Costa Rica Black Honey treatment Water content Coffee Bean Flavor description Grinding scale Variety treatment

Costa Rican black honey treatment of water content coffee bean flavor description grinding scale variety treatment method

Costa Rican coffee has always been regarded as a perfect type of classic flavor, balanced, clean and mild is his tone. San Juan Youzhuang, a processing plant in the western valley, comes from a famous orange county (Naranjo), and is famous for its excellent natural geographical conditions and excellent regional planting and management techniques. it has almost perfect classical flavor and lively citrus flavor in acidity. BlackBerry fruit aroma, acidity and taste thick, melon sweet taste smooth, drupe / micro-flower aroma, while the finish has a significant coffee flower aroma, is a taste of coffee full of Latin country style. Its flavor features brown sugar, floral aroma, almonds, black tea, oranges and sweet spices, mild acidity, syrup taste and a good finish.

The natural treatment process of French Sika is quite laborious. The artificially picked high-sugar coffee fruit is first placed in an African viaduct in the sun for about 10 days, and then placed in a plastic-covered greenhouse to create more direct heat and continue to dry. until the water content reaches 11.5%. The slow drying process allows raw beans to develop more natural sweetness from the inside, but it also needs to be taken care of more carefully and constantly turned. In the end, the red cherries turn black, giving off the aroma of fruitcake, black sugar and even sherry. This is the "Perla Negra"!

There are eight Costa Rican producing areas, of which Tarazu, the Central Valley and the Western Valley are recognized as the three best producing areas. Las Lajas is located in the foothills of Sabanilla de Alajuela and Poas Volcano in the Central Valley. Strictly speaking, "Lajas" is actually the name of the Chakon family processing plant. The name of the manor is Finca La Mirella, but bean bakers around the world are also accustomed to calling it Finca las lajas Lajas. It is also the first manor in Central America to start honey treatment and natural sun treatment. Tanning is a very traditional practice, which uses the least resources, but because there are too many uncontrollable factors, it is very difficult to do well. Francesca has added many innovations, such as using the sugar meter (Brix meter), which is often equipped in the wine industry, to measure the sugar content of the fruit, and to determine the best time and treatment of harvest according to the sugar content of Brix. Only those with more than 20% sweetness will be exposed to the sun. The Brix value of general fruit is 14 for apple, 12 for lemon and 18 for passion fruit, but the coffee cherry in Lajas can reach 21 / 22%.

In the treatment of raw coffee beans, Costa Rica's Meil treatment (also known as honey treatment) has its own characteristics. Lao Li also recently got the beans treated with Costa Rican red honey to supplement the unique method of Costa Rican Meil processing.

The treatment of honey:

After removing the peel and pulp, the coffee beans with pectin are dried. The key to distinguishing between different honey treatments lies in the remaining pectin: the proportion of retained pectin, drying time and drying method.

The characteristics of honey treatment:

When picking, test the sugar content first and pick only coffee fruits with a sugar content of 210.22%. Honey treatment is different from other processing methods and should be dried on AFRICAN BED (tanning bed). If it dries directly on the cement or on the land, it is easy to scratch the coffee beans when turned, resulting in bacterial damage. Direct soil exposure can also give coffee beans an earthy taste.

The taste difference between honey treatment and washing treatment:

Higher sweetness, higher sugar content and higher alcohol thickness than washing (under the premise of the same baking degree)

Honey-treated beans need to be well ventilated when they are dry, otherwise the retained pectin mucosa is easy to ferment or mildew and cause bad smell.