Speaking ofcosta rican coffee beans, everyone should have heard of it. There are a lot of Costa Rican coffee beans in Front Street. Apart from the musician series, which has been very popular in recent years, Front Street also has a blackberry and a strawberry candy, and these coffee beans are basically processed with honey. Generally speaking, countries in El Salvador, Costa Rica and Central America prefer this experimental coffee processing method. Now honey processing has become a common coffee processing method in the world.
Washing, sun-drying and honey processing are three common processing methods. Before talking about these processing methods, Front Street will first help you understand the basic structure of coffee: peel, pulp, pectin, parchment, and coffee cherries. After the bean selection, the coffee beans will be spread on the bean drying field for natural drying. The specific time depends on the climate. After about 2-4 weeks, the moisture content of the coffee beans will drop to about 12%, and the coffee beans can be taken out with a shelling machine. During the drying process, coffee can fully absorb the essence of fructose, and its sweetness and body are higher than that of washed coffee beans.
Front Street believes that washed coffee beans are the processing method that best reflects the terroir characteristics of specialty coffee beans. After multiple steps of removing the peel and pulp, soaking in water for fermentation, cleaning the pectin, drying, and removing the endocarp, the washed coffee has good acidity and a bright, pure flavor without impurities. Therefore, most of Front Street's ration beans are washed, so that many coffee lovers can buy coffee with the most representative flavor of the production area at the most affordable price. Even in Costa Rica, which is famous for its honey treatment, Front Street still chose a water-based washCosta Rican Tara Bean Coffee BeansJoin Front Street’s ration bean series of products. The following is the specific green bean information of this coffee:
front streetCosta Rican Tara Beads
Country of Origin: Costa Rica
Production area: Tarazhu
Variety: Kaduai, Kaduura
Altitude: 1500 meters
Grade: SHB
Treatment method: washed
Today Front Street will introduce to you the coffee of Costa Rica based on this coffee bean. Costa Rica is located in the Isthmus of Central America. The climate is regulated by the Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents and sea breezes. There are many towering volcanoes with an altitude of 2,000 meters. Coffee berries can grow slowly in the fertile volcanic ash soil and high-altitude cool environment, giving birth to coffee beans with a complete and rich flavor.
The first place where coffee was cultivated in Colombia was on the slopes of the Poas and Barva volcanoes, in the area today known as the Central Valley. After years of development, there are now eight major coffee cultivation areas. The soil includes several consecutive layers of thick volcanic ash and volcanic dust. These areas include: Tarrazu, West Valley, Central Valley, Tres Rios, Brunca, Guanacaste, Orosi and Turrialba. Among these production areas, the Tarrazu and West Valley regions account for about half of Costa Rica’s coffee production. Costa Rican Tarazu coffee beans from the mountains are known as one of the best coffees in the world.
What kind of coffee processing method is honey processing? When the coffee cherries are peeled off, you will see a layer of clear mucus covering the coffee beans. Honey processing is all about retaining the mucilage during the coffee drying process. During the drying process of coffee, the concentration of mucus increases, and the sugar and acid stored in it will penetrate into the coffee beans. Honey-processed coffee has a sweeter flavor than washed coffee.
Interestingly, honey-processed coffee can also be distinguished into different types according to the amount of pectin retained in the green beans, including white honey, yellow honey, red honey, and black honey. The darker the color, the thicker the pectin, which forms a darker color after drying and also brings higher sweetness to the coffee. Therefore, black honey-processed coffee beans often have a richer aroma. Front Street blackberry is one of the representative coffee beans. It is medium-light roasted and has the flavor of floral, grape, berry, cream, and wine-filled chocolate. It is very suitable for hot and cold hand brews and ice dripping, and has a sweet and sour taste.
Careful people may have discovered that the grade beans of these two coffees are SHB. For Costa Rican coffee, SHB is the highest grade. So how is Costa Rican coffee graded? In Costa Rica, green coffee beans are graded primarily by altitude, which affects the hardness of the beans. Regions with higher altitudes produce harder coffee beans, which are considered more desirable. Front Street has compiled the Costa Rican green coffee bean grading standards for everyone:
SHB (extremely hard beans): planted at an altitude of 1500-1700 meters;
HB (hard beans): planted at an altitude of 1350-1500 meters;
SH (slightly hard beans): The planting altitude is 1200-1350 meters;
Extra Prime (extra high-quality washed beans): planted at an altitude of 1000-1200 meters;
Prime (high-quality washed beans): planted at an altitude of 850-1000 meters;
Good Washed: Planted at an altitude of 700-850 meters.
Here, Front Street will tell you a little knowledge. Although the high altitude of Costa Rican coffee cultivation in the entire America is the key to its excellent coffee flavor. But another interesting fact that keeps Costa Rican coffee at such high quality standards is that it is illegal to produce robusta coffee beans in Costa Rica.
Front Street Barista Brewing Suggestions
Considering that this bean is an extremely hard SHB bean from high altitude in Costa Rica, Front Street recommends using a higher water temperature and a finer grinding degree if you want to brew out the rich fruity texture of the coffee. The harder the coffee beans are, the finer the grind size is required to increase the extraction area and thereby increase the extraction rate.
Filter cup: V60
Water temperature: 90-91ºC
Powder amount: 15g
Pink to water ratio: 1:15
Grinding degree: the size of fine sugar (sieve powder in a No. 20 sieve bowl to 82%)
Three-stage extraction: Pour the coffee powder into the V60 filter cup, moisten the powder bed with twice the amount of coffee powder, and steam for 30 seconds. Then pour water in a small flow from the inside to the outside in a circle until it reaches 125g. When the powder bed drops to half of the filter cup, continue to inject the same thin water flow into the third section to 225g until all the coffee liquid is filtered and take out the filter cup. The time is about 2 minutes (10 seconds error).
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
