Flavor and taste characteristics of moderate and deep roasting of Honduran coffee beans

Flavor and taste characteristics of moderate and deep roasting of Honduran coffee beans

Honduras is less well-known in the consumer market because it does not have strong support in the handling and transportation of raw beans. However, in recent years, the country has begun to change dramatically, and the emphasis on the coffee industry has slowly opened up the international popularity of coffee from Honduras.

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.

Deep baking, comparatively speaking, has a more bitter and sweet flavor. The aroma extracted from coffee beans is proportional to the baking time.

The deeper the baking, the less caffeine and acidity. The color of deep-roasted coffee beans ranges from satin chocolate to oily brown and black. The deeper the baking, the more scorched you taste, and the lighter the flavor of the coffee bean itself.

Especially deep-roasted coffee beans will have a smoky taste, which is more suitable for ordinary coffee than Italian espresso.