What is Solar treatment? Guava Plain Manor in Guatemala New Oriental region

Solarization:

Sunlight is also known as "natural drying" because it uses natural sunlight to dry coffee fruits and green beans. Due to the use of artificial and natural processing methods in the process, sun-dried beans look less neat in appearance and sell less well.

1. Bean selection:

The harvested fruit is placed in a tank of water, and the ripe fruit sinks, while the unripe and overripe fruit float up and can be rejected.

2, drying:

Put the selected ripe fruits on the square for 5-6 days until they are fully dried. At this time, the fruit turns dark brown and has a moisture content of 13%.

3. Shelling:

After drying, the peel becomes brittle and easy to fall off, which can be removed by machine. Enterprise farms usually have their own hulling factories, while small farms are handed over to processing centers for processing.

4. Selection and classification:

Fine farms will identify defective beans manually or by machine and pick them out and throw them away. The manual selection method usually uses a conveyor belt about 1 meter wide, with several female workers sitting on both sides to visually select the bad beans; some good farms even go through several selections until no defective beans are found. Machine selection rules use computers to identify and weed out defective beans, followed by a grading process that divides coffee beans into quality grades according to established criteria, with good coffee entering the specialty coffee market and bad coffee entering the commercial coffee market.

5. Polishing:

Dehusking can only remove the exocarp and endocarp, at this time, the silver film is still wrapped in the outer layer of the seed, you have to use a machine to remove this film. Then, fill the coffee beans into 60KG bags. The weight of bags varies slightly from region to region. Most of them use sacks.

Guatemala Plan del Guayabo Estate SL28

Country: Guatemala

Production area: New Oriental

Manor: Guava Plain Manor

Produced by: Mr. Benjamin Donado

Treatment method: wine fragrance sun treatment

Breed: SL 28

Altitude: 1675 m

Flavor: pineapple, dried apricot, red wine