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Guo Zhangsheng, a Shibi villager in Gukeng Caoling, Yunlin County, founded the Songyue Coffee Brand. This year, he won the "Taiwan Coffee Top 12 + 1 Moon Lake Invitational Competition" symbolizing the highest honor of "crown in the crown". He will carefully select beans to participate in the boutique coffee competition hosted by the Council of Agriculture in Gukeng in the near future, with the goal of being promoted to international boutique coffee.

Guo Zhangsheng, a Shibi villager in Gukeng Caoling, Yunlin County, planted Taiwan's first alpine coffee tree. after more than 30 years of efforts, he founded the Songyue coffee brand, guided by boutique coffee, and regularly participated in the competition every year. In 2010, he won the honor of winning the first place in Asia with a high score of the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA). This year, he even won the highest honor of "Taiwan Coffee Top 12 + 1 Moon Lake Invitational Competition" symbolizing "crown". He carefully selected beans to participate in the boutique coffee competition organized by the Council of Agriculture in Gukeng in the near future, with the goal of being promoted to the international boutique coffee.

Guo Zhangsheng said that from the treatment of raw beans, there are sun drying, water washing, semi-washing and so on, the control of heat and time during baking, which must depend on the accumulation of experience, and the suitable varieties must have a suitable environment. The goal of introducing different varieties and improving them is to identify the quality of coffee beans through competitions, so as to determine the advantages and disadvantages of varieties or processes. Different varieties of coffee taste very different all over the world, but Taiwan's alpine climate is cool and pleasant, and there is a bit of sweetness in the coffee. I hope that the government can set up special testing grounds, improvement sites, pest control, coffee research institutions, and so on. He stressed that Taiwan's coffee environment and future trend may become a bright spot in the world.

"the government attaches great importance to Taiwanese coffee." Guo Zhangsheng said that because no one planted it at that time, he tried to plant coffee trees on his family's farmland at the age of 19. Apart from few people with planting experience in 1981, there was no machinery related to coffee processing in China. It was completely done by hand, from shelling to baking, and there was no access to coffee products. At first, there were many difficulties. In the face of questions from his family, the price of Gaoshan tea was good, and everyone swarmed to plant it. In order to explain to the family, due to the pressure of survival, the land has been changed to grow high mountain tea, and the sales have gradually risen. In 2001, Taiwan began to blow a trend of coffee. In the face of inner strife, it decided to give up the cultivation of high mountain tea and regain its enthusiasm for growing coffee. I have confidence in the unique environment of my hometown Gukeng.

The American boutique coffee association is the largest not-for-profit professional coffee organization in the world. The association hopes to establish a platform for people to communicate coffee-related matters in a standardized and acceptable way, and to give recognition to good coffee beans. After winning the award, the position of Songyue boutique coffee has been more established. Guo Zhangsheng put him on the road of coffee research through enthusiasm. The bigger goal is to let the grown coffee beans enter the international boutique coffee market, so that foreign gluttons have the opportunity to taste the charming flavor of Taiwan's geisha coffee.