Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 1192 Coffee Roaster Master
As soon as Hammond said these words, the originally good atmosphere became a little awkward.

Yu Zheng could not help but secretly frowned, and hurriedly said haha: "Master Zhao, don't mind, Hammond has such a straightforward temper. You must know that people with skills have character. He is a world-renowned coffee roaster. It’s understandable to have some requirements in the field I’m good at, haha!”

In all honesty, Zhao Lei was not angry at what Hammond said.If Hammond is the kind of person who doesn't care about principles for money, it makes him feel uneasy.

So after hearing Yu Zheng's words, Zhao Lei immediately smiled and said: "Mr. Yu, you don't need to say more, I can understand Mr. Hammond's decision. Let's invite the two of you to go to the coffee garden first to see how the quality of our coffee fruit is." Whatever. If it doesn't meet Mr Hammond's demands, I'll accept whatever he decides."

Zhao Lei's attitude made Hammond's impression of him much better. He nodded slightly and said, "Mr. Zhao is right, let's see the coffee fruit first."

So the three went to the coffee garden together, and when Hammond saw the coffee garden from a distance, he frowned involuntarily.

Seeing this, Yu Zheng quickly asked him, "Hammond, are you not satisfied with Master Zhao's coffee garden?"

"The local climate is quite suitable for growing coffee, and the coffee trees are growing well from a distance." Knowing that Zhao Lei is Yu Zheng's friend, Hammond was more polite in his speech, but quickly changed the subject: "But coffee The location of the garden is not ideal, the most suitable area for the growth of coffee trees is the mountainous area between 2000 and [-] meters above sea level, and only in that environment can the best quality coffee fruits be produced.”

Speaking of this, Hammond made a secret estimate, then shook his head lightly and said, "I think the highest altitude of Mr. Zhao's coffee garden will not exceed 300 meters. The quality of coffee beans produced in this environment will not be very good. .”

Afraid of Zhao Lei's embarrassment, Yu Zhengsheng quickly smoothed things over and said, "Master Zhao always surprises people a lot, let's not jump to conclusions, let's go up and see it!"

Hammond has already traveled a long distance from the UK to Malaysia, and of course he doesn't mind taking the extra steps. He popularized coffee knowledge to Zhao Lei along the way, and soon walked into the coffee garden.

There are also a handful of workers working the coffee gardens, picking the last ripe coffee cherries.When Hammond saw the coffee fruit at close range, he immediately showed a look of surprise, picked a few of them with his own hands, and put them in his mouth to chew slowly.

The more Hammond chewed, the more surprised he became, and he quickly asked Zhao Lei, "Are all the coffee cherries similar to those on this tree?"

Zhao Lei told Hammond with a smile: "All the coffee trees are of the same species and are planted together, so the quality of the fruit is almost exactly the same."

Hammond nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "It's interesting, Mr. Zhao, please take me to see other coffee fruits."

Hammond's attitude towards Zhao Lei has changed significantly, which shows that he is quite satisfied with the quality of these coffee cherries, and Yu Zheng who is next to him is secretly relieved.

Without any hesitation, Zhao Lei directly led the two of them to the sink behind the mountain, and said to Hammond with a smile, "All the coffee fruits harvested this time are here."

As soon as Zhao Lei finished speaking, Hammond shook his head and said, "Isn't that right? With the scale of the farm's coffee garden, it is impossible to have such a high yield. Do you have coffee gardens elsewhere?"

"I just have such a coffee garden, and the coffee fruits here are all produced by this coffee garden." Zhao Lei told Hammond seriously: "We have done a statistic, and the average yield of each coffee tree is 720 kilograms!"

Hammond was shocked and said: "This is almost twice the normal output. How can there be so many?"

Before Zhao Lei could answer, Yu Zheng said to Hammond with a smile: "You don't know that, Master Zhao's main business is high-tech agriculture, and the most popular ingredients of Xiangou brand in the market are all from his company. What’s so strange about cultivating high-yield and high-quality coffee trees?”

Although strictly speaking, Hammond is not a person in the gourmet circle, but he is a master coffee baker after all, knows many famous chefs, and has heard of the name of the ingredient of fairy gourd.

This also made Hammond pay more attention to this matter, and said to Zhao Lei seriously: "Mr. Zhao, do you have processed coffee fruit? I want to take a closer look."

"Please come with me." Zhao Lei smiled slightly and took Hammond to the warehouse near the sink.

After the coffee fruit is rinsed by the pulp, the nuts are dried and stored here.

Generally speaking, in many ordinary coffee plantations, the processing of coffee cherries ends at this step.Next, according to the quality of the coffee kernels, they will be sold to coffee processing factories at different prices, and the roasting of coffee beans and other processes will be handed over to the manufacturers.

However, Xianhu Company has always taken the route of high-quality goods, and Zhao Lei has high hopes for these coffee beans, so of course it is impossible to do so.That's why Hammond, the master coffee roaster, was invited, hoping to launch coffee that will surprise everyone.

Hammond opened a bag of nuts, took a look inside, and said in shock: "Why are they all round nuts! Mr. Zhao, have you been sorted beforehand?"

Zhao Lei asked inexplicably, "What does round nuts mean?"

Seeing that Zhao Lei really didn't understand, Yu Zheng hurriedly explained to him: "Generally there are two kernels in the coffee fruit, which are called flat nuts. Only a very small number of coffee fruits have only one kernel. The kernels are round, what Hammond calls round kernels."

Zhao Lei asked curiously, "What's the difference between these two kinds of nuts?"

"The shape of the round nuts determines that they can better preserve the aroma of coffee when roasted, so the price is much higher than that of the flat nuts." Yu Zheng then told Zhao Lei: "But because the number of round nuts is very small , generally need to be picked out manually. Almost all the nuts in this bag are round, which is really very rare."

Only then did Zhao Lei know the reason for Hammond's surprise, and told him calmly: "I just remembered when you said that the coffee fruits harvested this time are almost all round nuts, but there are very few flat nuts, almost can not see!"

Hammond stared dumbfounded at the dozens of pockets of nuts in front of him, and couldn't help but marvel in a low voice, "It's all round nuts, this, this is simply a miracle!"

Zhao Lei smiled and said: "Mr. Hammond, you should believe now that you didn't come here in vain, right?"

"Absolutely not. I also want to solemnly apologize to you for my previous attitude!" Hammond sincerely apologized to Zhao Lei, and then said eagerly: "I will start roasting a batch of coffee beans now and see how the quality is!"

(End of this chapter)