What are the characteristics of the pointed bourbon of the variants of bourbon

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Bourbon: a variant of the early (prehistoric coffee) Tibika that changed its shape from thin to round after it was transplanted to Yemen. It was named bourbon in 1715 after France transplanted round beans from Yemeni mocha to the island of Bourbon on the east coast of Africa (renamed Reunion after the French Revolution). Bourbon beans spread to Brazil and Central and South America in 1727, and the British transplanted Yemeni mochas to St. Helena Island (where Napoleon was later imprisoned) in 1732. Bourbon is the winner of the American boutique coffee cup test.

Gene mutant

Pointed Bourbon (Bourbon Pointu): found in Bourbon Island in 1810, beans changed from round to pointed, with only half the caffeine content, but in small amounts, weak and extremely precious (mostly cultivated in the laboratory).

Pointed bourbon is a natural low-caffeinated variety, which is academically called "Coffea Laurina", but it is commonly known as "Bourbon Pointu". It is mainly named because the bean shape of the pointed bourbon is longer and narrower and slightly pointed at both ends.

Unlike other artificially treated decaf coffee, pointed bourbon is due to genetic degradation, resulting in lower caffeine content and better flavor than ordinary bourbon coffee trees, but extremely low yield. this also makes pointed bourbon more rare and expensive.

Pointed bourbon coffee beans

The pointed body bourbon was once extinct.

To mention the story of pointy bourbon extinction, we have to start from 1715 when the French transplanted the round mocha of Yemen to Bourbon Island (later called Reunion Island) on the Indian Ocean on the east coast of Africa, and the soil, water and climate were different from those of Yemen. so the variant bourbon is derived, the caffeine content becomes lower, and you can get a good night's sleep if you drink too much. Therefore, it is loved by French King Louis XV and famous French writers and scholars.

However, due to some natural disasters and diseases, the yield of the pointed bourbon of the variety became extremely low, and all the islanders who originally grew coffee turned to crops such as sugar cane, and gradually, sharp bourbon became the legendary coffee beans at that time. The coffee industry also recognized sharp bourbon as "extinct coffee beans."

Sharp body bourbon-- reappear in the world

Decades after the pointy bourbon disappeared, Yoshihiro Kawashima, a coffee expert at UCC Coffee in Japan, repeatedly heard coffee farmers in El Salvador mention that "decaf trees may still be alive on the French bourbon island", prompting him to look for the pointy bourbon.

So in 1999, he had the opportunity to visit Africa and stop by the island of Bourbon to find the legendary decaf tree. However, things did not go as smoothly as expected. None of the young people on the island had heard of coffee crops in Bourbon, so they had to leave their contact address to local farmers and officials before leaving.

Finally, two years later, in 2001, Kawashima received a call from farmers on Bourbon Island, saying that more than 30 unknown coffee trees had been found in the wild. Later, experts identified it as the Bourbon pointed coffee tree at that time, so French scientists cooperated with Japan's Shangdao Coffee to launch a natural low-caffeine coffee tree restoration program. Finally, in 2006, there were a small number of bourbon pointed coffee beans. After screening, they were sold in 2007, but only for the Japanese market. The price is as high as NT $20.8 per gram, which is four times more expensive than the top Blue Mountain.

The excellent flavor of pointed bourbon

What is the flavor of such a high-priced pointed bourbon? According to Coffee Studies, people who drink coffee think that it is different from the general coffee flavor, there is no bitter taste, with a strong citrus aroma and elegant acidity, and even some litchi fragrance.

And Stephen store manager also recently drank the pointed bourbon from Guatemala (CoffeeMart sale), although planted in Guatemala, but the variety is also native to the island of Reunion sharp bourbon, the flavor is obvious on the peach aroma, after the entrance is like flower and fruit tea fragrance, smooth taste, the final rhyme is sweet, such as tea-like rhyme lingering in the mouth for a long time, it is really only a very good quality coffee beans!

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