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Coffea arabica
Native from Ethiopia, this is a very important product in Costa Rica, in the 18 hundreds, after our independency the goverments encourage people to grow coffee, by given them free plants and even free land... THIS IS THE ESPECIES GROWN COMERCIALLY IN COSTA RICA, THERE ARE MANY VARIATIONS OF THE SPECIES. one of the reasons is beacuse it is consider better quality, and we can not compete in quantity.
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Spotted on Jan 15, 2010
Submitted on Sep 4, 2011
9 Comments
Wow, Jonathan! I think it would smell good too!! I never knew how coffee was roasted, it is so interesting! Thank you again!! You explain it so well. :)
The coffee is roasted in a rotary kiln, usually gas, the grains are in constant motion for uniform browning, also considering the quality of coffee for that purpose.
As a child we used to roast coffee at home just on a large iron pan, the smell is just so good....
That is very interesting!! Thank you for explaining this, I learn so much on this website!! How do they roast it?
There are 3 species of coffee grown comercially.... In CR, we only grow Coffea arabica, and there are hundreds of variations in this species, from all of those, the farmers probably cultivated no more that 10 variations... the flavors varied dependen of diferent conditions: temperature, amount of rain and good soils, the process of dryness, and the most important, the roasting...
You say there is different types of coffee? Is this similar to the different types of commercial coffee that the corporations sell in the US?
Not myself, But I love drinking coffee....
Do you grow coffee? It is a very interesting history!!
I remember seeing Coffee Fields in Costa Rica. Thanks for the history lesson.
This is interesting, I always wondered what it looks like. Good photo!