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Boutique coffee beans Ethiopia Yega Xuefei

Boutique coffee beans Ethiopia Yega Xuefei

Although the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee is petite, it is gentle and delicate and sweet. As the hometown of coffee, thousands of years of planting history and processing tradition in Ethiopia have created high-quality washed Arabica beans. Light baking has unique sweet aromas of lemon, flowers and honey, soft acidity and citrus flavors, fresh and bright on the palate. Without

World boutique coffee producing area El Salvador Parkmara Coffee

World boutique coffee producing area El Salvador Parkmara Coffee

El Salvador: Parkmara coffee flavor and taste characteristics: mild taste, good texture. El Salvador, located in the northwest of Central America and bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the south, is one of the birthplaces of the ancient Mayan civilization. The nearby volcanoes, plateaus, lakes and bathing beaches along the Pacific coast are all very pleasant. But nothing makes El Salvador most famous for its unique mouth.

Initial processing requirements of Yunnan Coffee (Arabica species)

Initial processing requirements of Yunnan Coffee (Arabica species)

Technical requirements for the initial processing of small seed (Arabica seed) Coffee 1. There are two processing methods for coffee beans made from fresh coffee fruits, namely wet processing and dry processing. The first and second grade fruits are processed by wet method, and the third grade fruits are processed by dry method in areas without peeling machine and lack of water. 2. Processing technology 2.1 equipment and facilities should be equipped with fresh fruit collection pool and siphon

How to treat fresh coffee fruit into raw coffee beans

How to treat fresh coffee fruit into raw coffee beans

The variety of coffee treated with raw beans certainly determines the natural flavor, but the treatment of raw beans determines the acquired quality. Selected coffee attaches great importance to flavor and quality, so it pays special attention to the technology and details of processing. Harvest: the harvest method is one of the criteria for judging selected coffee. if calculated from the time of germination, Arabica coffee will take about 5 years to blossom and bear fruit. Brazil

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Harvesting and processing of coffee beans

Harvesting and processing of coffee beans

From the coffee-producing countries, we can find that since almost all coffee is produced in countries with more cheap labor, it can be guessed that the process of harvesting coffee beans requires a lot of manpower. Yes, the harvesting of coffee is very hard and requires a lot of manpower, especially in many high-quality coffee, which can only pick fully ripe red cherries from coffee trees.

Take the beans in the sun. Wash and bask in half the sun. Semi-washing

Take the beans in the sun. Wash and bask in half the sun. Semi-washing

Today, I'd like to introduce the way to get beans from coffee: everyone knows citrus. Banana。 Apples and other fruits are rich in organic acids, immature fruits eat sour and astringent taste, ripe fruits taste sweet and delicious, because the organic acids of the fruit are converted into sugar. Coffee should also be picked after it is red and ripe, and the beans are more sweet. If the coffee farmer wants to save trouble, regardless of the coffee fruit

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Processing of fresh coffee beans

Processing of fresh coffee beans

Wet treatment requires the use of specific equipment and a large amount of water. When properly operated, it can ensure that the original quality of coffee beans is better preserved, producing homogeneous coffee beans with few bad beans. As a result, coffee beans produced in this way are generally considered to be of better quality and charge higher prices. Even after careful harvest, a certain amount of underdried and undercooked coffee

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Initial processing and roasting of coffee beans and coffee

Initial processing and roasting of coffee beans and coffee

The harvest time is different in different countries and regions. The harvest process requires a lot of manpower, especially high-quality selected coffee, which can only pick fully ripe red coffee cherries. Because all coffee cherries don't ripen at the same time, you need to go back to the same tree many times to pick. Coffee beans come from a mature seed called coffee cherry (cherries).

Coffee beans Coffee picking

Coffee beans Coffee picking

Coffee trees generally bloom in 3 to 4 years, about 2 to 3 months each year, similar in appearance and smell to jasmine flowers, closely clustered on branches when flowering, flowering 3 to 5 days. After flowering, they bear small green fruit, a few months later mature into red can be picked ripe fruit. Ripe fruit skin red, due to shape and color similar to cherry, many places called ripe coffee fruit coffee cherry

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Coffee berries are picked and dried.

Coffee berries are picked and dried.

The coffee beans we are talking about are actually the seeds of a fruit similar to cherries. Coffee trees produce berries, called coffee berries, whose bright red color means they are ripe and ready to be picked. The fruit clustered on the branches. The outer skin (exocarp) of coffee berries is thick and bitter. However, the fruit (mesocarp) inside is very sweet and has the texture of grapes. And then there's parenchyma, which is like

Processing of coffee beans production of high-quality coffee beans

Processing of coffee beans production of high-quality coffee beans

Sun-dried coffee beans [Pirajui in Sao Paulo, Brazil] there are two ways to prepare coffee beans for roasting. The method chosen has a significant impact on the final price and quality of coffee. The cheapest method of processing is called drying, which is used for lower-grade coffee beans, while higher-quality coffee beans are processed by wet treatment.

The harvesting and production process of coffee in primary processing

The harvesting and production process of coffee in primary processing

The harvest time is different in different countries and regions. The harvest process requires a lot of manpower, especially high-quality selected coffee, which can only pick fully ripe red coffee cherries. Because all coffee cherries don't ripen at the same time, you need to go back to the same tree many times to pick. Coffee beans come from a mature seed called coffee cherry (cherries)

Fruit to raw coffee beans

Fruit to raw coffee beans

A coffee tree can harvest 3-5 kg of fruit, and raw coffee beans account for 1. 5% of the fruit quality. Going from fruit to raw coffee beans is really a time-consuming and laborious task. Arabian, Robusta and Liberian Arabian coffee account for about 2% of the world's coffee production. The plant is not suitable for high temperature, low temperature, more rain and less rain. Coffee beans are oval and flat, with high quality

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The method of taking beans in the sun for the first processing

The method of taking beans in the sun for the first processing

Tanning is a traditional method for the initial processing of coffee beans, and at present, almost all coffee-growing countries such as Ethiopia and Yemen still use solarization to treat raw beans. Sun treatment will first identify sunken beans in the sink, that is, ripe or half-ripe beans are spread in the drying farm for natural drying. The specific time depends on the local climatic conditions, which usually takes two to four weeks.

The method of washing the beans in the initial processing

The method of washing the beans in the initial processing

Washing is the most popular and widely used method of raw bean treatment at present, and most of the boutique coffee beans will choose the washing method. In South America, all countries except Brazil choose to wash raw beans. Washing is the most scientific and technological method among all the treatment methods, and multiple screening is used to ensure the uniformity and stability of coffee bean quality. First of all, still