Puerto Rico coffee brand Yauco Selecto AA Yukot choose coffee how to drink? Is it good?

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Yauco Selecto AA is a high-quality coffee located in Puerto Rico. It is a famous island bean, on a par with Hawaiian Cona beans and Caribbean beans.

Puerto Rico means "port of abundance". Coffee has been introduced to Puerto Rico for more than 250 years. Spain began to colonize and grow coffee in 1736. By the 19th century, coffee had become the second industry on the island. In the early 19th century, immigrants from the French island of Corsica were forced to farm in the high mountains of the southwest and decided that coffee was the main crop; the arable land was mainly around a town called Yauco. In 1860, there were two major events that established Yukot's position in bean selection.

The first thing: the Mariani family, for the first time, used the cotton gin machine to screen the cotton fiber to remove the shell of the coffee fruit, which had a revolutionary impact.

Second, the leader of Corsica growers, who financially supported the beans in the region, shipped them back to Europe's main coffee trading center and recommended them to buyers, which quickly received a wide response. Their hard work finally comes at a price!

In the 1860s, Puertorrican coffee, especially from the Yauco region, gained a reputation as premium coffee, and emperors and queens all over Europe were regarded as the best coffee. High society and widely drunk! Coffee-producing countries are also scrambling to emulate Puerto Rico's planting method. At that time, the production of this island ranked sixth in the world! (in other words, in Europe, gluttons started tasting boutique coffee a hundred years ago.)

Two devastating hurricanes hit Puerto Rico in 1898. The hurricane damaged the coffee industry and the war between the United States and Spain began in the same year, after the war with the Philippines and Cuba. Once again, the US government is only more interested in the sugar industry (like Spain at that time). The double whammy is that European countries no longer regard Puerto Rican coffee as a colonial product. Fortunately, in the first half of the 20th century, Cuba, an emerging market, bought most Puerto Rican coffee, but Yukot continued to sell to Europe to supply some glutton.

In 1917, Puerto Rico islanders became American citizens, which means that people enjoy a minimum wage and that coffee is as expensive to grow as Kona in Hawaii. The labor cost in Puerto Rico must meet the standards of the United States government and the environment in which coffee is grown, as well as the environmental protection policy of the United States, which actually increases the production cost in Puerto Rico! Under the high cost structure, the factors supporting the coffee industry in Puerto Rico are:

(1) because this island produces high-quality coffee! Under a free economy, if the quality is poor and uncompetitive, the local market can buy imported coffee, and it is even more difficult for the poor quality to be exported to other countries.

(2) the protection and care of the government, as there are traditional and high-quality crops, the government policy also encourages and assists the continuous cultivation of coffee.

(3) with the support of the island's residents, due to the increase in national income and the developed tourism industry, all the coffee produced on the island was sold domestically during the 25 years from 1965 to 1990.

The reason why Yukot chooses beans better than other producing areas on the island is that:

1. it is planted in the highest mountain area of the island, so it grows slowly and the fruit is rich in flavor.

2, only use bourbon and the old species of this island, although the yield is less, but in the Yauco mountain area, the flavor of the old species is not good.

It will have the disadvantage of poor flavor like the new commercial species.

3, abundant rainfall, rich soil and located in the best high-altitude microclimate area of the island

4. The two manors are self-made in the whole process from planting coffee seedlings to post-harvest treatment, and the quality control is very strict.

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