Britain cultivates scarce Coffee | History of Organic Coffee on St. Helena in the South Atlantic?

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Coffee cultivated in the UK | History of Organic Coffee in St. Helena, South Atlantic?

Most fancy coffee fans can only dream of sipping coffee made from Saint Helena coffee beans in the South Atlantic, because they are rare and not cheap. Green tip bourbon Arabica (green-tipped Bourbon Arabica) on St. Helena is an 18th century coffee tree from Yemen, producing some of the most expensive and fascinating coffee beans in the world.

The most famous fan of St. Helena coffee is the French emperor Napoleon. Napoleon died on St. Helena in 1821. He lived in a rat-infested house during his six-year exile on St. Helena. He is rumored to have said that coffee is "the only good thing" on St. Helena. St. Helena retains the remains of coffee trees planted by the British East India Company (East IndiaCompany) nearly 300 years ago. The coffee garden on St. Helena was once abandoned, and enthusiasts began to replant it in the 1990s, but it was a flash in the pan and the main producer went bankrupt, not even sending the beans to London's Harrods department store for sale. Solomon & Company, a listed company, later took over in 2009, injecting new life into Bamboo Hedge.

However, these organic beans are still in short supply. The company produces 1 to 1.5 metric tons of coffee beans a year, a drop in the bucket compared to global production of about 8.5 million metric tons in 2014. All the company's coffee beans will be exported directly to the UK before baking. This precious coffee bean is loved by many independent coffee roasters and dealers in the European Union, Russia, Japan, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan.

On May 21, 1502, while returning northward from the Cape of good Hope and crossing the South Atlantic, the battleship of Portuguese Captain Nova discovered an unnamed island. Nova named the island St. Helena. When St. Helena was discovered, Europeans didn't know what coffee was, and there were no coffee trees in Asia and Latin America, but cava, a new drink brewed with coffee fruit, was becoming popular in Yemen, and the Arab world was caught in a cava craze. Europeans still like beer and wine as usual.

In 1732, in order to catch up with the coffee transplant craze, the British East India Company obtained bourbon coffee trees from Yemenmoka and randomly planted them on the British island of St. Helena. In 1815, when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo and put under house arrest in St. Helena, this kind of coffee had a chance to be known.

Unexpectedly, St. Helena coffee was inadvertently cultivated in England. After Napoleon died of illness in 1821, the delicacy of St. Helena coffee was spread, and it is still one of the most expensive manor coffee in the world. St. Helena produces only 2-12 tons of raw beans a year, which is more rare than 7-1000 tons in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

Qianjie recommended cooking:

Filter cup: Hario V60

Water temperature: 90 degrees

Degree of grinding: small Fuji 3.5

Cooking methods: the ratio of water to powder is 1:15, 15g powder, the first injection of 25g water, 25 s steaming, the second injection to 120g water cut off, waiting for the powder bed water to half and then water injection, slow water injection until 225g water, extraction time about 2:00

Analysis: using three-stage brewing to clarify the flavor of the front, middle and back of the coffee. Because V60 has many ribs and the drainage speed is fast, it can prolong the extraction time when the water is cut off.