DESDE EL CAMPO HASTA SU TAZA
PROCESO
DESDE EL CAMPO HASTA SU TAZA
Esta es una empresa familiar, integrada en todo el proceso. Proceso que para que sea posible que está en sus manos ha seguido un transcurso de hechos que inician el campo de las montañas Colombianas donde campesinos sortean la inclinación, la lluvia, el sol y cantan entre cafetales alegremente: para comenzar el día y el proceso con la siembra de almicigos (pequeñas bolsas con la semilla de café que va a germinar), que posteriormente se trasplantan al lote de cultivo, para que el cafeto que acaba de sembrarse de su primeros granos en aproximadamente 14 meses, tiempo en el cual se requiere de mútiples cuidados contra la maleza y plagas. Cuando llega la epoca de cosecha (que en el área del eje cafetero Colombiano inicia en Agosto-Septiembre y finaliza su tope máximo en Noviembre) o de mitaca (entre abril y mayo), los recolectores de café deben manualmente escoger y recolectar solamente los granos rojos que demuestran su madurez, para procesarlos y llevarlos a los silos de secado de la empresa donde se seca el café en silos combustionados con un subproducto del café: cascarilla de café, el cual permite una seca limpia y libre de olores ajenos que puedan contaminarlo.
Posteriormente pasa a la trilladora de café donde el café entra a un proceso de remoción de la cascarilla seca, y selección de café por tamaño por medio de stiles y de color por medio de máquinas electrónicas, cada uno de los cuales se realiza para cumplir con las caracteristicas del café Colombiano que se dispone para la exportación y los subproductos del mismo. El café Colombiano es reconocido a nivel mundial por sus características de suavidad, acidez y exquisito aroma y el mayor porcentaje de producción es destinado a la exportación del mismo a todo el mundo.
El proceso final, se realiza en la planta de café Símbolo donde se le agrega la tostion a un punto adecuado que permita resaltar sus características, se muele para que quede listo para preparar y se empaca para que en su bolsa conserve las características de buen sabor y aroma que queremos ofrecer. El café que despachamos a nuestros clientes es muy fresco hecho en la misma semana y esa frescura, ese manejo de todo el proceso y ese saber hacer hace de nuestro producto una excelente opción para deleitarse. Café Simbolo despertara sus sentidos y lo llevara a vivir una verdadera experiencia de nuestros orígenes cafeteros en una taza de café.
FROM THE GROWING REGIONS TO YOUR CUP OF COFFEE
This a vertical integrated family company. It starts in the Colombian mountains coffee plantations where farmers live with the steep inclination of the mountain skirts, sun and rain, while singing joyfully while they work.
The process begins by growing “almácigos†(small plants in plastic bags kept in greenhouses). Once the land is ready, these tiny coffee trees are planted. Fourteen months later, after intense husbandry labor, you begin to see the first beans, right on the branches of the coffee tree. Once the crop comes in hand pickers begin to collect the beans with utmost care to pick only the mature beans (red or yellow) and take them to the wet mill for processing and drying in the company’s heat ovens. These ovens are powered by crushed parchment, a by-product of the bean milling process, which ensure no fuel or chemical odors.
It is pertinent to say that Colombia has two coffee crops. The main crop hits in from August to November and the midcrop shows up during April and May. This situation forces the pickers to be very kind with the plants as there are flowers as well as beans while they work. And as you certainly know, flowers are the next crop. No flowers, no coffee.
Once the coffee is dried it is taken to the coffee mill for processing, parchment removal. Once this is done, beans are run for color and size screening, separating the good beans from the bad beans, in order to meet the export and by product standards of Colombian coffee. Colombian coffee is known worldwide for its consistency, softness, flavor, fragrance and acidity. Colombia exports most of the coffee that produces.
The final step is performed at the Café Símbolo roasting plant. Coffee is roasted to a point where it’s characteristics are enhanced, grounded and packed in bags that hold the flavor and fragrance expected to be found in a good cup of coffee. Coffee shipped is always fresh, roasted no more than a week old.
Therefore, by administering the whole coffee process and our coffee know how we put out in the market an excellent product that will bring pleasure and awaken our customers senses. A delightful experience in a coffee cup, imagine.
The process begins by growing “almácigos†(small plants in plastic bags kept in greenhouses). Once the land is ready, these tiny coffee trees are planted. Fourteen months later, after intense husbandry labor, you begin to see the first beans, right on the branches of the coffee tree. Once the crop comes in hand pickers begin to collect the beans with utmost care to pick only the mature beans (red or yellow) and take them to the wet mill for processing and drying in the company’s heat ovens. These ovens are powered by crushed parchment, a by-product of the bean milling process, which ensure no fuel or chemical odors.
It is pertinent to say that Colombia has two coffee crops. The main crop hits in from August to November and the midcrop shows up during April and May. This situation forces the pickers to be very kind with the plants as there are flowers as well as beans while they work. And as you certainly know, flowers are the next crop. No flowers, no coffee.
Once the coffee is dried it is taken to the coffee mill for processing, parchment removal. Once this is done, beans are run for color and size screening, separating the good beans from the bad beans, in order to meet the export and by product standards of Colombian coffee. Colombian coffee is known worldwide for its consistency, softness, flavor, fragrance and acidity. Colombia exports most of the coffee that produces.
The final step is performed at the Café Símbolo roasting plant. Coffee is roasted to a point where it’s characteristics are enhanced, grounded and packed in bags that hold the flavor and fragrance expected to be found in a good cup of coffee. Coffee shipped is always fresh, roasted no more than a week old.
Therefore, by administering the whole coffee process and our coffee know how we put out in the market an excellent product that will bring pleasure and awaken our customers senses. A delightful experience in a coffee cup, imagine.
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Publicado por Café Símbolo en Lunes, 26 de noviembre de 2018
