What are the characteristics of Congolese coffee? does the Congolese Veronga Coffee Company recommend Congolese coffee?

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When it comes to Africa, people's first impressions are: desert, drought, tribe, poverty, mystery and so on. Because of its climatic environment, it has become a paradise for the growth of coffee trees.

The world's first coffee tree was found in the Horn of Africa. Local indigenous tribes often grind the fruit of coffee and knead it with animal fat to make many ball-shaped balls. These indigenous tribes use these coffee balls as precious food for soldiers who are about to go out to battle. At that time, people did not understand what it was all about when coffee eaters showed hyperactivity-they did not know that it was caused by the irritation of coffee. Instead, people regarded it as a religious fanaticism shown by coffee eaters. I think this drink is so mysterious that it has become a special product for priests and doctors.

Coffee is the main cash crop in Angola, the primary export of Burundi and the largest foreign exchange earning industry in Kenya in the past. Ethiopia is known as the "hometown of coffee"; C ô te d'Ivoire occupies an important position in the world in coffee production; Uganda is famous for its production per unit area in Africa.

On the other hand, Congolese coffee retains the rich flavor of wild African beans, with good acidity, smooth mouth and solid thickness.

The second Congolese War, which began in 1998, killed more than 5.4 million people, known as the "World War in Africa". The Congo was devastated, the cultivation of Congolese coffee was also hit hard, and the people had no livelihood.

The cooperative established in 2002 linked small coffee farmers with the international boutique coffee market, which gave coffee farmers hope and immediately brought positive local development, building residential houses and basic public facilities. by 2014, it had grown from 263 members to 5300, with an acreage of 10000 mu, more than 20 per cent of whom were women, many of whom were widows.

Various nutrients from raw coffee beans are thermally degraded into various odor molecular structures under baking, producing flavors similar to those of various aromas. Good coffee beans are naturally rich in aroma, and in high temperature, medium temperature, low temperature, there will be a variety of natural aroma changes, very pleasant, worthy of careful taste.

North Kivu province of Congo (Congo) (Nord-Kivu) provides good conditions for coffee production, with rich Rain Water, high altitude and fertile volcanic soil. The Mutendero processing plant belongs to the Virunga Coffee Company Coffee Company, which operates deeply in North Kivu; within three years, three agronomists were brought in to help local farmers improve their planting, help 2300 coffee farmers obtain organic certification, and cultivate more than 400000 coffee seedlings for distribution to farmers to increase production and improve the quality of the area.

Under the operation of attaching importance to quality, the processing plant owned by Veronga Coffee Company won the Congo champion of the 2014 AFCA Coffee Raw Bean Competition, won the runner-up in 2017, and won 3 seats in the top 5, with excellent quality!

Bourbon, a variety of Arabica coffee, is one of the varieties closest to the original species, which was found in Reunion (formerly Bourbon) near Madagascar. Bourbon species has its own characteristics, and Typica (Tibica) has the same high-quality taste, like red wine sour taste, sweet finish. Tibica and bourbon can be distinguished by the leaves and bean appearance of coffee trees. Bourbon leaves are wider, strong coffee cherries are smaller and denser, so bean appearance is compared to Tibica.

[washing method] Washed / Wet Processed

After removing the peel and pulp, soak in water in the fermentation tank to ferment, remove the residual pectin mucosa on the inner pericarp, then rinse with water and dry with sunlight or machine, with the rich acidity of one of the fine coffee conditions. It is small and round.

Qianjie Coffee is recommended to brew Congolese coffee with 86-88 degrees of water, which is mellow and a little wild.

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