Introduction to the original species of Ethiopian Coffee Bean Variety Heirloom

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Regular Ethiopian coffee drinkers should have heard of the [Heirloom native species], most Ethiopian varieties will be named after this name, in fact, because there are so many Ethiopian varieties, it is like the natural gene bank of Arabica, on the one hand, there are many varieties, and it is difficult to identify and classify them, on the other hand, the Ethiopian government is reluctant to disclose these species information for the sake of protection, so it is collectively called [Heirloom native species].

● first let's take a look at how Ethiopian coffee beans are grown and picked.

Generally speaking, coffee farmers may grow multiple varieties at the same time, or they may pick out the better varieties and sell them. In particular, Ethiopia, where coffee is mostly wild or semi-wild, grows in fields, backyards or under forests, and what coffee farmers receive is actually a large platter of many different natural varieties.

Wild coffee trees like to grow at the bottom of the forest. The tree species that can shade coffee is called "Shade Tree, or Shadow Tree"; such a planting method is called "Shade-grownCoffee". The advantage is that it can reduce the impact on the ecology, and a variety of organisms will also help to suppress diseases and insect pests. In some areas, bananas and other local food crops are used to shade coffee.

● Esser's coffee varieties have been recorded in nearly 2000 varieties, including 1927 native varieties and 128 imported varieties. So just by looking at the appearance, Esther's coffee variety is "Grand View Garden", which has everything, long, short, thin, fat.

[long granules] are found in all coffee growing areas in Ethiopia. From the actual proportion seen, there are more varieties of long granules in the western Jimma, including Limmu and Kaffa, and less in sidama (Sidamo) or yirgacheffe (Yega Chuefei).

[small particle species] the appearance is relatively round, the bean body is very small, mostly between 14-15 orders, this variety should be the most familiar to us, in Sidamo and Yegashiri can often see their figure, I have also seen in a harrar sample, also seen in Jimma local sales of coffee beans, compared to other regions, sidama and yigracheffe and surrounding arsi, guji have more native varieties of this small particles.

In addition to the wide variety of coffee, the way coffee is grown also affects the variety mix of Ethiopian coffee beans. )

Ethiopia's coffee cultivation is divided into:

● forest coffee forestcoffee (8-10%), coffee trees and other crops coexist in the primeval forest, without any artificial care, farmers will pick coffee fruits regularly.

● forest-semi-forest coffee semi-forestcoffee (30-35%), the coffee planting area is between the forest and the range of farmers' lives, coffee trees are naturally produced varieties like forestcoffee, and farmers will manage coffee planting areas and grow other cash crops.

● pastoral coffee gardencoffee (50-55%), coffee trees are planted around farmers' living areas, and most of them are grown by farmers themselves.

● plantation coffee plantationcoffee (5-6%), a large private grower, has more treatment facilities and production capacity.

Most of the coffee cultivation in Sidamo and Yega Xuefei belongs to the pastoral coffee model, in which coffee farmers plant coffee trees near their living areas and harvest them during the harvest season. it is then sent to a nearby treatment plant built on water for unified treatment (or purchased by a middleman). In addition to a small number of plantations that have the strength to grow, pick and handle raw coffee beans independently, many coffee beans from different regions and varieties will be centrally processed by the processing plant and then sent to the auction house for official evaluation and grading. This is one of the reasons why many Ethiopian coffee beans are named after processing plants or cooperatives, and it is also one of the reasons why the same batch of coffee beans are mixed with multiple coffee varieties. even the flavor of different batches of coffee beans produced by the same treatment plant will be significantly different.

Because Ethiopia, like Brazil and Indonesia, is graded according to the defect rate of coffee beans, there will be a significant imbalance in coffee particles, especially after roasting. Different coffee varieties have different degrees of roasting expansion, widening the difference between coffee bean particles. However, it is precisely because of this that the layering and richness of coffee are more obvious.

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