Fine Coffee Roasting Steps of Robusta Beans Flavor Description

Fine Coffee Roasting Steps of Robusta Beans Flavor Description

If you ask the world's most beloved Robusta bean country or region, the first place is the hometown of espresso coffee "Italy"! If you narrow it down further, more precisely, the largest use of Robusta beans is in southern Italy, such as Palermo, Naples and Sicilia. In fact, in southern Italy, most of the coffee people drink contains a considerable proportion of Robusta beans.

30 to 60 percent is common, and some formula beans contain as much as 80 or even 100 percent Robusta!

Open up the list of beans supplied by local Italian green coffee wholesalers and you will see a list of dozens or even more than two dozen varieties of Robusta green beans from coffee producing areas around the world for local coffee roasters to choose from. This phenomenon does not exist in other parts of the world, such as the United States and Canada, northern Europe, Japan and even Taiwan, and it is incredible.

Arabica coffee beans grow at higher elevations in the tropics, where it is cooler. The lower elevations, where Arabica beans do not grow, are the home of Robusta.

Robusta is planted in lowlands at an altitude of 200-600 meters, likes warm climate, requires temperature of 24 - 29℃, and does not require high rainfall, but the variety depends on insects or wind to transmit pollen, so coffee takes 9-11 months from pollination to fruit, which is longer than Arabica.

Arabica beans are like earthlings, easy to see and familiar to all of us. Robusta beans are like aliens. Although they have the appearance of Earthlings, they are actually completely different inside. Earthlings and aliens have their own advantages and disadvantages, each good at winning the field, although they are different races, can not marry and have children, but through the delicate arrangement, put them together cleverly cut off, full cooperation, can contribute their own strengths, stir up surprising sparks

Why is Robusta notorious? Robusta beans, which are round in appearance and look like soybeans at first glance, are also known as stout beans. They have strong disease resistance, large yield and low price. The boutique coffee world has a very poor impression of Robusta in the past because it usually doesn't

Delicate and charming flavor. The bigger problem is that because the setting is a low-priced product, the planting treatment method is mostly extremely rough, resulting in defects and smells. It often has an earthy, dirty smell, and sometimes even a smell similar to burned tires and burning plastic.

Ten years ago I had the opportunity to taste several cheap Vietnamese Robusta beans, some of which were memorable because they were like burnt wheat tea with tire seasoning, along with nine other flaws that made me vomit and never want to drink again.