We’ve made it through another week and to another Wednesday which can only mean one thing, here on the BMag blog anyway, it’s time to play Humpday Giveaway!
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So now that you know the prize, we need a question for you to answer.
This week’s query comes from the pages of the June + July 2013 issue of Barista Magazine, well, that’s one of the places you can find the answer anyway. Specifically, you can find it in the latest installment of the Colombian Coffee Hub’s column.
Without further ado, here you go: At higher altitudes in coffee-growing regions, temperatures drop significantly at night. What effect does this have on the coffee cherry?
Think you know the answer? Then all you have to do is leave it in the comments section, along with your FIRST and LAST names. You have from when this post goes live (7:00AM PDT on July 24) until 6:59AM PDT on July 25 to respond. All correct responses (who have also given first and last names!) will be put in the drawing for a chance to win. The winner will be announced in a post on Thursday. (Please note, due to shipping restrictions, this week’s prize can only be mailed to U.S. addresses.)
Good luck to everyone and thanks for playing this week’s round of Humpday Giveaway!
The temperature drops at high altitudes make the coffee tree produce more sugars, which are stored at the cherries, and allows the tree to protect itself. The result is a sweeter and more acidic coffee.
Joaquin Garcia
it makes for more complex sugars and developed flavors in the bean
Cooler mountain temperatures provide a slower growth cycle for the coffee tree which prolongs bean development. This longer maturation process imbues the coffee bean with more complex sugars, yielding deeper, more interesting flavors.
NAME: Chad Bledsoe
the nightly temperature drops, at higher altitudes, cause the coffee tree to produce more sugars which are stored in the cherries.
ANSWER: It causes the cherries to be sweeter and more acidic.
It will lead to higher residual sugars in the cherries for more acidity and sweetness, Eric Berrong
It can lead to diseases such as coffee rust.
Eric Berrong
Varied diurnal temperatures cause slower seed development often leading to higher density resulting in more intense acidity and flavor.
lower temperatures provide a slower growth cycle which prolongs bean development. Resulting in a more complex sugars and deeper flavors.
Lower temps leave the plants susceptible to diseases, coffee rust being one of those.
The coffee tree produces more sugars that are stored in the cherries and it allows the tree to protect itself. That’s why higher altitude coffees tend to be sweeter and more acidic…just the way I love them!
Affects coffee production and quality, in particular with the onset of serious disease events such as the coffee rust epidemic currently affecting coffee plantations in Latin America.
Robbie Melton
No bueno. Can cause coffee rust
Temperature drop leads to diseases like Coffee Rust.
Decrease in temp allows for coffee rust.
Coffee rust
David Bise
Temperature drop leads to diseases like Coffee Rust.
The temperature drops make the coffee tree produce more sugars, which are stored in the cherries (allows the tree to protect itself). The cherries then become sweeter and more acidic.
The temperature drop makes the coffee plant susceptible to diseases such as coffee rust
Leads to coffee rust susceptibility.
Extreme temperature drops make the coffee plant vulnerable to diseases such as coffee rust.
Makes coffee plants vulnerable to pests and diseases, such as coffee rust.
Makes it more vulnerable to disease and pests.
makes the cherry susceptible to diseases like rust
The low temperatures lead to diseases such as coffee rust.
Makes coffee plants vulnerable to pests and diseases, such as coffee rust.
Makes the cherry more vulnerable to rust!
Nolan Parker
Basically, the temp drop makes the trees produce more sugars, which is stored in the cherries and allows the trees to protect itself. The coffee tends to be sweeter and more acidic. Jacob Archer
Leads to diseases on the coffee plants such as coffee rust.
Leads to diseases on the coffee plants such as Coffee Rust.
make coffee plants susceptible to pests at lower temperature.
The nighttime temperatures at these heights drop significantly, without freezing, slowing the growth of the coffee cherries and allowing them to develop more concentrated flavors with better acidity.
temperatures below 65 F make the coffee plant vulnerable to pests and diseases
Affects coffee production and quality, in particular with the onset of serious disease events such as the coffee rust epidemic currently affecting coffee plantations in Latin America.
It can derive in plant disseases such as coffee rust.
It makes the coffee tree produce more sugars and allows the tree to protect itself.
Coffee Rusttt
La roya, rust that kills coffee plants
Affects coffee production and quality, in particular with the onset of serious disease events such as the coffee rust epidemic currently affecting coffee plantations in Latin America.
Leads to diseases on the coffee plants such as Coffee Rust.
Steven Lim