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The drying process of coffee beans
After the wet treatment, the coffee beans are still preserved in the inner pericarp, which still contains about 15% water. The endocarp must be dried to a moisture content of about 11% to ensure that coffee beans are stored in a stable and safe environment. Water content is critical, because if Arabica beans are overdried to a moisture content of 10%, they will be lost
Three steps to determine the freshness of coffee beans
There are three steps: smell, see, and peel. Smell: put the coffee beans close to the nose and smell them deeply to see if you can clearly smell the aroma of the coffee beans. If so, the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the aroma is weak, or has begun to appear greasy, it means that the coffee beans are not fresh at all. This kind of coffee beans, no matter how much effort you put into grinding and going
Know a lot about high-quality coffee, how to select defective coffee beans and steps
Before selecting defective beans, raw beans need to be screened in order to make the beans uniform in size. You can use three different sizes of special custom screen, or you can use the metal screen sold in general horticultural shops, but pay attention to the size. The purpose of sieving is to separate the size of beans and remove impurities. The next step is hand-selected.
Teach you how to select defective coffee beans from raw coffee beans
In the selection of defective beans, the most difficult to judge are fermented beans and unripe beans. At first glance, some are slightly yellow, or only slightly different, which makes it difficult to judge whether they should be removed or not. However, as long as there is hesitation, it should be eliminated without thinking. In short, the most important thing is to use the most perfect hand selection to make delicious coffee.
The making skills of Kopi Luwak
Production skills: 1. Indonesians remove the silver-gray film on the appearance of coffee beans, wash them with water, dry them in the sun, and then stir-fry them to become cat poop coffee beans. 2. Only about 150 grams of coffee beans can be extracted from a jin of civets' feces, which will cause 20% loss in the baking process. Due to the unique raw materials and processing technology, this kind of coffee can be said to be very rare.
The method of making Kopi Luwak
Production methods: 1, civets love to eat ripe red coffee fruits on coffee trees; 2, pick out undigested coffee seeds from cat droppings; 3, remove the silver gray film of coffee seeds, wash them with water and dry them in the sun; 4, stir-fry to make Luwak coffee beans.
Picking and processing methods of coffee beans
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)
Planting skills of herbaceous coffee trees
First, planting time: April 15-25 period. Second, planting location: plain, hillside, wasteland, front and back house, forest and fruit tree seedlings can be planted, but should not be planted in tall trees or other unventilated places. Third, herbal coffee does not like flood and fertilizer, conditional planting can use farm manure, during the growth period, it is best to irrigate 1-2 water during the growth period, absolutely do not allow the use of all kinds of chemical fertilizers and
Growth and characteristics of Coffee trees
The origin of the coffee tree is Ethiopia in Africa. In botany, coffee trees belong to the evergreen trees of the subgenus Rubiaceae, and coffee beans, commonly known as coffee beans, are actually the seeds of the fruit of coffee trees. They are called coffee beans only because they are shaped like beans.
Cultivation techniques of Yunnan Coffee with small grains
Disease control: 1. Coffee rust is the main disease of coffee, the most harmful, the damaged plants, light reduced yield, heavy death. Coffee rust is mainly harmful to leaves and sometimes to young fruits and twigs. After the leaves were infected, many light yellow spots appeared at first and enlarged in the form of water stains, followed by orange-yellow powdery spores on the back of the leaves, and there was a light green halo around the disease spots, and the disease spots in the later stage.
How to make coffee at home
The first thing to introduce is that coffee should not be "brewed", but should be "brewed".
Judge a good Espresso
What is Espresso? The high-pressure and fast brewing method of coffee is called Espresso, that is, Espresso originally refers to a method of brewing coffee, and later the coffee brewed in this way is also called Espresso. The way to make a perfect cup of Espresso coffee is to grind the mixed coffee beans with a depth of 7 grams and 8 grams into extremely fine powdered coffee.
How does the siphon pot make Blue Mountain Coffee?
Make a pot of Blue Mountain Coffee in a classic siphon pot and extract it with your heart. Savor the unique temperament of Blue Mountain Coffee. The brewing method of Blue Mountain Coffee generally uses single coffee utensils. Such as siphon pot, filter bag type, drip filter type and so on. Of course, it can depend on mood and interest. Different ways can change different tastes and feelings.
It takes three steps to drink Espresso
It is generally said that three mouthfuls are finished, in fact, the so-called three mouthfuls is a general meaning, just that there will be three layers of taste, there is no need to burn out a mouth bubble must drink three mouthfuls, but it is still necessary to drink hot.
How to drink coffee is the best
(1) No milk is the most widely used coffee condiment. Traditionally, milk has never been added to coffee in some countries such as Yemen, Ethiopia and Turkey. It is widely believed that milk was first added to coffee by Monin in Grenoble in 1685. In the mid-1980s, 57% of people in the United States drank coffee with milk, while Germany had a high percentage.
List several ways to treat fresh coffee fruits 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.
Coffee bean treatment process: picking-berry treatment-drying
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
Detailed explanation of two methods in the processing of raw 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
Recommend four ways to get raw coffee beans.
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
Methods of processing raw coffee beans in Yunnan
Yufa, which opened in the 1960s and has a history of more than 50 years, stepped into the store as if it had stepped into a time tunnel. The machines displayed in the shop have been used for more than half a century, and the old appliances have found their old flavor.