Pink bourbon is not bourbon coffee? Colombian Huilan Water washing Powder bourbon Micro batch Coffee Bean Story

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A coffee colleague visited yesterday. He just got back from Colombia, turned on his computer and showed us a lot of pictures of last year's best-selling pink bourbon. Judging from the photo, it looks like a winter jujube that ripens slowly after a few days, unlike the hello kitty powder we imagined.

Looking at the slender pink bourbon beans, I casually asked a question, I remember the pink bourbon is round, this pink bourbon is very thin ah. He said, ha, you know, pink bourbon is not bourbon coffee!

Nani? Then why is it called Pink bourbon?

A manor in Colombia (not deliberately hidden, I really didn't catch this Japanese English sentence), many years ago, his land has been planted with Katura caturra, a leaf rust, the trees in the field are almost wiped out, leaving only a few trees still alive, these trees have a common feature, the color of coffee cherries is orange.

(leaf rust, which leads to the failure of coffee trees, is a nightmare for coffee farmers all over the world, which is why many coffee-producing countries promote varieties resistant to leaf rust.)

Natural leaf rust resistance gene! The third-generation landowner bred the surviving coffee cherries, and three years later (that is, about four or five years ago), wow! The cup test result of the coffee amazed everyone! Citrus acidity, apricot and peach flavors, and sugarcane and honey sweetness.

Hello! This neighbor, what kind of beans are you? Why don't you sell me some and plant it?!

Um... The third generation just heard that there is a kind of coffee in El Salvador called pink bourbon, which is very sweet, which is very similar to the color of his own coffee cherry, so he said, dude, this is a fan! Bo! By the side!

Wow, this bean is so sweet and citrus, it looks like bourbon!

As a result, farmers around Huilan began to grow pink bourbon one after another! Several domestic shipments of pink bourbon are also produced in Huilan in southern Colombia (El Salvador pink bourbon is real bourbon coffee, and coffee cherries are peach powder)

Two or three years ago, these Colombian powders were sent to the laboratory for genetic analysis to do research on wonderful flavor and leaf rust resistance. the flavor performance of the coffee we are familiar with is not satisfactory.

(in the past two years, we have seen the birth of many beautiful leaf rust resistant varieties, and more and more of these varieties are on the winning list of Central American coe, such as Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador and so on.)

The result of the appraisal caused an uproar.

This is a hybrid between colombia and caturra. However, people still like to call it pink bourbon coffee, which sounds more advanced and easier to sell.

Of course, Colombia's pink bourbon production is still lower than colombia, from the beginning of ripening to the end of picking, the ripening cycle is longer, so the cost of red fruit harvest is higher.

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We all know that Colombia and castillo are high-yielding varieties resistant to leaf rust developed in Colombia and widely planted throughout the country. The gene of colombia contains the gene of Katim catimor, although after more than five generations of iteration, there is still the gene of Robasta robusta.

Colombia and caturra, which contain the robusta gene, have evolved such a special kind of coffee. What else can't be believed in the loser's counterattack?

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