What on earth is the origin of geisha? geisha 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 geisha?

In 1931, a team of botanists visited southwestern Ethiopia and found rose beans near the village of geisha. 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 geisha 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 geisha was not popular in Panama at first. The production of geisha is very low, the economic benefit is very poor, only mixed with other coffee beans to sell. Some geisha 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 geisha 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 geisha, and the strong and complex flavor surprised all the judges. In the following ten years, Geisha won all the raw bean competitions. Coffee farmers in Central and South America also flocked to it and began to grow geisha 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, Geisha is like the golden bean in coffee, and no one wants to miss it.

Others hope to go back to the origin of geisha 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 geisha in the world, and both men also set up estates in Panama to produce geisha. Different treatments also bring different flavors to geisha. 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.

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

geisha 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.