Description of flavor of EXCELSO washed coffee beans in Vera plateau, Colombia, origin of grinding scale

Description of flavor of EXCELSO washed coffee beans in Vera plateau, Colombia, origin of grinding scale

Monsalot is located in the southwest of the Colombian province of Ulla, and most of its farmers grow on a small scale, treating coffee as a staple agricultural product in exchange for cash. The New Millennium Farmers' Association (Grupo Asociativo Productores del Nuevo Milenio) was set up a few years ago to improve the quality of coffee and expect to sell raw beans at higher prices. In addition, in 2005, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Colombian boutique coffee program in the city, introducing American boutique raw bean traders to cooperate with the Millennium Farmers' Association. They sent people to Monsalot to participate in coffee production, and knew that farmers were improving their planting techniques and producing better coffee. In the boutique coffee market, they also provided suggestions on how to position and market.

At present, the New Millennium Peasants' Association has 42 members and can produce about three containers (about 825 bags) of raw coffee beans a year. In order to improve the quality, the New Millennium Peasants' Association continues to recruit new members in Monsalot, hoping to expand the scale of production. In addition, with the assistance of USAID and American traders, they have set up a local cup testing laboratory to teach farmers the method of cup testing, hoping that farmers can pass through the cup to judge the quality of coffee, which will be helpful to coffee production.

The main varieties of Colombian coffee are small grains of coffee. Plants are small trees or large shrubs, 5-8 m tall, usually much branched at base; old branches gray-white, nodes dilated, young branches glabrous, compressed. Leaves thinly leathery, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 6-14 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, acuminate part 10-15 mm long, base cuneate or slightly obtuse, rarely rounded, entire or shallowly wavy, both surfaces glabrous, lower vein axils with or without small pores; midrib raised on both surfaces of leaf, 7-13 on each side of lateral veins; petiole 8-15 mm long Stipules broadly triangular, arising from the tip of the upper part of the young branch conical or awn tip, the tip of the old branch is often protruding tip, 3-6 mm long. Cymes several clustered in leaf axils, each with 2-5 flowers, without a total pedicel or with a very short peduncle; flowers fragrant, with pedicels 0.5-1 mm long; bracts basally ±connate, dimorphic, of which 2 are broadly triangular, nearly equal in length and width, the other 2 lanceolate, twice as long as wide, leaf-shaped; calyx tubular.

No matter in terms of yield or texture, Colombian coffee is first produced by Medellin, which is characterized by full granules, rich nutrition, moderate acidity, good balance, rich aroma and soft taste. In addition to Medellin, the capitals of two neighboring provinces in the south, Armenia and Manizales, are also famous coffee producers, which formerly belonged to Medellin's province of Andiquio, which had a Caldas football team that played in the last Toyota Cup. These three places have formed the world-famous "coffee zone".