How does the coffee industry define Robusta and Arabica coffee beans? Roberta coffee beans

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Manning's Robusta pedigree, Arabica beans or Katim or Katim?

What's the difference between Arabica coffee beans and Roberta coffee beans? It has nothing to do with botany, it has nothing to do with boutique coffee, or even whether we drink a cup of pure Arabica boutique coffee, this is a business-led world.

Two days ago, the coffee shop (official account: cafe_style) posted an article entitled "what's the difference between Arabica coffee beans and Roberta coffee beans?" Fans raised two very important questions. Why Arabica accounts for 80% of the production, Arabica is a small seed, Robosta is a medium seed, and why Arabica is often equated with Roberta.

Here is a very important point to share: although we insist that Arabica is almost synonymous with boutique coffee, the industry has sold Robusta to you, whether you like it or not. And Manning, so far, is the only boutique coffee in the world that justifiably provides Luodou for you to drink, a body very heavy coffee. Yes, Manning varieties have Arabica tin cards, as well as a large number of varieties with Arabica crosses, Luodou hybrids, Lasuna, Kaddura, Katim … Hybrids are common, but hybrids of Luodou are not common in all producing areas.

As we all know, in the 1970s, the coffee industry faced the impact of rust, the global coffee industry encountered a cold winter, which is only for Arabica growers, for Robusta, it is only the beginning of spring. Because Robusta is a great invention, through the hybridization of medium and small seeds, Robusta can acquire the immunity of Luodou to iron rust without the requirement of growth height in a high temperature and humidity environment. The yield is more than double that of Arabica, and Cajun is more willing to plant Robusta with higher returns.

If the coffee industry only stays at this point in time, everyone is drinking instant coffee, and there is no development of boutique coffee, perhaps this is the best ending of the story. But you never know, coffee is about to start to drink flavor, Robusta's quality and flavor is very different from that of Arabica, and Luodou hybrids promoted in emerging growing areas to cope with rust have accounted for a large part of coffee production. So people came up with a way to equate Arabica beans with Arabica beans.

The example around us is an example of this absurd hypothesis. Traditionally, we would bring Arabica tin card to Binchuan Jugula as the starting point of Chinese coffee, but the real starting point of modern Chinese coffee industry is to grow Katim for Nestl é in order to earn foreign exchange. When the boutique coffee industry started, we only had small and medium-sized hybrids, and there was no large-scale planting of small seeds, so we called Katim with Luodou gene in Yunnan as "Yunnan small-grain coffee" equally.

Historical experience tells us that this method is effective and widely accepted by the market. Every year during the coffee season, a large number of coffee industry people go to the mountains of Yunnan to take Katim to the city with eyebrows and beards to let the guests seriously evaluate. Some of the so-called official coffee trading centers recommend all the boutique beans, yes, all the same Katim and score them, you know, these activities are introduced by practitioners with long experience in the boutique coffee industry and coffee reviewers. Although they knew exactly what boutique coffee was, it did not hinder the performance of the emperor's new clothes. Why is this the case in reality? there is only one answer, this, or it is just a business for everyone.

For people in the industry and coffee, it doesn't matter whether you drink a cup of pure 100% Arabica boutique coffee, nor does Robusta become one of the boutique coffee. In the future, perhaps the market will widely accept Robusta as the existence of boutique beans.

The important thing is that those who like coffee need to know

What is Arabica?

What is Robusta?

What is a single bean.

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