Panamanian Rosa Coffee: Geisha Coffee compared with Jamaica Blue Mountain and Hawaii Kona Kona

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This article will introduce.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, bought in large quantities by Japan.

Hawaiian Kona Coffee, delicious Coffee from the Island

Rosa Coffee, the winner of coffee competitions and cup tests

People always look for the best things, looking for the most mellow wine, the most charming cigars or the noblest champagne, etc., and coffee is the same, it is happy to drink good coffee, so people also begin to pursue better coffee, from the former Jamaica Blue Mountains or Hawaiian Kona to the most popular Rose Summer Coffee, people have been looking for the most distinctive and delicious coffee beans.

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Jamaica Blue Mountain Blue Mountain

Jamaica Blue Mountain, known as Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee in English, used to be all-powerful in competitions and bidding arenas. Its taste is very balanced and smooth. Because it is planted in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, the top blue mountain coffee can only be grown at an altitude of more than 2000 meters. The Blue Mountains are the highest mountains around the Caribbean Sea, rich soil and high-altitude climate, bringing the special flavor of coffee here. Some people say that Blue Mountain can maintain a certain balance of taste at any temperature, while WALLENFORD, MAVIS BANK, SILVER HILL, MOY HALL and GOLD CUP are well-known estates of Blue Mountain Coffee.

The History of Blue Mountain Coffee

The history of Jamaican coffee can be traced back to the 18th century. The British introduced coffee trees to Jamaica and planted coffee in the Blue Mountains. Among them, it is divided into high-altitude pure blue mountain coffee, alpine blue mountain coffee beans, upper blue mountain coffee beans and low-altitude blue mountain coffee beans. Different grades also determine different prices.

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Confrontation with Natural Climate & timely Assistance from Japan

And coffee, like all crops, depends on heaven for food. We, who belong to the island of Taiwan, which is often ravaged by typhoons, can better understand that a huge wind and rain may destroy the whole batch of crops, and Jamaica is also deeply affected by hurricanes. As long as there are hurricanes, they often lead to birth problems in the production of coffee beans, which are greatly affected in terms of taste and yield. Under such circumstances, the Japanese UCC company has helped to bring in a way of planting that can withstand hurricanes, so the Jamaican government, in gratitude for Japan's assistance, allows Japan to buy Blue Mountain coffee every year. 70% to 80% of Blue Mountain coffee is owned by the Japanese first. In order to emulate the taste of Blue Mountain, other manors and countries use coffee beans with similar tastes, but there is still a certain difference in taste, which is called Blue Mountain flavor or Blue Mountain mixed coffee. a real Blue Mountain will cost more than NT $1500 a pound.

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The island can also produce boutique coffee

Hawaiian Kona, known as Hawaii Kona in English, must also be found in expensive coffee beans. Unexpectedly, Hawaiian Kona can grow amazing coffee beans on a holiday island in Hawaii. Kona coffee is divided into four top grades: Extra Fancy, Fancy, Prime and Gr. No.1, known as Hawaii, occupies a small area, so items are rarer and more expensive, and the price is as high as the Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica, in part because of labor. How to say that ? Most coffee farmers grow in third world countries, and their profits and benefits are often squeezed to circulate on the market at cheaper prices, but Hawaiian labor falls into the category of Americans, and natural costs rise.

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The baking degree should be more palatable

The advice for roasting Kona coffee is not to roast it too deep, keeping it as light as Blue Mountain, because too much roasting will lose the sweet and sour taste of the coffee, which is the essence of Kona coffee. Many supermarket packaged Kona coffee beans are low-content mixtures. Before buying, you should pay careful attention to the percentage of Kona beans on the package, usually ranging from 10% to 50%. Many even add seasoning to fill the flavor, losing the opportunity to taste the original Kona flavor. Real Kona coffee, like other coffee beans, will mark the manor, batch number, weight, and handling.

Rose Coffee (Geisha Coffee, Geisha)

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After introducing the first two heavyweight seniors, I would like to introduce the protagonist this time-Rosa Coffee, which is Geisha Coffee in English. Because the transliteration is the same as the Japanese geisha, it has the name of geisha coffee, but many baristas do not like this title. They think that this coffee should not have the impression of a Japanese geisha, so more and more people use the name Rose Summer in Chinese. Literally, it is also more beautiful.

A foreign prince: take root and become king again

Rosa Coffee was carried forward on the estate of Panama, but it is the story of an alien prince who succeeded in becoming the new king. The rose summer coffee tree species was discovered in Ethiopia, and then transferred from the coffee research institute in Kenya to many African countries such as Uganda and Tanzania. It is a kind of coffee that has not been taken seriously, but only for research.

After someone later introduced Rose Summer to Costa Rica, through the connection of Don Pachi Manor, Rosa Coffee was brought into Panama, and some Rosa trees can be seen in each manor because they were used as windbreaks for coffee trees, yes, you read correctly that they are windbreaks, and the output of Rosa trees is unstable, often mixed with ordinary coffee beans, not a major coffee bean project. It was not until around the year 2000 that a manor found that the taste of Rose Summer was actually very delicious, and he was not sure whether the taste would cater to unruly coffee lovers.

The victorious army of the coffee industry

In the summer of 2003, Rose won the first place in the Best Panama for the first time, produced by the famous Emerald Manor. Many baristas marveled after drinking Rose Summer for the first time, with a Cinderella story. The originally humble windbreak tree turned into a star coffee tree. In the following ten years until today, Rose Xia is still the first choice in the major cup tests and coffee competitions, and it has become the mainstream of the boutique in the market compared with Blue Mountain and Ke Na.

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A journey to search for roots

The aforementioned rose summer was found in Ethiopia, so it naturally aroused many explorers to look for the roots of rose summer. Both Willem Boot, the founder of La Mula mule estate, and Joseph Brodsky, the founder of Ninety Plus, have done this, but there is no special harvest. Nature is so wonderful. Some people grow rosy summer coffee all over the world, even in Taiwan, but it is not as amazing in flavor as in Panama, but it is also an excellent coffee bean. It is believed that each coffee variety has a most suitable temperature, soil, climate and other factors, so it is a pipe dream to easily replicate the taste buds of coffee.

The problem of baking degree

The popularity of boutique coffee is a bugle. More and more coffee shops begin to pay attention to coffee beans and the use of home-baked beans. Many people wonder why coffee beans are mostly medium-roasted. The reason probably has something to do with Taiwan's established impression of coffee. Most of the coffee is bitter and slightly sour, but many individual coffees are only slightly roasted to highlight the sour taste of coffee, so moderate roasting brings out some bitterness and removes some acidity to better cater to the market. But in fact, there are a lot of beans are not suitable for shallow baking, sour uncomfortable is not suitable, baked beans and beans are also a great knowledge!