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Coffee trees introduce how to grow good coffee fruit sources from seeds to fruits.
Coffee is a perennial evergreen shrub or small tree of Rubiaceae, which is a horticultural perennial cash crop. Wild coffee trees can grow to a height of 5-10 meters, but coffee trees planted on manors are often cut to a height of less than 2 meters in order to increase the amount of fruit and facilitate harvesting. Coffee trees will bloom, depending on the origin, about February-March (Northern Hemisphere) or June-July (South).
Roasting experience sharing in-depth analysis of coffee roasting skills and basics
Roasted coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of raw coffee beans into roasted coffee products. The roasting process causes raw beans to expand and change their color, taste, smell and density, resulting in the special flavor of coffee. Unroasted coffee beans and roasted coffee beans contain similar acidity, protein and caffeine, but lack their good taste. The process needs enough heat to speed up beauty.
Coffee roasting knowledge Coffee roasters need to master the skills to accurately adjust the curve
The baker is a key figure in the soul, just like a chef, how to cook a delicious and exquisite dish is all in his hands. Before buying raw beans, the baker must understand the flavor and condition of coffee beans. He must also have considerable experience and judgment, just like buying ingredients, hand-select defective beans, raw bean processing plant after the purchase of coffee.
Hard coffee planting tips for a cup of coffee
Geographically, there are three global coffee growing areas: East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, and Latin America. Coffee grown in different regions has different flavors. The special soil, climatic conditions and planting methods of a country make the coffee produced in that country have a special flavor. French winemakers call this phenomenon regional style. In
Coffee Tree species Segmentation Coffee planting Environment requires in-depth understanding of Coffee
One of the characteristics of a coffee tree is that its fruit can bear fruit several times a year, and another is that flowers and fruits (also known as cherries) coexist at different stages of ripening. The style of the whole coffee industry is influenced by the fickle nature. If the fruit is too ripe, the beans in it will rot. If it is not ripe enough, the beans picked will not ripen by themselves. So bean pickers
Introduction to the planting flavor of Pacamara Saint Emerald Lisa Manor
Pacamara is a variety produced by the mixture of Pacas and Maragogipe, Pacas is a variety of Bourbon, and Magorapaige is a variety of Tibica. In order to obtain the advantages of two excellent variety series, Pacamara is named after the initials of Pacas and Maragogioe. It took 30 years of efforts to successfully produce Pacama in 1980.
Coffee growing tips: Two fungi that affect coffee harvests
Professional barista communication, please pay attention to coffee workshop (Weixin Official Accounts cafe_style) Coffee drinkers may have heard of bourbon, caturra, typica and other coffee varieties. Today we are talking about Lempira, a little-known breed belonging to Catimor. Lemira is a common breed in western Honduras. It's also Hongdu.
Why do many people like to drink sour coffee?
Among my Chinese coffee friends, they sometimes ask if your coffee is sour. Or I don't like sour coffee, etc. At first I was full of doubts and felt very strange, but later I gradually understood that the so-called acid is not that acid. haha, it turns out that Acidity is often used in our coffee tasting terms. Chinese translation is acidity, which is often misunderstood as acidity in acid value or thinking of lemon
What kind of coffee tree is the gift from God? how many kinds of coffee tree are there?
Tasting coffee with excellent flavor, thinking about the issue of universal values, but forgetting the original appearance that was given by God, precious and needs to be cherished. Coffee beans are not born this way, they are crystallized through a lot of hard work. 1. Scientific name: coffe l 2, family name: Rubiaceae 3, genus name: coffee genus 4, origin: tropical and subtropical regions (Africa) 5, morphological features: characters
A detailed introduction to the manors of the eight major coffee varieties
Among the types of coffee, Blue Mountain Coffee is the best coffee, produced in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The Blue Mountains surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, whenever the sun shines directly on the blue water, it reflects to the mountain and emits a bright blue light, hence its name. This kind of coffee has the characteristics of all good coffee, not only full-bodied and mellow, but also because of the perfect combination of sweet, sour and bitter coffee.
Barista skills: making Italian concentration time & grindness and Italian concentrated extraction
Time is the third most important element in the production of espresso. Here time refers to the extraction time, that is, from pressing the extraction key to pressing the stop extraction key. It also determines the success or failure of a cup of concentrate. If you use 20 grams of coffee powder to produce 50 grams of liquid, but you only use 10 seconds, then maybe this cup of concentrated will not taste very good. Now it takes between 22 and 40 seconds to extract and concentrate, and most of it
Channel effect? On the Channel effect in Coffee extraction
Today, I'm going to talk about the channel effect. when I first learned about the channel effect, it was not long before I made coffee, and the coffee powder could not be well distributed in the powder bowl. My teacher often told me that your coffee has a channel. At that time, I was just trying to figure out some superficial things according to the gourd. What's the difference?
The exhaust valve on the coffee bean bag is standard. Why can't you smell the coffee from the valve?
The small hole in the coffee bean bag is an one-way exhaust valve, because after baking coffee beans, it will release carbon dioxide, if you do not install an one-way exhaust valve, it will cause an inflated bag, or even cause an explosion bag, the one-way exhaust valve oxygen can not enter the inner bag, and excess gas can be discharged through it.
Professional coffee roasting | Common defects in coffee roasting
Professional barista communication Please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) see this Coffee Roasting Defects Pictorial in home-barista, see Hunting Xin Xi, and keep it. Although you have to drink the coffee, you can find out a lot of problems by looking at it, and there is no conflict in logic. Derived from Home Roasting Competit
Coffee cup test | how to improve the pressure of drinking coffee?
Professional baristas please pay attention to the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) Coffee is the largest drink in the world. It is estimated that the global coffee consumption in 2015 / 16 is about 147.6 million bags (147.6 million bags, 60 kg / bag), an increase of nearly 2 million bags over the previous year.
The difference between iced coffee and iced coffee distinguishes "iced coffee"
There is an essential difference between ice-drop coffee and ice-cold coffee. Ice-drop (or ice-brewed) coffee and ice-cold or ice-cold coffee seem to be different in one word, but they are essentially different in extraction and cannot be treated in the same way. Ice drop (also known as ice brew) coffee is a coffee beverage extracted by soaking in water below 5 degrees Celsius for a long time at a low temperature. Iced coffee or iced coffee refers to quick extraction with hot water
Professional coffee roasting | how to bake coffee with delicate flavor?
Exchange of professional baristas please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) to write this topic, not to announce that I can do it personally, but to uphold the principles of be humble and open mind, once again review the master's argument, and at the same time find some phenomena that I have observed and corroborate each other. Main quote: The Flick created by Scott Ra
The reason why tap water or mineral water is generally not used for brewing coffee.
Communication of professional baristas Please pay attention to the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) about 98% or 99% of a cup of coffee is water. Like making wine and making tea, only good water quality can show the aroma of coffee. Mineral water is hard water containing minerals, which hinders the release of caffeine and tannin, reducing the taste of coffee. The best way to make coffee is to boil it on a gas stove.
Baking tips: how to easily screen residual beans
I saw on the Internet yesterday that someone asked if the vibrating screen could screen peanuts and coffee beans, and the answer was yes. In the following, some problems and solutions of vibrating screen in screening these two materials are discussed. First of all, customers need to know the number of peanuts and coffee beans, and then choose the appropriate sieve, which is like screening peanut and coffee beans. Its
Attentively make a cup of fine coffee from the most basic understanding of fine coffee
Coffee extraction principle the core process of coffee extraction principle: 1 crushing coffee beans to increase the surface area of coffee in contact with water; 2 coffee powder fully soaked in aqueous solution, coffee essence hydrophilic dissolution; 3 separation of coffee solution and coffee grounds. All modern coffee extraction is the two core processes of soaking and filtration, which belongs to the category of physics, and there is basically no chemical change in the process. Coffee powder