Which is better, washed AA Katim coffee beans or Yunnan Baoshan small coffee beans?

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Yunnan small-grain coffee is compared to Vietnam's medium-grain coffee, which is caused by different planting varieties. Yunnan's varieties are Arabica species, and the particles are smaller than those of Robusta coffee grown in Vietnam, so it is called small grains.

The size of the particles depends on the variety of coffee beans, latitude, humidity, altitude, and so on. Due to different factors, the taste of coffee is different, some are bitter and light, some are heavy and bitter, some are mellow, some are sour, and so on, because countries around the world have different coffee drinking habits and coffee cultures. so you will choose different varieties of coffee.

Yunnan coffee belongs to the type of strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, and good sour taste, which is very suitable for Chinese taste.

How is the quality of Yunnan small grain coffee?

Due to the unique geographical environment and climatic conditions, Yunnan coffee has formed a unique flavor of strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, with a little fruit flavor. World-class coffee experts evaluate it as the best coffee in the world, and its cultivation techniques. The yield per unit area is also world-class.

Coffee is rich in protein, fat, sucrose, starch, caffeine and other substances. after being made into a beverage, coffee is rich in aroma, delicious taste and rich nutrition, so it has become the world's three major beverages composed of tea and cocoa, and ranks first in the list. Yunnan coffee is a variant of Arabian original species, which has been cultivated for more than one hundred years after long-term cultivation and domestication.

What is the main producing area of Yunnan small grain coffee?

Yunnan small-grain coffee is suitable for growing in the mountain area of 800m above sea level. If the altitude is too high, it will taste sour, and if it is too low, it will taste bitter. Small grains of coffee are mostly planted in dry and hot valleys about 1100 meters above sea level, so they are moderately sour, rich and mellow. There is a unique environment suitable for the growth of small seed coffee in many areas of Yunnan, and the quality of small seed coffee is excellent.

The planting areas are mainly distributed in Lincang, Baoshan, Simao, Xishuangbanna, Dehong and other states.

The average temperature of Lujiangba in Baoshan is 21.5℃, and the highest is 40.4 ℃, which is basically frost-free all the year round. It is recognized as the best producing area of small-grain coffee. The small-grain coffee cultivated here is famous at home and abroad for its strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, well-proportioned small noodles, mellow and fruity.

Variety

Typica: the oldest native variety in Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan. All Arabikas are derived from Tibika. The flavor is elegant, but the physique is weak, the disease resistance is poor, the fruit yield is less. Excellent manor beans such as the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Manning of Sumatra and Kona of Hawaii all belong to Tibika. Tiebika top leaf is red copper, called red top coffee, Tibika belongs to Arabica.

Catimor: in 1959, the Portuguese mixed Brazilian Kaddura and Timo to develop a disease-resistant Katim / Katimo, which is now an important variety of commercial beans.

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