Yunnan Coffee Bean varieties and Brands introduction to the Flavor characteristics and stories of small Coffee beans in Katim, Yunnan

In recent years, Yunnan coffee has suddenly "squeezed" into the boutique coffee circle from nobody. Lucky, manner, Blue bottle Coffee, Seesaw and other well-known coffee brands love Yunnan coffee even more! Whenever these brands launch Yunnan coffee bean products, they will arouse discussion and support from coffee lovers, and the price of Yunnan coffee beans is also on the rise.

Why has Yunnan coffee been paid attention to by everyone in recent years? One is that the rise of the national tide has led to everyone's support for domestic products, and the other is that the support of various coffee brands to Yunnan coffee has enabled Yunnan farmers to have more scientific planting techniques to improve their output and quality. at the same time, the technology of treatment also gives Yunnan coffee beans a more unique flavor, attracting the attention of a new generation of young consumers.

Although Yunnan coffee has been paid more and more attention, the flavor of coffee production area has not been defined for a long time. When the term boutique coffee was proposed, it means that under specific climatic and geographical conditions, Yanyun has a unique producing area flavor, while the producing area flavor refers to the coffee bean itself producing a flavor that can identify the coffee producing area under specific conditions. For example, when we drink bright sour coffee, we will think of Yega Xuefei's coffee beans, but the flavor of Yunnan has not been determined yet.

Qianjie Coffee believes that the reason is that the Katim varieties mainly grown in Yunnan coffee beans are not clean enough and the levels are not clear enough. Secondly, because there are many special treatments of Yunnan coffee beans on the market, consumers' influence on Yunnan coffee beans mostly stays on the unique flavor, and the flavor memory of Yunnan coffee varieties is not deep. If you want coffee consumers to have a long-term impact on Yunnan coffee beans, the choice of coffee varieties is very important.

As a result, Qianjie Coffee has mainly grown iron pickup varieties and a small number of bourbon varieties in Lincang, Yunnan since 2013. One of the reasons for choosing the tin card variety is that, as one of the oldest coffee varieties, the gene of the pure Arabica variety, which owns the pure Arabica variety, has always been recognized as a fine coffee variety because of its elegant and clean flavor. One reason is that the earliest coffee trees planted in Yunnan are also iron pickup varieties, brought in by French missionaries.

Although Yunnan planted tin coffee trees on a large scale for a period of time because the state had to repay the Soviet Union, after the repayment was over, because there were few people in need of coffee in the country, many farmers cut down the coffee trees and replanted other crops with economic benefits. It was not until Nestl é took a fancy to Yunnan in the 1990s and distributed Katim coffee trees that are better resistant to leaf rust that coffee trees were replanted and supplied to Nestl é. However, because Katim has the gene of the Robusta variety, its flavor is not as good as people want, and it is not good to drink directly, so the influence of Yunnan coffee is on the instant coffee.

Katim is not pure Arabica blood, it is a hybrid of Timor (belonging to Robbsta) and caturra (Bourbon), so catimor has 25% Robbsta blood, and its Robusta blood also determines its taste defects: the aroma is not rich enough, and the overall taste is bitter, prone to astringent taste and more irritating mildew, but its output is several times that of iron pickup. So Yunnan has planted a large number of Katim varieties for many years, and has not paid too much attention to the quality of coffee, providing raw materials for Nestl é.

Therefore, before the conventional treatment of Yunnan coffee directly tasted, the flavor and taste are so unsatisfactory, so Yunnan coffee has not been paid attention to. Until the maturity of the special treatment technology in recent years, people began to apply the special treatment to Yunnan Katim coffee beans, which changed the bad taste through external intervention, and consumers gradually accepted Yunnan coffee.

Then why not just change to a variety of tin cards? Because a coffee tree takes at least 4 years from planting to producing commercial value, the time and manpower spent during this period are very high, so the bad taste can only be changed by treatment. But this may be a way to lead further and further in the wrong direction.

There is no conflict between Katim coffee beans and iron pickup coffee beans, one is raw materials, the other is fine coffee, the existence of high-quality coffee is to improve quality, the significance of raw materials is to increase output, it is inevitable that Yunnan will be dominated by Katim. However, on the surface, the confusion of the two seems to solve the problem of the way out of Yunnan coffee. In fact, coffee is still those coffees, and the elevation of the varieties has not changed. It is only mentioned that the post-treatment method emphasizes that the quality is improving a bit far-fetched.

In order to solve the problem of the current 2 million acreage coffee, it is too simple and rude to emphasize the label of good coffee after the coffee fruit is picked, and the people who raise this evaluation do not really understand Yunnan coffee. From the point of view of the growers, encourage and support the basic compliance of fine coffee rules from the altitude of the varieties. This may be another attempt for the healthy and sustainable development of Yunnan coffee producing areas. It is difficult to have fine coffee in a producing area, but only when the washing method tastes good and presents the main flavor every year is the beginning of Yunnan boutique coffee.

So Qianjie Coffee chose to set up its own manor from the very beginning and planted a variety of iron pickup coffee. Although there are not many Yunnan Tieka coffee beans in Qianjie until 2022, there are only more than 600 kilograms, which can be sold in Qianjie coffee Taobao store and produced by Qianjie coffee store. But only after experiencing the whole process, will you know the insufficient space and constantly improve and improve. Also due to changes in coffee varieties, "Qianjie 2013 Yunnan Iron pickup Coffee beans" uses traditional sun treatment, but its flavor is very full and attractive, with Brin, berries, brown sugar, black tea, nut flavor.

In addition to Qianjie Yunnan Sun Iron pickup truck, Qianjie Coffee also has a Katim coffee bean from Baoshan, Yunnan Province, which is part of the Qianjie coffee signature rations bean series. This Yunnan small grain coffee bean allows everyone to taste the flavor of Yunnan producing area with the highest performance-to-price ratio. The series also has six major coffee producing areas, including Ethiopia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil and Indonesia, with representative coffee beans. Coffee rookies / beginners who don't know what coffee beans to buy can first try Qianjie coffee rations to determine their own requirements for the taste of coffee.

All coffee beans sold in Qianjie Coffee are shipped within five days of the baking date. Only freshly roasted coffee beans can reflect the best flavor of coffee! In order to retain the sweet and sour and tea characteristics of Yunnan coffee, Qianjie coffee roasted it moderately. When brewing, you can use V60 filter cup, 1:15 powder-water ratio, medium grinding (about the size of coarse sugar / 75% of China 20 standard sieve), water temperature of 88-89 degrees.

Specific cooking methods: the first injection of 30g water, 30 seconds of steaming; the second small amount of water was injected around 125g, waiting for the powder bed water to half, and then injected into 225g, after all the drip filtration, the total extraction time was about 2 minutes and 10 seconds.

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