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What is geisha coffee? What is Geisha coffee?

If you are a coffee fan, you are no stranger to Geisha.

If you are new to the world of boutique coffee, you should learn about this legendary coffee variety.

Is it called geisha coffee (Geisha) from Japan? In fact, this kind of coffee has nothing to do with Japanese geisha culture, just because this coffee variety is originally called Gesha/Geisha, and its pronunciation is similar to that of Japanese geisha, so it is translated into geisha coffee. Taiwanese may call it Rose Summer Coffee.

Geisha, a wild coffee variety originally grown in southwestern Ethiopia, was brought to the coffee estate in Boquete district of Panama in 1963. Because of its poor yield and high tree species, it was planted next to the coffee farm as a windbreak.

2004 was a year that changed the fate of Geisha.

In that year, in order to participate in the national coffee competition, the son of the coffee farm searched all the coffee trees in the estate to test, only to find Geisha accidentally.

In the competition, Geisha won the championship with a strong and complex flavor, a blockbuster, one of which described it as God in a cup, and then won the championship for four consecutive years.

In the auction house, Geisha also broke many high price records.

Compared with the typical Panamanian coffee flavor, geisha's distinctive features are impressive, full of jasmine aromas, sour and sweet flavors of orange, lemon and honey, clean and soft on the palate.

Slightly sour but not bitter, full of flower and fruit aroma, no wonder some people describe it as coffee that does not look like coffee.

Try the charm of Geisha:

Santa Felisa Mist Mountain Geisha

Guatemala El Injerto Auction Lot African Geisha

Panama Kotowa Mandarina Geisha

Tips for brewing geisha coffee

-- how to show the sour aroma of medium-light roasted coffee

Since the "Jade Manor Geisha" was put on the shelves, it has been loved by everyone, especially the charming sweet and sour taste of jasmine, orange and grapefruit, and the flavor of caramel and cocoa brought by the drop in temperature.

-- how do you cook such a flavor?

Many friends want to buy it, but are afraid to wash it out, spoiling good beans and hesitating again and again.

In fact, as long as you follow a few principles, you can also get a cup of elegant geisha coffee.

Key points to be noted:

(1) to control the water temperature, it is recommended to control the water temperature. generally speaking, low temperature coffee is easy to sour, but if it is elegant and beautiful fruit acidity, lower temperature, it can perform better!

(2) for cooking time, 2 cups are recommended for 2 cups, 2 cups for 2 cups, and 3 cups for 3 cups.

(3) concentration ratio, elegant flavor needs space to express, should pay attention to avoid too high concentration, or even a little light, will have more flower and fruit tea feeling, the recommended ratio is 1:15 (1 cup bean 12g, brewing coffee liquid 180cc; 2 cup beans 20g, brewing coffee liquid 300cc; 3 cup bean 30g, brewing coffee liquid 450cc)

(4) Grinding scale, do not grind too fine, easy to cause excessive extraction, bitter and astringent taste increase, ex. Pegasus suggested a scale of 4.5.

Postscript

Beautiful sweet and sour fruit, flowers, tea. This is often the characteristic of a high-quality boutique bean. In order to show these delicate and elegant flavors, the roasting degree of coffee should not be too deep, and it is generally set between shallow roasting and medium-shallow roasting (that is, when the coffee is roasted into an explosion, when the bursting sound is nearing the end). In this way, beans take five days to mature and enter the moment of best flavor.

The Jade Geisha Manor, the highest output value coffee farm in the world.

Beautiful reverie: geisha Coffee

Geisha is the most legendary variety in the coffee industry. Pinyin Geisha has caused great controversy among coffee people in Europe and the United States. Translated as "Gai Sha" and "Guisha", there are a lot of people, which is the same as Japanese literature and art, and has nothing to do with it but is interesting.

Geisha in Panama

In 1963, Pachi Serracin, the old owner of Don Pachi Manor, was the first manor brought back from Costa Rica to grow, known as the father of a Panamanian geisha. The estate is located in Boquete, on the east side of the Bar ú volcano. But the production of geisha is very low, the economic benefit is very poor, and it is not popular in Panama to sell only other kinds of coffee beans. After that, some kabuki trees can be found in each manor, even as a windbreak in the coffee garden.

Emerald Manor (La Esmeralda), Bank of Swedish Retirement in November 1967

Home Rodolfo Peterson (Rudolph A. Peterson) was bought by Hans, a Swede who moved to Palmira Boquete. The coffee garden built by Hans Elliot is used to spend his twilight years. The old coffee garden has always existed. After 1987, it was gradually transformed into a coffee estate. In 1994, the manor set up its own coffee processing and washing plant to deal with the coffee cherries harvested in the park. Other varieties planted in the manor are Typica, Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon.

2004 was a turning point for both geisha and jade manor, which won the crown of Panama with geisha, and the strong and complex flavor surprised all the judges. After all, in Panama's unique Boquete, 1400-1700 meters above sea level. Volcanic soil and pollution-free water sources, coupled with high-altitude climate, blow sea breezes from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts all the year round, and mountain villages are shrouded in clouds, slowing down the rate of fruit ripening, creating an excellent balanced taste and fresh acidity of coffee. The second generation owner of the manor, Daniel Peterson (Daniel), classifies the coffee beans produced by the two regions of the manor (the original jade estate in the southwest of Boquete and the new Jaramillo producing area in 1996), tests and compares the elegant citrus fruit and sweet coffee beans, and divides the high altitude variety-GEISHA (geisha) to establish the coffee history.

Geisha Jade Manor won the title of best coffee in Panama since 2004 and set a record price of $21 per pound at auction;! 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 all won the crown. It rose to $50.25 in 2006 and soared to $130 per pound of raw beans in 2007 when it won the Baker's Society Cup Test (SCAA Roasters Guild Cupping Pavilion Competition) for the third time under the American boutique coffee association. In 2010, the jadeite geisha won the title of "Best of Panama of Panama" (BOP) for the sixth time, with a record high of $180.2 per pound. The 2013 Esmeralda Special Natural BOP auction hit a sky-high price of $350.25 per pound, which the industry believes should be the ultimate price for boutique bean auctions.

The Emerald Manor has won numerous awards and become the coffee farm with the highest frequency of award-winning in the world. The annual output of Panamanian coffee is not much, about 8 dry tons to 11, 000 tons, while Esmeralda Special planting climate, careful harvesting and innovative treatment, annual production of about 100 packets, each pack of carton 22.67KG is rare and valuable (about 5000 pounds). The annual revenue at the auction price of 180 US dollars per pound is about 900000 US dollars; the average annual revenue of the 20-centimeter jadeite plantation is about 45, 000 US dollars per hectare, which is the highest output coffee farm in the world.

Note 1) the best jade geisha in the world:

Champion of Panama Best Coffee Cup Test (BOP) (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)

Panama Best Coffee Cup Test (BOP runner-up (2011)

American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) Cup Test Champion of the Roasters Association (2005, 2006, 2007)

American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) Coffee Cup of the year runner-up (2008, 2009)

American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) sixth place in Best Coffee Cup of the year (2010)

Note 2) Don Holly, a former BOP (Best of Panama) judge, first tasted the orange and floral flavor of a geisha and exclaimed, "I finally saw the face of God in my coffee cup!" The Emerald Manor has since become a pilgrimage for boutique coffee fans around the world.

Note 3) during the geisha's search for roots, it was discovered that the geisha species came from the Gesha Forest in southwestern Ethiopia in 1931. A team of botanists visited southwestern Ethiopia and found geisha beans near Gesha. The trees are quite tall and the seeds are larger than the average Ethiopian beans. They took the seeds to Kenya, planted them in nurseries and grew up five years later. They took the fruits from the healthiest samples and brought them to Uganda and Tanzania. In 1953, CATIE, a Costa Rican research institute, acquired some seeds from Tanzania for research.

Note 4) according to Forbes, the ten most expensive coffee in the world are: geisha coffee (Hacienda la Esmeralda Geisha), civet coffee (Kopi Luwak), St. Helena coffee (Island of St. Helena Coffee), El Injerto, Fazenda Santa Ines, Blue Mountain, Los Planes, Kona Coffee, Starbucks Rwanda Blue Bourbon, Yauco Selecto Coffee.

Note 5) Coffee farm with the highest output value in the world [Jade Manor]

Panama / Hacienda La Esmeralda / Canas Verdes

The manor was founded in 1996 with an area of 200 hectares.

The planting area is 20 hectares

Planting altitude 1450-1700

Production of about 100 bags of X 22.67Kg (cartons)

The annual rainfall is about 4200 mm

The average annual temperature is 15 ℃

Soil type volcanic soil

Coffee variety Geisha

Grade SHB

Water washing method for the treatment of coffee produced

Manual harvesting by harvest method

Harvest period from December to March