Arabica coffee beans are grown in Africa,areas in Asia as well as Latin America. It is believed to be the first type of coffee beans that were harvested. It is widely grown than other type of coffee beans. Usually they can take about seven years to reach their full size. The fruits from the plants which contain the seeds are called the Arabica coffee beans. The beans must be picked at a proper time for it to produce a good cup of coffee.
As we know, coffee contains caffein but the good news is that Arabica coffee has lower level of caffein compares to other types of coffee.
Where are Arabica coffee best planted? The Arabica plants grow well on the steep slopes as well as the terraced highlands. The reasons being they can get the right amount of sunlight and a lot of rain. However, the coffee plants can not grow higher than thousand feet high. In a year these plants can produce about one pound of Arabica coffee per annum.
Now we know how and where they are grown, let's look at how they are being processed. There are two popular ways how coffee are processed: wet and dry process.
The Wet Process
In wet process, the beans are harvested from the farms. From there they go through several stages before they are sold and roasted. The first major process is in the factory, where the ripe beans are separated from the unripe beans, depulped to remove the outer cover. They are then fermented in a tank to remove the Arabica coffee beans from the husk. After an adequate time when the soaking process has been completed the beans are removed and dried out in the sunshine on huge patios for about six weeks. During the daytime the coffee beans are rakes continuously so that they dries up quicker and evenly, at night they are being transported into covered buildings.
The Dry Process
In dry process on the other hand, the husks of the coffee are allowed to be intake after they are being harvested, no soaking in the fermented tank like in the wet process. Therefore the Arabica beans still have the husks which dry around the beans.
Arabica coffee beans has different types of flavours, this however depend on where they are coming from. There are people who say that other types of coffee taste like spices, nuts a swell a chocolate. That is one of the reasons why coffee made from Arabica beans is more popular among coffee drinkers than those coffee made from Robusta coffee beans, even though the latter is cheaper. It is all about the flavor. Many coffee drinker say that Arabica coffee has the right level of acidity and the mild flavour indulges them with a great tasting cup of coffee. While the Robusta beans are criticised for having a woody and harsh acidic taste. Therefore if you would like to have a cup of great tasting and fulfiling coffee, go for Arabica coffee beans, you won't regret it for a minute.
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