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Costa Rica is not only known for the stunning flora and fauna; the country is also famous for its delicious coffee. Then we drove around the beginning of December in Costa Rica and in our travel book read about the many coffee plantations near San Jose, we were still wondering how coffee is actually expresse made exactly. And who has ever thought to use to make a drink? Beans from the berry A visit to one of the many coffee plantations, such as Café Britt or Finca Doka, teaches you all about the processing of coffee beans.
Robusta (Coffea canephora) and Arabica (Coffea arabica) are perhaps the two most famous and important of coffees from all over the sixty existing species. Robusta has a higher caffeine content a stronger expresse taste, while Arabica is softer and more aromatic flavor. Arabica coffee comprises about 75% of world production; Robusta represents about 25%. The coffee we drink in the Netherlands Robusta coffee; Coffee grown in Costa Rica is Arabica coffee.
Coffea arabica, a species originally from Ethiopia, was introduced expresse in the 18th century. The golden berry has been for decades the main export product of Costa Rica. More than 1,100 km2, mainly in the Central Plateau, is dedicated to the production of coffee. Namely, the mountains provide ideal conditions for the coffee plant, which has a preference for a temperature expresse of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, a clear separation between the wet and dry seasons and fertile, well-irrigated slopes. All coffee countries then lie around the equator. expresse
Coffee plantations When the coffee has become small plants, after 8 to 12 months, they move from the nursery to the plantation, where coffee seedlings are planted in long rows under shade trees. It takes four to five years before the glossy coffee bush is fully grown and fruits are going to wear, hanging in clusters along the branches. In early May, there appear small white flowers that emit a jasmine-like scent. The flowers then turn out to berries. The fleshy green berries containing the beans are gradually turn red as they ripen. Each berry contains two semicircular seeds: the coffee beans. Well maintained shrubs can still carry 40 berries. A plant can provide up to 100 years or fruits.
Harvesting Most arabica berries ripen after six to eight months; The harvest begins in Costa Rica normally than in November. The harvest season runs through February. Often than seasonal expresse workers Nigaragua enabled. South of the equator, for example in Brazil and Zimbabwe, the main harvest expresse takes place in April or May, while it may continue until August. The countries around the equator, such as Uganda and Colombia, to year-round expresse picks, especially if plantations have the advantage of different heights. In fact, there are thus all the year round fresh coffee berries.
Harvesting can be done in two ways; strip-wise or selectively. The selective picking expresse means that every eight to ten days is picked, which still only the red, fully ripe berries are harvested. Selective expresse picking is obviously more expensive and labor-intensive than strip-picking; it is therefore used only for arabica beans. The ripe berries are shiny bright red. The red berries are picked by hand. Previously, the whole family helped with the harvest. Although it still prevents children into the fields to pick the coffee stand, many workers today are Nicaraguans and members of indigenous tribes.
The number picked berries is determined by several factors, the most obvious of the height of the trees and the facilities of the farm or plantation are. An average picker with an average business reaps by between 50 and 100 kg of berries. Day However, this total weight is only twenty percent beans, thus reaping an average picker 10 to 20 kg of coffee beans. Coffee comes in standard bags of 45 or 60 kg. A picker does so for three to six days to fill. Bale
The cost of harvesting are approximately half of the total annual cost of a coffee plantation. In Brazil, they have tried to reduce the introduction expresse of harvesting machines, the loose ripe berries from the branches shake, and they fall into a kind of funnels expresse these costs. Such machines are only used on soft, easily accessible land and require proper planning and layout, as they are only useful if the trees or shrubs in straight lines stand. For a machine-picked harvest, one must still remove the leaves and twigs afterwards. Most coffee is therefore harvested expresse by hand.
Beneficios In beneficios (coffee mills), the berries are cleaned.
Costa Rica is not only known for the stunning flora and fauna; the country is also famous for its delicious coffee. Then we drove around the beginning of December in Costa Rica and in our travel book read about the many coffee plantations near San Jose, we were still wondering how coffee is actually expresse made exactly. And who has ever thought to use to make a drink? Beans from the berry A visit to one of the many coffee plantations, such as Café Britt or Finca Doka, teaches you all about the processing of coffee beans.
Robusta (Coffea canephora) and Arabica (Coffea arabica) are perhaps the two most famous and important of coffees from all over the sixty existing species. Robusta has a higher caffeine content a stronger expresse taste, while Arabica is softer and more aromatic flavor. Arabica coffee comprises about 75% of world production; Robusta represents about 25%. The coffee we drink in the Netherlands Robusta coffee; Coffee grown in Costa Rica is Arabica coffee.
Coffea arabica, a species originally from Ethiopia, was introduced expresse in the 18th century. The golden berry has been for decades the main export product of Costa Rica. More than 1,100 km2, mainly in the Central Plateau, is dedicated to the production of coffee. Namely, the mountains provide ideal conditions for the coffee plant, which has a preference for a temperature expresse of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, a clear separation between the wet and dry seasons and fertile, well-irrigated slopes. All coffee countries then lie around the equator. expresse
Coffee plantations When the coffee has become small plants, after 8 to 12 months, they move from the nursery to the plantation, where coffee seedlings are planted in long rows under shade trees. It takes four to five years before the glossy coffee bush is fully grown and fruits are going to wear, hanging in clusters along the branches. In early May, there appear small white flowers that emit a jasmine-like scent. The flowers then turn out to berries. The fleshy green berries containing the beans are gradually turn red as they ripen. Each berry contains two semicircular seeds: the coffee beans. Well maintained shrubs can still carry 40 berries. A plant can provide up to 100 years or fruits.
Harvesting Most arabica berries ripen after six to eight months; The harvest begins in Costa Rica normally than in November. The harvest season runs through February. Often than seasonal expresse workers Nigaragua enabled. South of the equator, for example in Brazil and Zimbabwe, the main harvest expresse takes place in April or May, while it may continue until August. The countries around the equator, such as Uganda and Colombia, to year-round expresse picks, especially if plantations have the advantage of different heights. In fact, there are thus all the year round fresh coffee berries.
Harvesting can be done in two ways; strip-wise or selectively. The selective picking expresse means that every eight to ten days is picked, which still only the red, fully ripe berries are harvested. Selective expresse picking is obviously more expensive and labor-intensive than strip-picking; it is therefore used only for arabica beans. The ripe berries are shiny bright red. The red berries are picked by hand. Previously, the whole family helped with the harvest. Although it still prevents children into the fields to pick the coffee stand, many workers today are Nicaraguans and members of indigenous tribes.
The number picked berries is determined by several factors, the most obvious of the height of the trees and the facilities of the farm or plantation are. An average picker with an average business reaps by between 50 and 100 kg of berries. Day However, this total weight is only twenty percent beans, thus reaping an average picker 10 to 20 kg of coffee beans. Coffee comes in standard bags of 45 or 60 kg. A picker does so for three to six days to fill. Bale
The cost of harvesting are approximately half of the total annual cost of a coffee plantation. In Brazil, they have tried to reduce the introduction expresse of harvesting machines, the loose ripe berries from the branches shake, and they fall into a kind of funnels expresse these costs. Such machines are only used on soft, easily accessible land and require proper planning and layout, as they are only useful if the trees or shrubs in straight lines stand. For a machine-picked harvest, one must still remove the leaves and twigs afterwards. Most coffee is therefore harvested expresse by hand.
Beneficios In beneficios (coffee mills), the berries are cleaned.
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