Four things you need to know about geisha Coffee. The most important thing about quality geisha is that …

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The breed is said to have come from Mount Rosa in southwestern Ethiopia and was brought to Kenya by Richard Whally, a former Ethiopian consul, in 1936 at the request of the director of the Bureau of Agriculture. There, its seeds were sent to an experimental area in Tanzania; from there, the seeds were sent to Costa Rica in July 1953 to protect coffee trees from a fungus; it was not until the 1960s that they arrived in Panama.

Dried geisha beans

However, by 2004, the geisha variety had not been known. Why? Because this variety cannot grow in a way other than artificial cultivation. Daniel Peterson of Emerald Manor was the first to pick rose beans and presented them to the panel in the 2004 Best Panama competition.

The flowers of the geisha coffee tree

Needless to say, this variety has impressed everyone, and the boutique coffee industry has changed at the moment of its emergence, not only in Panama but all over the world. Now Emerald Manor has become the most famous estate in the world's boutique coffee industry, while Panama is famous for the excellent quality of its boutique coffee.

Despite its fame, Geisha is still a strange breed to most people. There are four things you need to know about geisha:

1. geisha is a fragile plant:

Compared with other coffee varieties, its foliar system is very thin, which means that the efficiency of photosynthesis is much lower than that of other coffee varieties. Most importantly, its root system is also fragile, which reduces water and energy intake, and a geisha coffee tree produces only half as many coffee beans as Kaduai.

two。 The most important thing about high-quality geisha is the planting altitude:

This variety needs to be planted at a higher altitude; in Panama, the best geishas are planted above 1700 meters above sea level, and some estates such as Alida estates plant geishas at 1700-1950 meters.

3. It takes a precise time to deal with geisha:

geisha needs to be harvested at the most appropriate time of maturity, and post-processing should be carried out immediately.

4. geisha also has various treatments such as sun exposure, water washing and honey treatment.

Sun exposure: direct exposure of coffee with skin and meat, the whole process takes about 9 days.

Honey treatment: the pulp of the coffee is partially removed, but the pectin layer is retained, thus giving the coffee a honey-like taste.

Washing: the most common post-processing method of coffee, in which the pulp and pectin of the coffee fruit are removed and then dried.

Is this breed of geisha refreshing for you? Although geisha is difficult to grow and valuable, it has good quality and rich flavor. In fact, there are many people think that Panama geisha is the best coffee, but the preference is still very subjective, you have to find the best coffee yourself!

Original author: the fourth generation successor of Manor Alida in Panama-W.Lamastus Jr.

Translated from Perfect Daily Grind

Translated by Cheng Zhen Coffee

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