Many friends who come to the café for the first time will fall into the difficulty of choosing in the face of the dense list of coffee beans in the store, and some customers who do not drink coffee often will wonder: "How did you choose the names of these beans?" Why are some called Bach and Mozart? Aren't they ** home? ”
Well, todayHanasaki coffeeI'll give you an answer to the questions about the name of coffee beans
In the early days of specialty coffee, coffee beans did not emphasize too much detailed traceability information, but simply named them directly after the region where the producer was located, and then sold them in large quantities to the consumer region. For example, the one named after the countryColombian coffee, named after the appellationIndonesian Javanese coffee, named after the port of transportMocha coffee, and there are also named after the mountainsBlue Mountain CoffeeWait a minute.
This production and marketing model has changed with the continuous expansion of the coffee consumption market, and after entering the new era of specialty coffee, the unique "regional flavor" has been discovered, and the traceability information of coffee beans has begun to be concerned by practitioners and consumers. The Yirgacheffe appellation is one of the best examples of this, and it is further subdivided into growing villages and treatment plants, such as the Fruit Tinting Cooperative and the Konga Cooperative in Yirgacheffe.
With the increasing attention to the source of coffee planting, many businessmen have also invested in this link, establishing their own coffee estates, from production, materials, sales and a series of issues by the owner of the estate, so they use their own estate name to promote their own coffee beans, from which the name is derived. For example, Panama Emerald Manor, Levitra Manor, etc.
In order to promote the improvement of the quality of local coffee beans and improve the planting enthusiasm of producers, some coffee-producing countries often hold green coffee competitions to rank and award high-quality green coffee beans with an objective evaluation standard. Therefore, many coffee beans will be named after the rankings they have won, and the common green bean competitions include BOP (Best of Panama) in Panama, COE (Cup of Excellence) in the Americas, and TOH (Taste of Harvest) in Africa.
In addition to the green bean competition, the more ornamental barista professional competition beans will also become the object of everyone's attention. In order to find the unique flavor of the coffee, the participating baristas will cooperate with different coffee estates and bring them to the competition, through different brewing techniques and characteristics of the presentation, so that people can know a bean more intuitively, and the beans selected by the winners are also known to more people.
For example, Oiran , the runner-up in the 2017 World Coffee Brewing Competition in China, Li Jianfei, used the Toh sun group champion Humbella coffee beans to defeat the "winning general" Geisha at that time. Coffee beans are a type of crop, and climate change will also affect the flavor performance every year. Therefore, the green beans from the Buku Abel processing plant continue to use the name of Oiran of the year, and the name of Oiran X is given year by year0 series. It should be noted that the name Oiran is mostly popular in China, and if you want to try this bean from a foreign roaster, you still need to search back to the Buku Abel processing plant.
Some coffee beans are named after a variety to emphasize the uniqueness of their variety. For example, we are familiar with Geisha, and in recent years, the popular Xiclaw and so on.
In addition to these naming rules, there are also things like Indonesia's Mandheling coffee that are not the name of the place of origin or variety, but are named after a misunderstanding. Due to the large number of types, different mandheling will be named after the origin, green bean characteristics, and brand, such as Pwn's ** Mandheling, aged Mandheling, etc.
When coffee beans are processed in a unique way to create something unique and concrete, they also come up with names that are easy to conjure, such as Honduran sherry casks fermented in whiskey barrels and Dorothy with a rich white peach oolong aroma.
Some high-quality and scarce coffee beans will have the green bean treatment in their name or the country's rating, such as Jamaica Blue Mountain One and Kenya washed AA coffee. In addition, it is more common to use the brand grading naming method introduced by the producer itself, and the Geisha coffee of Emerald Estate is divided into multiple levels: bidding, red label, and green label.
LetHanasaki coffeeGoing back to the original guest's question, Baja and Mozart coffee beans are two beans from the first family series of the Carnet estate in Costa Rica, which also includes Beethoven and Chopin. Do you know these things about the name of coffee beans?