Nicaraguan coffee pointed bourbon natural semi-decaf coffee what is decaf coffee

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Nicaragua Mierisch El Minita Laurina Natural

Niagara Mieri boasts a natural semi-decaf coffee made from Minita's pointed body in the sun.

The natural extremely low caffeine, sparse, delicate and charming aroma of pointed bourbon is one of the oldest tree species in the world.

Bourbon Pointu, whose scientific name is Laurina, is the most primitive bourbon subspecies (Sub-Variety), from the island of Reunion near Madagascar (Madagascar). The leaves and plants of the coffee tree are smaller than the average, and the coffee is also smaller and pointed. It is also said to be the parent of the mocha species and is now the source of coffee trees in Latin America.

With very low caffeine, generally speaking, Arabica has about 1.2% caffeine, Robsta 2.2%, and pointed body bourbon (Laurina) is only 0.55%, which is much lower than more than half of the average Arabica.

The sweet aromas of tropical fruits and wildflowers are delicate and charming--

Natural low-cause variety

Two companies have to say about the discovery and cultivation of natural decaf coffee. Illy in Italy and ucc in Japan. The subjects they studied were beans called sharp-bodied bourbon.

Starting in 1989, illy failed experiments in Brazil and then transplanted to El Salvador as a surprise. Since 2008, Idillyum's natural semi-decaf espresso capsules have been sold. The yield of raw beans is not high, and the formula of Idillyum contains other Arabica beans, that is, impure pointed bourbon.

As early as the 1970s, when Yoshihiro Kawashima, an expert at ucc coffee in Uashima, Japan, was studying coffee cultivation in El Salvador, he heard an old farmer mention that "ancient, low-caffeine coffee trees may still live on French bourbon island." Later, he went to Africa to look for "ancient and decaffeinated coffee trees." And came back to nothing. A phone call in 2001 brought good news. Sure enough, it is the "bourbon piontu" that has disappeared for half a century. The plan to restore the pointed body bourbon in its earliest birthplace shocked the world. The low production of 700kg in 2006 led to the high price of 7350 yen per 100g for ucc in April 2007, which was five times more expensive than Blue Mountain that year.

In the world's major roasters looking for the cultivation of natural decaf coffee craze, a country can not be ignored. The development of natural low-caffeine coffee is actually a process of discovering and modifying coffee tree genes. As a result, Ethiopia, the birthplace of Arabica and a treasure trove of Arabica genes, has not yet joined the war. In 2008, officials from Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture announced that natural low-cause varieties had been found. And the matter is wrong, I do not know whether it is true or not.

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In the past, most of the natural low-caffeine varieties found by scientists came from Ethiopia, Mozambique or Madagascar and the Scarlin Islands. In 2008, a new breed of Cameroon coffee was found, "Charyeriana Coffee". It is self-pollinated like Arabica and the seeds are caffeine-free.

How to cultivate new coffee varieties with low cause, delicious taste and high yield has become a prominent study in the coffee planting industry in recent years.