A brief introduction to the cultivation of lively and sour Sidamo Shakiso boutique coffee beans, geographical location, climate and altitude

[sun Sidamo]: the bean body is smaller than Longberry and yellowish in green. in the sun drying field of Sidamo, the coffee is placed in the hemp net wooden frame, and the workers take turns to stir the coffee manually in the sun. Xidamo is usually marked with G4 exit. Washing Sidamo is mostly exported to G2 because the treatment process is more perfect.

The coffee beans after harvest must enter the treatment program immediately, otherwise they will begin to ferment, making the coffee beans have a bad smell. There are two methods of treatment: "solarization" and "washing", which will cause different flavors. Sun-dried beans have a complete natural mellow flavor, gentle aroma and more gum; washing rules have a good mellow taste, high aroma and lively sour taste.

[sun Sidamo]: the bean body is smaller than Longberry, and it is yellowish in green. in the sun drying field of Sidamo, the coffee is placed in a hemp net wooden rack, and the workers take turns to stir the coffee manually in the sun. Sidamo is usually marked with G4 exit, while water-washed Sidamo is mostly exported at G2 level because of the better sun treatment process.

[washed Sidamo]: coffee raw bean green is slightly gray, some places are thick and some places are small, the acidity is soft and strong, mellow, sweet and spicy, it is one of the courtyard coffee in the highlands of southern Ethiopia. Unlike ordinary African coffee, Sidamo has clear acidity, smooth taste and delicate floral smell.

1. After picking beans without special screening and treatment, uneven appearance and maturity are mixed together, the process is relatively rough, so the quality of coffee beans is unstable and prone to defective beans.

two。 Coffee farmers usually find an open space near their home to deal with it, so there are often a lot of impurities or dirt on the ground, and coffee is easy to get smelly.

The improved method of tanning, that is, to improve the two shortcomings of the traditional way:

1. When picking beans, only fully ripe crimson coffee cherries are picked. Before exposure, the beans will be screened for defects in the processing plant to make the beans look more average in size and maturity.

two。 Next, use tall wooden frames or whole scaffolding for the sun to avoid the risk of beans smelling on the ground. In the process of exposure, take good care of the beans so that the coffee beans can be evenly exposed to water; every three to five days, coffee workers will manually screen out defective and moldy beans. Therefore, by the end of the exposure, before the beans enter the market to remove the peel and flesh, a bright crimson coffee cherry is already a grade with few defects.

After obtaining the raw coffee beans, sometimes in order to pursue the perfect taste, the final screening will be done, so this sunny Sidamo can reach the highest grade G1.

"Ethiopian Sidamo" is a type of single origin and grows in Arabica coffee in Ethiopia's Sidamo province. Like coffee in most African countries, Ethiopian Sidamo is characterized by small gray beans, but characterized by its rich, spicy, wine or chocolate-like taste and floral aroma. The most distinctive flavors found in all Sidamo coffee are lemon and citrus with bright and crisp acidity. Sidamo Coffee includes Yirgachefe Yega Snow Coffee and guji Coffee, both of which are of high quality.

Water-washed coffee flavor is not easy to have wild flavor, with pure, refreshing characteristics, suitable for City to Full City baking degree; some essential excellent Ethiopian water-washed coffee beans, sometimes can be detected obvious rising lemon, citrus essential oil, jasmine, honey and so on, the sour taste is obvious, mellow and thin. All kinds of mocha beans treated in the sun have wild flavor in the basic flavor, but the degree is more or less different, so it is more suitable for the baking degree from Full City to Vienna. The essence of the excellent sun, mocha beans, its tail will have a clear Hey chocolate flavor, some have a pleasant blueberry-like fermented fruit and red wine-like texture.

The biggest advantage of the area is that the soil fertility is maintained through the circulation of organic matter, using the withered leaves of the surrounding trees or the residual roots of the plants as fertilizer. Therefore, the coffee produced in cities and towns has obvious differences and characteristics. In 2010-2012, it continuously obtained the high score of CR92~94, the authoritative coffee evaluation website in the United States. Thus it can be seen that the raw beans in this area are extraordinary.

Analyze two different [raw bean] treatment methods:

The coffee beans after harvest must enter the treatment program immediately, otherwise they will begin to ferment, making the coffee beans have a bad smell. There are two methods of treatment: "solarization" and "washing", which will cause different flavors. Sun-dried beans have a complete natural mellow flavor, gentle aroma and more gum; washing rules have a good mellow taste, high aroma and lively sour taste.