How about pink bourbon? what are the characteristics of pink bourbon coffee?

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Bourbon coffee was originally grown on the island of Reunion, which was also known as le Bourbon before 1789. Bourbon, along with Typica, is the oldest coffee variety in existence. The green fruit appears bright red when ripe.

The three Codiera Mountains in Colombia run north and south to the Andes, and local coffee farmers grow coffee along the highlands of these mountains, with production conditions of diverse climates; also because of changes in topography and altitude

A large part of Colombia's coffee industry is produced by small farmers. However, unlike coffee-producing countries in Central America, which are mostly classified according to the altitude of their growth, Colombian coffee is distinguished by the size of the bean-shaped mesh, of which the Supremo grade above 17 mesh is the largest, and the next grade is the 16-mesh EXCELSO EXTRA.

Vera province, located in the southern part of the Central Mountains in southern Colombia, is the country's most famous boutique coffee shop area. This area is a hilly land surrounded by mountains, planted at an altitude of more than 1500 meters, where the most important rivers in Colombia meet, bringing abundant water resources and moisture.

Contrary to the general impression that large quantities of Colombian coffee are balanced and smooth, the fine Goran products produced by many small farmers in micro-batches are actually very characteristic of the flavor of the producing areas. In recent years, with the attention to the quality of coffee and the demand for fine coffee in the international market, the original bean size grading system has been gradually abandoned to micro-batch (Micro-regional selections) provided by small farmers in micro-production areas, and dozens of small farmers have provided their unit harvest into a micro-batch to sell, and because of this, they have more opportunities to measure each batch by cup. Directly pick out a lot of high-quality specific smallholder coffee.

Colombia established the National Coffee Management Association in 1927 to regulate the quality of coffee and to improve the certification of coffee quality and its producing areas, the Colombian coffee trademark, which is composed of Juan Valdez, mule and Columbia Mountain, meets the certification standards, that is, it can be sold as a sign of quality and producing areas.

Bourbon Coffee-Pink Bourbon

Pink bourbon, as its name implies, its coffee cherries are romantic pink when ripe. It is a very rare new variety, which is bred by the cross between red bourbon and yellow bourbon. The reason why pink bourbon is rare is that it is difficult to maintain this beautiful pink, sometimes some orange bourbon will be harvested, that is because the color of coffee fruit is ultimately determined by the recessive genes in the pollen grains. Among the pollen grains we have selected for hybridization, there are both yellow genes inclined to yellow bourbon and red genes inclined to red bourbon, and these are all recessive genes, which are very easy to interfere with each other.

At present, pink bourbon can be seen in Colombia and Guatemala. Take this batch of pink bourbon coffee as an example, there are about 1800 coffee trees. Each tree produces about 1.8kg fresh fruit in the first production season. After peeling and pulp treatment, about 0.36kg coffee beans are obtained. In a normal production season, the output of this batch of coffee is less than 650kg.

Taste characteristics: sweet orange, sweet sugarcane, pleasant juice, small tomato