Costa Rica’s Dream Coffee

If it’s been a while since you tried Costa Rica coffee, you may want to try it again.  Changes in coffee production and an attempt to keep up with the growing market for coffee and gourmet coffee has caused some changes in the coffee coming out of this region.  The growing trend of small coffee mills also gives coffees from this region an even larger variety of flavors and qualities, so it might be time to revisit this coffee.

If you already love Costa Rica coffee, no doubt it’s for the extremely mild, some say perfect, coffee flavor.  Very mild with no bitterness, a very balanced flavor that’s worst criticism has always been its steadiness.Critics have determined that coffee from this region is failrly bland.And some of the huge coffee-producing farms and mills did make an effort to produce a coffee that would please almost every coffee drinker.

These coffees were typically made from your average Arabica beans and produced on a mass scale.  Today, smaller mills are becoming more and more popular in the region.  The Costa Rica coffee produced on these smaller farms are carefully controlled by the mill owner and blended to produce a distinct flavor to set it apart from the other coffee in the area. Even on a small farm envinronmental factors such as soil drainage, and elevation factor into taste diffferences.Combined, this explains the range of different flavors that result from different roasting temperaturs and times. 

The quality and flavor of a coffee is strongly related to the process it goes through. Signature processes or blending created different micro-brans of Costa Rican coffee.The first type of coffee grown there was Arabica coffee from Saudia Arabia. That was back in tehe 18th century.Costa Rica’s largest exported crop is coffee, beating out tobacco, sugar and cacao.

Costa Rica tints coffee that will remain in the country to keep the price down from the beans shipped overseas.Many of the workers are immigrants from the nearby countries like Nicaragua and their wages are only $12 to $18 per day.Because the wages are set by the government, a Costa Rican seasonal worker makes a pretty good living compated to other agricultural workers in the area.

The resurgance of Costa Rica coffee has grown world-side. Many Arabica blend fans are now fans of the mild and well balanced blends of Costa Rica coffee.

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