Beethoven Coffee Bean Brewing Guide Costa Rica Musician Series Beethoven Coffee Flavor Characteristics

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Beethoven's early musical compositions span roughly from 1792 to 1800, during which Beethoven was in his prime. His music was influenced by renowned musicians Haydn and Mozart, thus exhibiting a light, lively, and flowing character throughout. Canet Estate has a coffee bean that tastes remarkably light, lively, and flowing, so the estate owner, who loves classical music, named this coffee bean "Beethoven."

FrontStreet Coffee - Costa Rica Musician Series · Beethoven

Region: Costa Rica, Tarrazú

Estate: Canet Estate

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Yellow Catuai

Altitude: 1900m

Canet Musician Series - Beethoven

Canet Estate is located in the highest altitude area of Costa Rica's premium coffee region, Tarrazú. This area is also the most densely populated region for fruit cultivation in Costa Rica. Besides coffee trees, the estate primarily grows passion fruit. The coffee trees planted at the estate can be said to be the fewest in the Tarrazú region, as the owner only plants coffee in a specific area, ensuring each coffee tree receives meticulous care.

Although the estate's coffee cultivation scale is small, it has produced the Musician Series coffee beans renowned throughout the specialty coffee world. Through the experience brought by each coffee bean, the owner incorporated corresponding classical music styles, naming four coffee beans after their composers: "Beethoven," "Mozart," "Bach," and "Chopin." FrontStreet Coffee acquired all four of these distinctive coffee beans without hesitation!

Beethoven's early compositions were primarily in the Romantic style, and when FrontStreet Coffee tastes this coffee bean, it also evokes associations with Beethoven's Romantic music. When ground, the coffee beans emit a strawberry-like aroma. During brewing, one can experience floral notes and the sweet-tart sensation of grapes. Through cupping, FrontStreet Coffee found that Beethoven coffee has the sweet-tart quality of red berries, along with a lively and bright citrus-like acidity. As it gradually cools, the juiciness of red berries slowly emerges, with the aftertaste carrying a hint of almond aroma.

Coffee Variety

Yellow Catuai

This Beethoven coffee bean acquired by FrontStreet Coffee uses the Yellow Catuai variety. Catuai is a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra. Like Red Catuai, Yellow Catuai has excellent disease resistance, making it suitable for cultivation in high-altitude areas. High yield, strong disease resistance, ability to withstand direct sunlight, and delicate, clean acidity are the greatest characteristics of this variety.

Coffee Bean Processing Method

Washed

This Beethoven coffee bean acquired by FrontStreet Coffee uses traditional washed processing. The washed processing method involves putting selected coffee fruits into a depulper to initially remove the skin and pulp. The coffee beans with remaining pulp mucilage are placed in water to ferment for about 18-36 hours.

After fermentation, the coffee beans with parchment are placed in flowing water channels to wash away the pulp and mucilage. After washing, the coffee beans are dried to reduce the moisture content to about 12%, and finally, the parchment is removed from the coffee beans. FrontStreet Coffee believes that washed processed beans have a cleaner and brighter mouthfeel, and the acidity will be particularly lively.

FrontStreet Coffee Roasting Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roaster felt that this Beethoven bean has high density, so decided to roast it to a medium-light level to preserve the bright acidity while showcasing the bean's fruity notes, and also enhancing richness and balance. Preheat the roaster to 170°C before loading, adjust the heat to 120, open the damper to 3, return to temperature at 1'36", maintain heat;

At 140°C, keep the heat unchanged and open the damper to 4. At 5'55", the beans turn yellow, grassy aroma disappears, entering the dehydration stage. At 151°C, reduce heat to 100, damper remains at 4. At 176°C, adjust heat to 85, damper unchanged. At 8'15", dehydration is complete, wrinkles and black spots appear on the bean surface, toast aroma turns to coffee aroma, signaling the prelude to first crack. Pay attention to listen for the first crack sound. At 9'01", first crack begins, open damper fully to 5, heat unchanged. Development time after first crack is 1'45", unload at 193°C.

FrontStreet Coffee Cupping Report

Dry Aroma: Strawberry

Wet Aroma: Citrus, white floral notes

Flavor: White floral notes, citrus, strawberry, ripe berries, almond

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Experience

Dripper: Hario V60

Water Temperature: 91°C

Coffee Dose: 15g

Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:15

Grind Size: Medium-fine grind (78% pass-through rate on #20 standard sieve)

FrontStreet Coffee's segmented extraction technique: First, use 30g of water to fully saturate the coffee grounds into a "hamburger" shape for 30s pre-infusion, then proceed to the second brewing stage. For the second stage, FrontStreet Coffee uses a steady medium-fine water flow in circular motions, injecting water to 125g at 55 seconds on the timer, then stops to wait for the water level to drop to 2/3 of the coffee bed before starting the third stage. For the third stage, FrontStreet Coffee continues with a steady medium-fine water flow, injecting water to 225g at 1'45" on the timer, waiting for the coffee liquid to completely finish dripping. The total extraction time is 1'59".

Beethoven Coffee Bean Brewing Flavor

The overall mouthfeel is clean with rich aroma. The strawberry juice's sweet-tart sensation and citrus-like lively acidity in the entrance are like lively, bouncing musical notes dancing in the mouth. The floral notes and almond-like aftertaste bring perfect embellishment to this musical chapter.

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