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In recent years, Starbucks China has been launching Yunnan Zhenxuan coffee and launching the first Yunnan Zhenxuan coffee bean-Pu'er Baoshan integrated coffee bean. This Yunnan coffee bean is the result of Starbucks China and Yunnan Cajun taking root in Yunnan. They show the charm of Yunnan high-quality coffee to the world. Not only Starbucks, but also more and more coffee merchants have turned their attention to Yunnan coffee.

Qianjie Coffee is also very concerned about Yunnan Coffee, and has set up its own coffee farm in Baoshan, Yunnan Province, so it is more clear about the difficult road of Yunnan Coffee. In this article, let's talk about Yunnan coffee in front of the street coffee.

I believe many people have heard of coffee producing countries such as Kenya, Brazil and Guatemala, which are located in the equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer, which we call the Coffee Belt. Yunnan, which is introduced by Qianjie Coffee in this article, is also within this range! In addition to Yunnan, Taiwan, Hainan and Yunnan are all located in the golden belt where coffee is grown, and all produce coffee.

Among them, Yunnan, known as the "south of colorful clouds", is not only famous for its fragrance of tea, but also an important coffee bean producing area in the world! Yunnan Province has a coffee planting area of 1.8 million mu, and the 2015-2016 harvest season has ended. According to preliminary statistics, the province's coffee output reached 139000 tons, accounting for 99% of China's coffee and 1% of the world's coffee production. The Fengwu Xiangyun coffee bean ™launched by Starbucks is a high-quality Arabica coffee bean from Yunnan.

When did Yunnan start growing coffee? According to Qianjie, the most accurate statement is that in the 30th year of Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty (1904), Tian Deneng, a French Catholic missionary, was sent to Zhu Kula Village in Binchuan County and planted the first coffee tree for his own drinking. Subsequently, coffee was grown in Dehong, Baoshan, Lincang, Pu'er and other places in Yunnan, among which Baoshan and Pu'er coffee are the most famous.

What's the flavor of Yunnan coffee? From the lack of interest in Yunnan coffee ten years ago to the current fire of Yunnan coffee, Qianjie Coffee believes that this is the performance of Yunnan coffee progress. Although Yunnan coffee cannot be compared with high-quality coffee-producing countries such as Colombia, the quality of Yunnan coffee beans has been on the rise this year. Qianjie Coffee also has coffee beans from Baoshan, Yunnan, such as Huaguoshan coffee beans, sun Katim and Yunnan small coffee beans.

The varieties of sunny Katim and Yunnan small grain coffee are both Katim varieties, and Katim varieties are the most common varieties of Yunnan coffee. The variety of Huaguoshan Coffee in Qianjie Coffee is different from that of these two kinds of coffee beans. In fact, it was not the Katim variety that was planted in Yunnan at the beginning, but the iron pickup variety and bourbon variety. Because the disease resistance of iron pickup is poor, and the yield is not high, Yunnan farmers spend a lot of time planting iron pickup and bourbon varieties, but they can not get back the cost in the end, while katim coffee not only has high disease resistance, but also has a very high yield. therefore, Yunnan katim farmers generally plant Katim to replace iron pickup varieties, but there are still some areas in Yunnan to grow tin card varieties. The estates of Qianjie Coffee are also growing tin card varieties.

With the progress of the times, Yunnan coffee has gone abroad, and last year's publicity of the movie "coming Home at one Point" made everyone want to try the legendary "Pu'er Coffee". Yunnan contributes 98% of China's coffee production, and about 60% of Yunnan coffee does come from Pu'er, which is often referred to as small-grain coffee. The small grains of coffee produced in Yunnan are strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, with a unique fruity flavor. The cultivation of small-grain coffee in Yunnan takes 3-4 years to begin to bear fruit.

Plants like this type of coffee are very demanding on the environment. They need high temperatures, but they are not used to sun exposure. For example, many coffee farms in coffee-producing countries have shade trees. For example, the shade trees of coffee beans in Honduras's Sweet Orange Manor on the front street are sweet orange trees, which are named after shade trees.

In addition to the extremely high requirements for climate, coffee trees also have requirements for the altitude of coffee planting. It just so happens that the elevation of Yunnan is also suitable for coffee cultivation. The elevation of Yunnan here is higher than that of other coffee growing areas, reaching about 2000 meters. In this environment, the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large, and the vigorous photosynthesis during the day produces sugar. when the temperature is low at night, the metabolic decomposition of sugar slows down. This allows a sufficient amount of sugar to be accumulated.

Coffee beans in this altitude environment will be very sweet, in addition to coffee beans, you will find that Yunnan fruit sugar content is also very high, so Qianjie Coffee suggests that you can also try Yunnan fruit when traveling to Yunnan. Qianjie Coffee has also tested the Yunnan coffee beans on the shelves. Qianjie Coffee has a relatively balanced taste for Yunnan's "distant mountain forest", with a tone dominated by nut and brown sugar flavor.

The following is the cup test and brewing process of Qianjie Coffee for these two types of coffee beans.

Qianjie Coffee will test this Yunnan small coffee bean before it goes on the shelves. Qianjie barista uses a 200ml standard cup test bowl, which contains 11.3g powder and a water temperature of 94 degrees Celsius. Yunnan small-grain coffee in Qianjie coffee smells nutty, but tastes more chocolate, nuts and cream, but more brown sugar sweetness, and the taste is more balanced as a whole.

Qianjie Coffee will brew the Yunnan small grains of coffee beans after the cup test to ensure its flavor. The V60 conical filter cup is recommended in the front street. V60 cup mouth is relatively large, coupled with its unique spiral curve ribs, so that the air can be discharged more easily to improve the extraction quality. The taste may not be thick enough, but its high concentration brings out the acidity and obvious aroma of Yunnan coffee is one of its major features.

Filter cup: V60

Water temperature: 90-92 ℃

Powder / water ratio: 1:15

Degree of grinding: medium and fine grinding, that is, the thickness of fine sugar (VARIO 50: 57% pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 screen)

Qianjie coffee is extracted by stages, steamed with 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, small water is injected around the circle to 125 grams for segments, when the water level is about to expose the powder bed, continue to inject water to 225 grams to stop water injection, wait for the water level to drop and remove the filter cup when the powder bed is about to be exposed, (the time of steaming starts) the extraction time is 2 grams 39m05 ".

Small coffee brewing flavor description: it smells nutty, with herbs, chocolate, caramel and a hint of acidity in the finish.

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