requirements of maintaining the natural environment.

Among the many excellent producing areas in Costa Rica, there is a famous producing area that stands out-Tarazu (Tarrazu), also known as Tarasu. Tarazhu is very famous in the world of boutique coffee and is one of the major coffee producing areas in the world. In the 2014 COE competition, of the 23 beans on the list, 17 came from Tarasu. Tarasu is located in the fertile volcanic region of Central America, which has a humid climate and fertile volcanic soil, abundant rainfall throughout the year, high altitude, and dense forest natural shade, providing a unique growth environment for coffee growth. Pesticides or artificial fertilizers are not used in the planting process. Nearly 95% of the coffee beans produced in Tarazhu Alpine are very hard beans (SHB), which generally grow above 1500 meters above sea level.

In recent years, a new "honey" treatment method has become popular, because there is no need to invest in huge sinks and drying fields, so that many independent manors or small cooperatives can afford it. Some highly skilled and daring manor owners apply this new treatment method. A kind of honey-treated coffee with high sweetness, low acidity and complex taste has become the goal of the coffee industry in recent years. One of the best in recent years in the major competitions, so as to greatly enhance the popularity of the manor, Don Mayo is one of them.

The key to honey treatment lies in the amount of pulp retained. The more it is retained, the more obvious the characteristics of honey treatment will be. However, the risk of excessive fermentation will be higher, and the characteristics of each "Honey cofffee" will be different due to different conditions, such as the local climate (sunshine / rainfall probability / air humidity), or the processor's preference.

Stariga has a deep coffee culture, superb coffee skills, and produces world-class high-quality coffee. Costa Rica is an excellent coffee producer, both in terms of its innate environmental advantages and its acquired efforts to produce quality coffee. Although Costa Rica ranks third from the bottom in terms of land area in Central America, its economic environment is better than that of half of the countries. Colombians say that it is coffee that has changed the country and enabled people to enjoy a rich environment. Coffee has indeed made an outstanding contribution to this country, and it is the industrious coffee people who have created excellent coffee.