Coffee Regions And Flavors

How different coffee origins taste usually ethiopia naturally processed for many naturally processed ethiopians also called dry processed are a gateway drug into specialty coffee.

Coffee regions and flavors. Coffee that s grown and harvested in guatemala for example has a different flavor profile than coffee from java or yemen due to differences in climate soil and other miscellaneous factors. Among these regions are some characteristics that are shared and others that are unique to each. The coffee producing countries are commonly organized into three large regions. Nicaraguan peruvian honduran panamanian and mexican beans have a natural sweetness and less acidity and can be a good starting point if a single origin is preferred.

Naturals tend to be fruity heavy and wine like where washed coffees tend to have a floral tea like delicacy to them. I personally love sumatra but i probably wouldn t recommend it first. While perhaps not as well known as some of its central and south american neighbors guatemala s coffee has a distinctive taste quality favored by many for its rich flavor. The coffee growing regions in central america include not just colombia but also costa rica guatemala ecuador and honduras and nicaragua.

Clean and sweet aftertaste. Latin america africa arabia and asia pacific. Kenya bold bright juicy winey blackcurrant hibiscus grapefruit. Ethiopia washed process kenya.

Coffee from ethiopia is famous for the complex. And though each batch of beans will taste slightly differently even if they come from the same farm there are some generalizations you can make about these coffee flavor profiles from different regions. Right next door to ethiopia kenya has an exceptionally distinct flavor. Sumatran beans are rich and complicated and provide a sharp contrast to beans from the above regions.

Did you catch all that the coffee growing plots. Broadly speaking latin american coffees are known for their sweeter and balanced flavors african coffees are famous for bright fruity and floral notes whereas asian coffees are known for their earthy spicy and woody tastes. Rwanda balanced high quality acidity often medium diverse flavour. Naturally processed ethiopian coffees often have a syrupy body that accompanies a densely sweet berry flavor typically blueberry or strawberry.

The world s best coffee growing regions their flavor profiles. India is known in particular for a specific kind of coffee known as monsoon. Ethiopia is the oldest known producer of coffee and is the origin of coffea arabica itself. More specifically each individual country and even parts of countries have their own distinctive tastes.