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Coffea arabica

Coffea arabica

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Description:

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.

Habitat:

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Comments (9)
p.young713
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. :)
Jonathan Sequeira
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....
p.young713
That is very interesting!! Thank you for explaining this, I learn so much on this website!! How do they roast it?
Jonathan Sequeira
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...
p.young713
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?
p.young713
Do you grow coffee? It is a very interesting history!!
alicelongmartin
I remember seeing Coffee Fields in Costa Rica. Thanks for the history lesson.
p.young713
This is interesting, I always wondered what it looks like. Good photo!
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2011

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