How is the quality of Yunnan Zhukula small coffee beans? how can Zhukula small coffee beans taste good?

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Two years ago, I accidentally went to Zhukula village and came back with no time to tidy up. Yesterday, I was tasting the coffee my colleagues had brought from northern Europe. I suddenly remembered these photos and looked back. I can still smell the pure native coffee in the mountain, and the coffee grounds at the bottom of that cup, so original, so pure.

Zhu Kula, located in the depths of the mountains in the northeast of Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, Yunnan Province, is the junction of Chuxiong, Dali and Lijiang, surrounded by the Yupao River, a tributary of the Jinsha River. Due to inconvenient transportation, Zhu Kula is almost isolated from the rest of the world, so it is a little-known Yi shanzhai.

I remember that the road is quite steep, and only local masters who are familiar with the road conditions can have safety and security.

The ancient coffee forest in Zhukula Village is a unique variety of Yunnan small-grain coffee in Yunnan, which is very rare and of excellent quality. It can be called the "living fossil" of Chinese coffee.

On July 29, 1896, French Catholic Father Tian Deneng planted the first coffee seedling under the back wall of the Catholic church in the village of Zhu Kula. Now there are 1134 old coffee trees and 24 old coffee trees.

Up to now, Zhukula Coffee has completely preserved the custom of primary processing and drinking of coffee beans, and it is one of the places of inheritance of Chinese coffee culture for a century. In Zhukula village, drinking coffee has become a local drinking custom, just as we drink tea.

The traditional folk processing of Zhukula coffee beans mainly includes sun drying, pestle and mortar peeling, iron pot stir-frying, stone milling and making coffee in soil cans, etc. Every family in Zhukula village has coffee. When the coffee is ripe, the villagers pick the coffee fruit, dry it and peel it off; roast the coffee beans with chicken oil or lard in a large iron pot for cooking; then grind them into coffee powder with ground stone, then wrap it in a piece of coarse white gauze and wrap it with a few tablespoons of coffee powder. Then fill the teapot with fresh water, boil it on a tripod in the fire pond, throw in the gauze ball wrapped in coffee powder, stir constantly with a small spoon, and after a while, take out the gauze ball, and the coffee is made.

A few years ago, the villagers of Zhukula village picked and processed fresh coffee beans at a purchase price of only 5 yuan per kilogram. This year, the purchase price has risen to 10 yuan per kilogram. The purchase price of coffee powder processed by the villagers is 120 yuan / kg.

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