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Curup is a small cool hill town in Bengkulu province famous for its beautiful mountain scenery and coffee growing areas. Coffees from Curup are famous for their rich, full bodied coffees with "earthy flavors".
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Healthier, a little bit hyper active, and happier for sure. So, don't forget to drink a lot of coffee and be nice to each orher. Have a nice weekend peeps!
coffee cherries are separated from husk (red outer layer). This leaves the 2 halves of the bean covered in a slimy mucilage. This is removed by cleaning under water until the bean is no longer slimy leaving the bean with parchment husk still on. This will come off after drying in sun.
Irrigation of coffee helps assure uniform onset of flowering, adequate growth during dry spells and uniform maturation, facilitating mechanized harvest of ripe coffee cherries.
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Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
Continuing our trekking from the Tad Yuang falls we visit a close-by small village, walking along their coffee plantations of the Bolaven Plateau. The plateau, with its high elevation and cool weather is well suited for coffee cultivation, and is known for producing the best Lao arabica. The Bolaven plateau has the perfect weather for coffee.
Back at our Tad Fane resort, I order a hot "cafe Lao". A teenager in a white long-sleeved shirt and traditional Lao sarong taps the boiler professionally. She spoons the coffee into the homemade filter then pours in hot water, pausing to allow the black Robusta brew to drip into the glass of condensed milk below. I stir it up and take a sip - the warm evening's day gets a little hotter. The best coffee, they say, is like fine wine. It has the power to transport the discerning drinker to its place of origin. Just how fine can Lao coffee be? I'm no connoisseur so it's difficult to say, but the ordinary cup of Robusta gives a powerful caffeine kick that keeps me going all day. But Lao coffee has its own tale to tell. "In January, the berries ripen," and the Bolaven Plateau sees an influx of young pickers from all over Laos. It's a romantic place and a lot of them arrive with their sweethearts - January is always a busy month for weddings ;-)
At Bolaven Farms, Integrated Organic System is making credit available for training, teaching agriculturist and qualifying resident farmers. Bolaven Farms works together with the Laos government. This way farmers are empowered to break the cycle of poverty. A place where hopefully farmers could become proud land owners with productive family farms. The resident farmers believe in sowing the seeds of hope.
Bebeka Coffee Plantation is located in south western Ethiopia in Mizan Teferi.
With 6,000 hectares and around 5,000 employees the plantation is the largest coffee plantation in Ethiopia and it is also the oldest one. An altitude of 1,500 meters provides an ideal climate and enables the best growing conditions for the plants that are well protected by the larger forest trees which provide shade from the midday sun and preserve the moisture in the soil.
Ethiopia is traditionally a coffee country as it is the original country were coffe was produced. The word coffee comes from the name of the area where it is mainly grown, which is Kaffa.
Ethiopia produces 200,000 tons of coffee each year, of which almost half is for domestic consumption, the highest in Africa.
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We have a small coffee harvest. Our few plants are still young but one of them has produced substantial cherries this year so I've been picking them every few weeks as the cherries ripen. Under the red skin and pulp is a bean wrapped in a creamy silvery skin and beneath that a thin parchment. The beans in front snuggled with three just picked cherries, are from my first picking. As these beans dry the parchment layer becomes looser and then they will be ready for roasting. And after that we will grind them and brew some coffee...
On my trip to Costa Rica, I visited Doka Estate plantation, not only to purchase fresh coffee but also to see how my favorite morning beverage is made.
A coffee plant usually starts to produce flowers 3–4 years after it is planted, and it is from these flowers that the fruits of the plant (commonly known as coffee cherries) appear, with the first useful harvest possible around 5 years after planting. The cherries ripen around eight months after the emergence of the flower, by changing color from green to red, and it is at this time that they should be harvested.
Curving rows of a coffee (Coffea arabica) plantation adapted for center pivot irrigation and mechanical harvest, laid out in circles.
Bebeka Coffee Plantation is located in south western Ethiopia in Mizan Teferi.
With 6,000 hectares and around 5,000 employees the plantation is the largest coffee plantation in Ethiopia and it is also the oldest one. An altitude of 1,500 meters provides an ideal climate and enables the best growing conditions for the plants that are well protected by the larger forest trees which provide shade from the midday sun and preserve the moisture in the soil.
Ethiopia is traditionally a coffee country as it is the original country were coffe was produced. The word coffee comes from the name of the area where it is mainly grown, which is Kaffa.
Ethiopia produces 200,000 tons of coffee each year, of which almost half is for domestic consumption, the highest in Africa.
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Funny story about coffee beans. A while back I was at Whole Foods and wanted to buy green coffee beans but they would not sell them to me. I asked why and the roaster said, "we do not want to ruin the integrity of our bean".
Specialty coffee roasters have a large markup. Wholesale green beans cost between $1-2 per pound depending on the bean. Once a bean is roasted it usually sells for $11-15 (and sometimes more) a pound.
If you ever want to buy green beans to roast you can use www.sweetmarias.com (I have made orders online and made purchases in the store in Oakland). Expect to pay between $4-5 lb but the point of roasting beans is not to save money, it is to get freshly roasted beans that give good crema.
A green bean lasts around 2 years, a roasted bean is usable for 2-4 weeks, and beans that have been ground last about 20 minutes. These guides are for optimum quality.
Coffea arabica. Coffee cherries ripening up nicely.
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Francisco shows off the cherry coming in from Finca Matalapa (at Beneficio El Paraiso in Jayaque, El Salvador)
In initial stages of drying, shaded coffee is sorted of residual skin fragments and off-beans (at Michiti washing station in Kaffa, Ethiopia).
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Coffea arabica / coffee tree. Not necessarily the most stunning photograph but I was pleased to get the flowers, immature and mature cherries in one frame.
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