Description of coffee flavor characteristics and aroma in Saint Roman, a Costa Rican coffee producer with a huge coffee consumption.

Costa Rica's coffee industry, formerly controlled by the Instituto del Café de Costa Rica (ICAFE), has been taken over by the Official Coffee Council (Oficin del Café). Among coffee exports, those deemed substandard are colored with blue vegetable dye before being recycled for domestic sale. Coffee consumed domestically (dyed blue or undyed) accounts for about 10% of total production, and local coffee consumption per capita is twice that of Italy or the United States.

This coffee producer, all grades and varieties, accounts for one-third of global consumption and a share of the global coffee market.

Although Costa Rica faces natural disasters several times higher than other regions, its arable area is enough to compensate.

There are many kinds of coffee here, but its industrial policy is large and cheap, so there are not many excellent coffee, but it is a good choice to mix other coffees.

One of the most famous is Mountain Costa Coffee, which tastes mellow and neutral. It can be boiled directly or mixed with other kinds of coffee beans. It is also a good choice.

Other types of Brazilian coffee, such as Rio, Parana, etc., can be produced in large quantities without too much care. Although the taste is rough, it is a kind of inexpensive coffee. Due to its distribution in all parts of the country, the solid quality varies, and there are its own standards (NO.2~NO.8 according to the number of impurities, NO.13~NO.19 according to the size of beans, divided into six grades according to taste). Almost all Arabica varieties are of good quality and stable prices, the most famous being Costa Rica, which has been a necessity for blended coffee since ancient times and is familiar to the public.

Costa Rica's terrain is flat on the coast and isolated by rugged mountains in the middle. It declared an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles. The climate is tropical and subtropical, and partly neotropical. [3]

Costa Rica's climatic conditions are completely different, completely reversing the classification of the four seasons of the year. There are only two seasons here, April to December is the rainy season with much rainfall, and the end of December to April is the dry season, also known as summer. The annual average temperature in San José ranges from 15 ° C to 26 ° C; temperatures in the coastal areas are relatively high, with an average night temperature of 21 ° C and an average daily temperature of 30 ° C in the Caribbean. [3]

Costa Rica occupies only 0.03% of the world's land area, but it is home to nearly 4% of the world's species, making it one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. 26 per cent of the country is designated as national parks or nature reserves, including 11 wetlands, 2 biological reserves and 3 World Heritage sites. Forest cover is 52 per cent of the country.

Natural resources include iron, manganese, mercury, bauxite, gold and silver, among which bauxite, iron and coal reserves amount to 150 million tons, 400 million tons and 50 million tons respectively. Recent developments are mainly distributed in the central golden belt region of the Tilaran Cordillera in the northwest. Calcium carbonate ore is distributed in the northwest and has a higher grade. The purity of calcium carbonate extracted from limestone can reach 99.5%. Costa Rica attaches great importance to environmental protection and the exploitation of natural resources is severely restricted.

Oil is completely imported, mainly from Colombia and other countries, monopolized by RECOPE, with an average annual import of 3 million tons of crude oil. Since 2012, the National Oil Company has suspended crude oil refining production due to aging facilities, and fuel oil has been imported entirely. In 2013, Costa Rica imported 19.3 million barrels of oil, which amounted to US $2.3 billion, accounting for 5.5% of GDP.

Located about 30 kilometers northeast of San Jose, Costa Rica's capital, this research center belongs to the Costa Rica Coffee Association, which is Costa Rica's national coffee planting, breeding and quality inspection research institution. In addition, it also has 10 hectares of experimental fields planted with many excellent varieties. Coffee is Costa Rica's main agricultural product, with an annual output of more than 2 million bags (60 kg) and an export earnings of 250 million US dollars, second only to pineapples and bananas.

In Costa Rica, Arabica coffee trees are grown, improved, the quality of coffee beans is better and more stable; in order to facilitate picking, coffee trees are continuously pruned to maintain a height of about 2 meters; people eat coffee is the fruit of the seeds released by water brewing flavor. After picking the green coffee beans, the seeds (i.e. coffee beans) can only be roasted after removing the peel, pulp, seed membrane and sunlight exposure. Some processes can be replaced by machines, which increases the speed of coffee production. However, there is no machine to pick coffee. It must be manually used.

Costa Rican coffee is full of particles, with ideal acidity and unique aroma.