What on earth is the origin of Rose Summer? Rosa is a kind of coffee bean, which has nothing to do with Japanese geisha.

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Many friends ask, what on earth is the origin of Rose Summer?

In 1931, a team of botanists visited southwestern Ethiopia and found rose beans near the village of Guixia (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.

The first person to bring Rosa to Panama from Costa Rica was Pachi Serracin, the old owner of Don Patch Manor, in 1963 that year. Tang Patch's son also confirmed this when he came to Taipei at the Taipei Coffee Show last year. But rose summer was not popular in Panama at first. The production of rose summer is very low, the economic benefit is very poor, only mixed with other coffee beans to sell. Some rose summer trees can be found in each manor, and some even serve as windbreaks in the coffee garden. Until 2000, the little Peterson of Emerald Manor found that the flavor of Rose Summer was so charming that they were not sure whether consumers would accept it.

2003 Best Panama, Emerald Manor won the first place of the year by Rose Summer, and the strong and complex flavor surprised all the judges. In the following ten years, Rosa Rosa won all the raw bean competitions. Coffee farmers in Central and South America also flocked to it and began to grow Rosa in Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia, and other countries. Taiwan also had farms for trial planting. Although there is still a gap between the flavor and Panama, Rosa Rosa is like the golden bean in coffee, and no one wants to miss it.

Others hope to go back to the origin of Rose Summer and organize several expeditions into the primeval forests of southwestern Ethiopia. Willem Boot, the founder of La Mula, and Joseph Brodsky, the founder of Ninety Plus, are the other. But in the end, it was recognized that Panama seemed to be the best producer of rose summer in the world, and both men also set up estates in Panama to produce rose summer. Different treatments also bring different flavors to Rosa. From the beginning of washing to the later treatment of sun and honey, it has become more and more meticulous and complex, and now it is even fine-tuned in a customized way, according to the idea of the bean baker.

Rosa is a bean seed and has nothing to do with Japanese geisha.

Rosa is a bean seed and has nothing to do with Japanese geisha. In a film teaching, Willem Boot also specifically mentioned that he hoped that when talking about this bean, the image of a Japanese geisha would be removed from his mind. We agree with what he said, so we translate it into Rose Xia by sound.