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Huehuetenango Coffee Variety Profile

This Huehuetenango coffee variety includes Bourbon, Catuai, and Caturra, featuring wonderful sweetness, balance, and complex, varied flavors, along with prominent nut and dark chocolate characteristics.

Huehuetenango Coffee Bean Roasting Analysis

The coffee beans are medium-sized with medium density and naturally high moisture content. The roasting target is medium roast. This Guatemala coffee uses medium roast to reduce acidity intensity, enhancing texture and balance, resulting in overall sweeter flavors with more pronounced chocolate and nut characteristics.

In the first batch of roasting, the dropping temperature was relatively high, with beans entering at 200°C and relatively high heat. During the roasting process, it was discovered that these beans had high moisture content, so a roasting technique of gradually reducing heat, steady temperature rise, and extended dehydration time was adopted. The heat was adjusted finer when the beans reached the yellowing point, completed dehydration, and showed first crack signs, avoiding surface scorching and slightly extending the first crack time to increase caramelization reaction time, enhancing flavor texture and balance.

Roaster: Yangjia 600g Semi-direct flame

Preheat to 200°C, airflow setting at 3. After 30 seconds, adjust heat to 160°C, airflow unchanged. Return temperature point at 1'37". Maintain heat, at 5'30" bean surface turns yellow, grassy aroma completely disappears, entering dehydration stage. Reduce heat to 140°C, adjust airflow to 4.

Dehydration completed only at 8'00", reduce heat to 100. At 9'45", bean surface shows ugly wrinkles and black spots, toasted bread aroma clearly transforms to coffee aroma, which can be defined as the prelude to first crack. At this point, listen carefully for the first crack sound. At 9'55" first crack begins, reduce heat to 70, fully open airflow to 5 (heat adjustment must be very careful, not so small as to eliminate cracking sound). Develop for 2'10" after first crack, drop at 194.5°C.

This Guatemala Miracle Manor coffee bean has relatively balanced texture, with noticeable yet smooth sweet and sour sensations, featuring rich chocolate and nut flavors, prominent tea-like qualities, slight smokiness in the aftertaste, gentle fruit acidity, high body, and excellent cleanliness.

Guatemala Huehuetenango Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

The Guatemala Huehuetenango coffee beans - Tianyi Estate Palhu Lake coffee roasted by FrontStreet Coffee offer excellent guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they provide extremely high value for money. A half-pound (227g) package costs only 75 yuan. Calculated at 15g per single-origin coffee, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup costing only about 5 yuan. Compared to café prices that often reach tens of yuan per cup, this represents exceptional value.

FrontStreet Coffee: A Guangzhou-based roastery with a small shop but diverse bean varieties, where you can find both famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store services. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

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FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473