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Characteristics of Costa Rican Faramy Fine Coffee beans treated with Black SHB Honey

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Honey treatment is actually not complicated, do not be dizzy because of all kinds of red, orange, yellow and black honey, let's briefly talk about the difference of all kinds of honey. The so-called honey treatment does not mean that honey is added in the process of coffee bean processing, nor does it mean that coffee must have the taste of honey, but that the color of coffee beans in the drying process looks like the color of honey, because the degree of treatment is different. Honey.

Yellow honey: about 40% of the pectin is removed; the drying method requires the most direct heat absorption, receives the most light drying, and lasts for about 8 days to reach a stable water content.

Red honey: about 25% of the pectin is removed; it takes longer to dry than yellow honey, and reduces direct exposure to sunlight, even in shading sheds, lasting about 12 days.

Black honey: hardly remove pectin; dry for the longest time, lasting at least 2 weeks, with a cover to avoid too strong sunlight, prevent drying too fast, and make sugar conversion more fully.

Why does it cause different degrees of "honey"? First of all, we have to recall that after the coffee cherry is picked, the pulp will be removed before the coffee seeds inside can be obtained. after drying and shelling, the coffee is raw beans. In the process of removing the pulp, the water washing method does not retain the pulp, it is dried after the fermentation water is washed, and the raw coffee beans are peeled after drying. On the other hand, the honey treatment retains part of the pulp for drying. In the drying process, due to the different amount of pulp retained, the color is different. The more the pulp is retained, the darker the color is. Generally speaking, yellow honey treatment retains 30-40% pulp, red honey treatment retains 50-60% flesh, and black honey treatment retains 70-80% flesh. What if there's more? That is directly without the flesh of the sun treatment.

It is not easy, we finally let several different estates of Costa Rica red honey treatment, black honey treatment and sun treatment arrived at the same time, the three coffee roasting degrees are relatively shallow, but also suitable for experienced coffee lovers to do cup test use, horizontal comparison can more intuitively understand the flavor characteristics of various honey treatments. As for the yellow honey treatment, generally speaking, the so-called Costa Rican honey-treated coffee refers to the yellow honey treatment, which is relatively easy to buy, and we have not recommended it on the shelves yet.

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