【Chapter 509】 Coffee Tasting (Happy Chinese New Year!)

During the National Day, the opening of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' gave another interesting project to Ginkgo Village, and many young people participated in it with great interest. {[}

After all, many tourists have only drunk coffee and have never been close to the process of picking and making coffee, and now there is such an opportunity that will not be missed.

Under the guidance of the workers in the coffee plantation, the coffee beans picked by the tourists can be pre-processed in the coffee garden and taken home for the tourists to taste.

After the coffee is picked, it can be processed in two ways, turning the cherries into beans.

Dry processing: It is to dry and dehydrate the coffee cherries by using natural conditions such as sunlight and ventilation, and then put the dried coffee cherries into the shelling to remove the pulp, peel and silver skin. This method is the most economical and traditional method of processing, and the coffee beans treated in this method retain their aroma for a long time, but at the same time have a certain environmental odor. At present, this method is mostly used in many parts of African and Asian countries, but with the advancement of science and technology, many places have begun to use dryers to dry coffee cherries.

Wet processing: also known as washing processing, the coffee fruits are screened by soaking, and then the screened fruits are removed by fermentation, extrusion and other methods to remove the skin, pulp and slippery pulp on the surface of the silver skin, and the processed coffee beans will retain the silver skin on the surface for storage, the coffee beans in this state are called "parchment coffee beans" (parchmentcoffee), and it is necessary to wait until deep processing to remove the dried silver skin with a peeling machine. The biggest advantage of wet processing is that the coffee beans have a good appearance quality and the original flavor is well maintained: the disadvantage is that the processing costs are higher. Plenty of water is required.

As a master of money, Xiao Feng has prepared a high-cost wet processing machine for the 'Mengyao Coffee Garden', so that the coffee cherries picked by tourists can be turned into 'parchment coffee beans' on the same day.

Of course, the coffee that people usually drink is not this kind of green bean, but needs to be roasted before it becomes an edible coffee bean!

In fact, in order for a coffee plantation's coffee to be attractive enough in the market, in addition to growing high-quality coffee, roasting technology is also crucial.

Since the 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' is the first time to bear fruit this year, the experience of roasting coffee beans is equal to zero, so whether it is Xiao Feng or the technicians who have been recruited. It's all about constantly groping. In the end, the unique taste of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' can be formed.

In fact, the tourists who were able to enter the 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' during the National Day this time did not know that this opportunity was unique. By the time 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' became famous all over the world, the coffee brought home by these tourists was actually popular in the market. Let these tourists make a small fortune.

But since then. No tourists get this opportunity anymore. After the first batch of out-of-print coffee that circulated out was consumed, consumers and customers could only get these unique flavors from the official 'Mengyao Coffee Garden'.

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The head office of 'Colorful Sunshine' has now become a holy place in the hearts of many loyal customers. After all, Colorful Sunshine now has 50 branches in cities such as Chuncheng, Nanzhao and Yaozhou, and has a high status in the minds of many young people in southern Yunnan.

When many young tourists come to Ginkgo Village, they will go to the main store to taste the most authentic 'Colorful Sunshine' special milk tea!

Therefore, today's 'Colorful Sunshine' has left the original rented house and moved to a small building dedicated to the mirror lake, which has also become a new attraction in the scenic area.

If 'Colorful Sunshine' was still just a small investment by Mu Jin and a few girls, it would naturally not be able to obtain these privileges in Ginkgo Village, but when Xiao Feng took a stake in 'Colorful Sunshine', it naturally enjoyed the same treatment as other enterprises in the Jinghu system.

At the beginning of this year, the new head office of 'Colorful Sunshine' began to break ground and was put into use during the May Day period.

Compared with the original head office, the current head office has better decoration and more advanced equipment, and it is naturally not the previous fly restaurant, just the waiters have more than a dozen.

However, today Xiao Feng and others came to 'Colorful Sunshine', not to drink milk tea, but to taste the latest products of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' this year.

A week ago, Xiao Feng had carefully selected the first batch of ripe coffees of the year in the coffee garden, and after wet processing, he roasted them himself.

As a general rule of thumb, coffee has a shelf life after roasting due to volatilization and air oxidation, and of course, not the freshest roasted beans taste the best.

Xiao Feng brought the coffee beans selected in the past seven days today, and planned to taste the different tastes of these coffee beans, from which to judge which time period of coffee is more flavorful.

In fact, there are more than 10 coffee tasters in the 'Mengyao Coffee Garden', who will repeatedly test and test the various coffees in the coffee garden, and select the most suitable roasting process and eating recipe.

After all, with the practice of the 'Jinghu System', it is natural that it will not be willing to act as a material supplier for the foundation, but hopes to build the 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' into a top coffee brand, so it is reasonable to study the product before the coffee garden hangs fruit on a large scale.

Xiao Feng hired some coffee professional researchers, and planned to use small batches of coffee to carry out various realizations, and after obtaining the results, determine the brand characteristics of 'Mengyao Coffee'.

As the boss of the company, when Xu Mengyao couldn't drink coffee, Xiao Feng naturally took on part of the test work.

In order to make do with Mu Jin and Pan Shi, Xiao Feng specially placed the place to taste coffee in the main store of 'Colorful Sunshine' today, instead of in the leisure room on the second floor of the old mansion.

Otherwise, as soon as these two people arrived at the old mansion, several old people in the family would definitely be churning in all kinds of gossip, and if they scared Mu Jin away, it would not be good.

When she arrived at the store, Nini ran to the front desk to order, and the little guy came to the 'Colorful Sunshine' almost every once in a while, and he was very familiar with all kinds of things in the store.

After a while, the little guy came over with a cup of original milk tea and a cup of special milk tea, and the original milk tea was naturally her own favorite, and the special milk tea was given to her mother.

The mother and daughter sat on the sofa and drank tea, while watching Xiao Feng start grinding coffee beans, lighting the alcohol stove and starting to make coffee.

The customers who entered the 'Colorful Sunshine' looked at the people making coffee in the corner of the bubble tea shop with some curiosity, and some people recognized Xiao Feng, who took photos and signed autographs in twos and threes.

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Xiao Feng has long been accustomed to the enthusiasm of fans, and everyone knows that Xiao Feng is now extremely popular on the Internet, and there is no fuss.

After dealing with many fans, the coffee in the siphon pot gradually exudes a rich aroma, and everyone is excited to smell it.

Even Xu Mengyao, who is breastfeeding and can't drink coffee, is deeply attracted by this rich fragrance, after all, she was also a coffee lover before.

Judging by Xu Mengyao's experience, the aroma of home-grown coffee is really good, but just to see if the roasted Cheng dù is the most suitable?

The roasting process plays a crucial role in the quality of the coffee, and the difference in the roasting process determines the ratio of sourness and bitterness of the coffee. Different coffee varieties and coffees from different origins are very different in roasting details.

Many top-quality coffees are not only because of the high quality of the beans themselves, but also because the roasting details can perfectly bring out the advantages of the coffee, which is the most important thing.

Therefore, many top coffees have their own secrets in roasting technology, which can be regarded as the core competitiveness of these top brands.

Today's 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' is also working in this direction, and after a lot of repeated practice, in order to produce the most distinctive top-quality coffee.

After Xiao Feng finished brewing the coffee, a group of people began the process of tasting coffee, in which Xiao Feng, as the owner of the coffee plantation, had to patiently ask everyone about their feelings and record them for the researchers' reference.

I have to say that the coffee beans cultivated from the 'Space Spirit Spring' have a unique natural fragrance, and Xiao Feng uses the 'Space Spirit Spring' to brew coffee, which tastes even better.

Of course, since the research center of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' has just started, I don't know much about the quality and characteristics of coffee beans, and the roasting process is also a little uncertain. Therefore, the aroma of several coffees that Xiao Feng used to test this time was strong, but it was still a little inadequate.

Coffee is either too sour or too bitter, sour because of insufficient roasting time, bitter because of over-roasting, and it takes continuous effort to grasp the Cheng dù in it.

However, even so, Pan Shi was a little frightened!

Judging from Pan Shi's experience, the quality of the coffee beans of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' is excellent, and if the research center grasps the characteristics and explores the appropriate roasting technology, it means the birth of top coffee!

The planting area of 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' has reached 2,500 acres, and according to the minimum yield of 100 kilograms of coffee beans per mu, this is also the output of hundreds of tons!

Thinking about the high price of high-quality coffee, 'Mengyao Coffee Garden' is destined to become another big money-maker in the 'Jinghu System' in the near future!

Now Pan Shi admires Xu Mengyao more and more, this eldest sister who has made herself look up to the mountains since she was a child not only left herself far behind in her studies, but also outstanding in finding a husband. I really can't figure out how she can catch Xiao Feng in the vast sea of people in one trip, it's really incredible!

"Okay!" Just when Pan Shi was distracted, Xiao Feng clapped his hands and said, "Let's continue here tomorrow afternoon to taste coffee!"

Pan Shi raised his hand to agree without thinking about it, in fact, he himself had already poured a stomach full of coffee, but thinking that he could continue to sit and chat with Mu Jin tomorrow, he felt that it was not hard at all!

Sometimes, men who fall in love are so not afraid of hardship and tiredness! (To be continued......

ps:ps: Thank you for the red envelope of 'can't make waves'!R752