Is Katim Coffee Bean Arabica Coffee Variety? Yunnan small Coffee Katim Variety Flavor

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Southern Yunnan happens to be located in low latitude, high altitude and large temperature difference between day and night. The unique advantages of natural conditions are especially suitable for the growth of small-grain coffee, and it is the most suitable area for producing high-quality coffee in the country. Yunnan coffee is mostly planted in dry and hot valleys at an altitude of 1000 to 2000 meters above sea level, so it has a moderate sour taste, rich and mellow aroma.

More than 90% of Yunnan coffee varieties are Catimor=Caturra x Timor. Although it carries the Robusta gene, after more than 20 years of optimization, the coffee bean not only removes the bitter and fishy smell, but also has a high-order flower and fruit rhyme and a wide taste range. I believe that it will soon be able to officially enter the boutique coffee industry, shocked the world!

Han Huaizong: "in fact, China is already the 17th largest coffee consumer in the world, surpassing Australia." I predict that in 16 years' time, China is expected to become one of the world's top three coffee consumers, alongside the United States and Brazil. "

Yunnan Coffee:

When it comes to Yunnan coffee, the first reaction of many people is small grain coffee. In fact, the name "small grain" is still open to question, and there are various versions of this name. One of the more credible ones is that, compared with Robusta's "medium grain", Arabica is called "small grain". At the beginning of its introduction, it was afraid that the name Arabica would not be easy to remember, so it was simply called Yunnan small grain coffee. Later, probably because of various misunderstandings, small-grain coffee was regarded as a variety by many people, but there is no such kind of "small-grain" coffee.

When it comes to varieties, the most cultivated variety of coffee in Yunnan is Katim coffee beans, a hybrid introduced by Nestl é, in which Robusta's pedigree is often criticized, but the characteristics of disease resistance, high yield and suitable for instant coffee make this variety vigorously promoted in Yunnan. And with the continuous improvement, there has been a great improvement in quality, and some decent beans have been produced. In addition to Katim coffee beans, Yunnan also grows a small number of iron cards, which is an old tree before the introduction of Katim coffee beans. generally speaking, it tastes better and the price is higher than Katim coffee beans. There are also some bourbon varieties.

As for the evaluation of Yunnan coffee is still somewhat controversial, some people think it is good, some people scoff. In my personal feeling, although there are good beans in Yunnan, there is still a gap between the overall quality and the high-quality beans in the world. The taste is generally flat and thin, and the level is weak.

In fact, the climate of Yunnan is quite suitable for coffee cultivation: high altitude and large temperature difference between day and night. But the biggest problem is that the overall quality is uneven, most farmers lack quality awareness, excessive pursuit of yield, picking, treatment methods, grading system can not keep up with, many are mixed mining and then their own simple classification, raw beans are processed by themselves. Yunnan beans have another characteristic is that the water uniformity is not very good, so the baking requirements are high. Yunnan coffee water is relatively deep in the market, and there is more coffee in the inferior situation. But now there are more and more coffee producers begin to pay attention to quality, the introduction of excellent varieties, manor management, in short, the development in recent years is quite fast, will give me a little surprise from time to time. Baoshan Lujiangba, Pu'er Man Laojiang River Basin, have tasted fairly good beans. As a domestic product, I still hope that Yunnan coffee will develop better and better.

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