Introduction to the story of powdered bourbon micro-batch boutique coffee beans at St. Augustine Dome Manor in Huilan, Colombia

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Powder bourbon

Bourbon coffee is the result of a genetic mutation. There are red bourbon, yellow bourbon, and pink bourbon is a very rare new variety. This kind of beans is very romantic, and its coffee cherries are romantic pink when ripe.

Pink bourbon, from the cross between yellow bourbon and red bourbon, because the color of coffee fruit is ultimately determined by the recessive genes in pollen grains, 1800 coffee trees produce about 1.8kg fresh fruit in one season, and after processing, coffee beans with about 0.36kg can be obtained.

COLOMBIA HUILA SAN AGUSTIN LA PELOTA PINK BOURBON

Colombian Huilan St. Augustine Dome Manor Powder bourbon Micro-batch Fine Coffee

Sweet orange, sugarcane sweet, pleasant juice feeling

Origin: Huila, Colombia

Bean seed: Pink Bourbon

Processing plant: La Pelota Farm

Altitude: 1944 meters

Handling method: Washed

Picking and processing time: 2017

Baking degree: Light

The small town of SanAgustin in the Huila region has a national archaeological park listed as a World Heritage site and is the area where the earliest human sites have been found in Colombia. From some stone figures similar to Asian faces, it seems that traces of early human migration can be seen, and the historical arrangement is really amazing, as well as the unique pink bourbon coffee produced here.

Everyone is familiar with yellow bourbon and red bourbon, but they may be a little strange to pink bourbon. Last year, a Colombian coffee cup test at the Hotelex exhibition in Shanghai was lucky enough to drink a kind of pink bourbon that killed many Colombian roses in summer.

Pink bourbon (Pink Bounborn) is a natural hybrid of yellow bourbon and red bourbon, in which yellow bourbon and red bourbon coffee belong to the "dominant character" expressed by "dominant gene" and have strong reproductive stability, while the new hybrid variety pink bourbon belongs to the "recessive character" expressed by "recessive gene". The offspring produced by cross reproduction are easy to separate characters. Moreover, coffee trees rely on pollen for sexual reproduction, and other dominant tree species are very easy to pollinate bourbon, which seriously affects the flowering and fruiting of the next season. This is the main reason why yellow bourbon and red bourbon are more common and pink bourbon is less seen.

Speaking of which, some people may have to ask: so if you drink pink bourbon this year, there will be no next year? In fact, this is not the case. for one thing, the pace of producing pink bourbon from natural hybridization between yellow bourbon and red bourbon will not stop; second, almost all Arabica coffees are "self-pollinated", that is, the coffee flowers and pollen to be pollinated can come from the same plant, or even the same flower, which greatly improves the stability of the expression of recessive traits. Therefore, in order to avoid genetic contamination of other varieties, a relatively independent planting environment is very necessary when planting powder bourbon.

The spiced bourbon coffee variety was first discovered in Huila Palestine, Colombia, and is now mainly grown in the Huila region of Colombia. The arrival of the spicy bourbon is the raw bean buyer team of Chinese tea went to the Dome Manor in Huila San Agustin area to select. For this small manor, the cultivation and management of each coffee tree is taken good care of. Take this batch of powdered bourbon coffee as an example. There are about 1800 coffee trees in total. Each tree produces about 1.8kg fresh fruit in the first production season. After peeling and pulp treatment, about 0.36kg coffee beans are obtained. In a normal production season, the output of this batch of coffee is less than 650kg.

In the bright afternoon, make a cup of pink bourbon coffee, a pleasant sense of juice, relax your nerves; in the sun, all kinds of fruit aromas in the garden: little tomato, sweet orange, there may be a trace of sugar cane sweet, each sip of coffee, due to changes in temperature, aroma and taste changes, magically update your understanding of pink bourbon, calm down, do not doubt, you drink coffee, this is the beauty of pink bourbon.

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