What are the flavor and taste characteristics of Brazilian coffee yellow bourbon? How to cook Brazilian yellow bourbon coffee beans

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What are the flavor and taste characteristics of Brazilian coffee yellow bourbon? How to cook Brazilian yellow bourbon coffee beans?

Treatment: natural sun drying

The so-called bourbon species (Bourbon) is native to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. The green fruit appears bright red when ripe, while the yellow bourbon species is interbred with other varieties, and the fruit is yellow when ripe.

Bourbon is a branch of Typica, a variety of Arabica coffee beans. It is native to Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean (now known as Reunion Island). It is mainly planted in Central and South America, including El Salvador, Brazil (Barzil), Rwanda, Panama (Banama). Wait for the place. The early Bourbon was a variant of Ethiopian Typica after it was transplanted to Yemen. France began to transplant Yemeni mocha round beans to Bourbon Island on the east coast of Africa (renamed Reunion Island after the French Revolution) in 1715. Bourbon beans also spread to Brazil and Central and South America in 1727, and it was also Bourbon beans that Britain transplanted Yemeni mocha to St. Helena Island in 1732. The biggest difference between its appearance and the iron pickup is that the leaves are wider, the fruiting coffee fruit is smaller, and the production is more intensive, so the appearance difference of the coffee fruit compared with the iron pickup is that the fruit body is smaller and more round. Bourbon is the winner of the American boutique coffee cup test.

Generally ripe coffee beans show a red color, but mature coffee grown in bourbon shows a yellow color, so it is generally called Yellow Bourbon. In Brazil, which is the largest exporter of coffee beans in the world, Huangbourne accounts for less than 1%, which is very precious and rare.

Brazilian yellow bourbon coffee beans are difficult to cultivate and have low yield. Roasted coffee beans are dry and sweet with nutty and cocoa / chocolate aromas. Yellow bourbon beans usually use half-sun (or half-water washing), and some bourbon varieties have fruit aromas, especially the aroma and sweetness of cooking.

Hand-washed Brazilian yellow bourbon steaming

When hand-flushing yellow bourbon coffee beans, it is recommended that the ratio of coffee beans to water is roughly as follows:

15 grams of yellow bourbon coffee beans are scaled and ground into powder and flushed with 92 degrees hot water and steamed with about 45 grams of water for about 30 seconds to brew about 220 grams of coffee (about 2 scarps and 3 mugs) at a time by continuous water.

Hot coffee has a cocoa / chocolate aroma on the palate with a sweet taste of caramel.

The cold coffee has a slightly sour taste that blends with the original cocoa / chocolate flavor, and the finished caramel will taste sweet in the mouth.