Flavor and taste characteristics of Panamanian rose summer coffee beans the difference between green-top rose summer and red-top rose summer

In the last century, nothing attracted more attention than Blue Mountain Coffee and Kona Coffee. At that time, people preferred mellow coffee. At that time, Rose Summer Coffee had not been paid much attention to by many people, and it was still keeping a low profile in Panama.

Until 2003, when Emerald Manor sent Rose Summer Coffee to participate in the Panama Best Competition (BOP,Best of Panama), Rose Summer Coffee varieties began to shine on the world stage. In the 2004 BOP contest, Emerald Manor won the championship with Rose Summer Coffee and broke the auction price of raw beans of that year. Since the flavor of Panamanian rose summer coffee is indeed more attractive than that of other coffee varieties, the BOP competition has to divide the coffee raw bean competition into two groups, the rose summer group and the non-rose summer group, for fear that the rose summer will steal the limelight of other varieties.

The rose variety was first discovered and picked in the rose forests of Ethiopia in the 1930s and later transferred to several coffee laboratories in Africa, where the flavor generally did not make its mark. CATIE was introduced to Costa Rica in the 1950s and named T2722. It was distributed to Panama in the 1960s, but because of its low yield and fragile plants, the farmers did not pay much attention to the variety and were treated as a windbreak tree. After more than 40 years, the Peterson family of Jade Manor discovered and carried forward the potential of Rose Summer, which has been a popular spicy chicken ever since.

Rosa coffee is particularly picky about the growing environment, requiring high altitude, cloud shade, fertile soil and enough accumulated temperature. It is precisely because of this unique environment and climate that coffee king can be cultivated.

It is worth noting that some in-depth understanding of rose summer coffee varieties can find two theories about rose summer varieties, one is copper-top rose summer, the other is green-top rose summer.

Most of the rose coffee varieties grown in South and Central America may indeed be able to trace their genealogy to the aforementioned variety T2722. The planting situation varies from one coffee farm to another, and there may be cross-pollination or trading of rose seeds from other coffee plantations.

In the book "Coffee in the Cup: the pursuit of ideal Coffee" (God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee), Price Peterson from the Peterson family even agrees with the possibility that the rose variety in the jadeite estate may be different from the T2722 variety, he explains: "early botanical description indicates that the cultivated variety of Gesha has new bronzed leaves, inferior cup test performance and considerable fungal resistance. Panamanian rose summer, on the other hand, has green leaf buds, has a good cup taste and is resistant to leaf rust, but it is not the coffee leaf spot (Ojo de Gallo) that farmers in Central and South America fear most. "

Qianjie Coffee the Panamanian rosy summer coffee beans on the current bean list come from two estates, one is the well-known Emerald Manor, and the other is the upstart Deborah Manor in recent years.

Jadeite Manor

Even the discoverer of Rose Summer Coffee, the Emerald Manor is also the promoter of Rose Summer flavor. Since its fame in 2004, Feicui Manor has been of the same quality in Rosa coffee. The Rose Summer Coffee of Emerald Manor is now divided into two grades, red and green. These two grades of Rosa Coffee beans are picked from the red fruits of Rosa Coffee above 1600 meters above sea level. The only difference is that the red sign of the emerald manor can be traced back to specific plots, while the green mark is a micro-batch of mixed beans from different plots, which can not be traced back to specific plots.

The green label Rose summer flavor of the jadeite manor is sometimes very similar to that of the red mark, and sometimes it is different, so you can feel the pleasure of buying lottery tickets. The green roses in front of the street also have very strong and fresh aromas of jasmine and ginger, bright acidity of citrus and full and thick juices. Qianjie believes that Green label Rose Summer is the most cost-effective Rose Summer Coffee in Jade Manor.

Qianjie Coffee Jade Manor Green label Rosa Coffee beans

Producing area: Buquet producing area of Panama

Manor: Jade Manor

Altitude: 1600 m-1800 m

Variety: rose summer seed

Treatment method: washing treatment method

Deborah Manor

The estate began planning and construction in 2007, planting rosy summer coffee trees at an area of 1900 meters in 2010, a small harvest in 2015 and a formal commercial harvest in 2016.

Located in the Walken Coffee producing area of Panama, Deborah Manor is located at an altitude of more than 1900 meters, close to Mount Baru, with dense primeval forests, great temperature difference between day and night, rain and fog, abundant rainfall and rich diversity of animal and plant species. it is one of the highest and most remote coffee plantations in Panama.

The variety of Rosa coffee can not only survive in such a severe environment, but even glow and exuberant, with rich flavor and superior quality.

The Savage series of Rose Summer, which started on the front street, is made by the owner of Deborah Manor through the Savage Coffee Project to buy rosy summer coffee cherries of the same quality and high altitude (2000 meters to 2350 meters) from farmers near the manor. Then it is processed by the raw bean post-processing technology of Deborah Manor.

Qianjie Coffee Deborah Manor Savage Series Rose Summer

Origin: Walken producing area of Panama

Manor: Deborah Manor

Landowner: Jamison Savage

Altitude: 2000m--2350m

Variety: rose summer seed

Grade: SHB

Treatment method: oxygen-free sun treatment

Rosa coffee grown at high altitude is already sour, sweet and delicious with rich flavor. This Savage series of rose summer specially uses the way of anaerobic fermentation in the sun, placing the coffee fruit in a greenhouse to dry dried raisins, putting it in a sealed container to extract oxygen for dry fermentation for 36 hours. finally, the peel is removed and 100% of the pulp is fermented. After such a tedious and exquisite handling, this Savage series of rose summer coffee in Qianjie is extremely sweet, with outstanding aromas of fresh fruit and flowers.

Because Panamanian Rosa Coffee has high-quality floral and fruit aromas and acidity, Qianjie roasters use light roasting. When cooking, Qianjie recommends using a filter cup with higher water temperature, medium and fine grinding degree and faster flow rate. In addition, in terms of the ratio of powder to water, 1:16 is recommended in Qianjie, which helps to better experience the hierarchy and flavor of rosy summer.

Filter cup: Hario V60

Water temperature: 92 degrees Celsius

Amount of powder: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:15

Degree of grinding: the pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 screen is 80%.

In the front street, three-stage water injection is used for brewing: 30 grams of water is injected into the coffee powder and steamed for 30 seconds, the small water is slowly injected around the circle into the second section of water to 130 grams, when the water level in the filter cup is about to reveal the powder bed, continue to inject water to 240 grams, and the filter cup can be removed when the water in the filter cup drips completely to the bottom of the sharing pot, and the total extraction time is about 2 minutes.

[washing green standard] Jasmine is rich and sweet, with citrus, berry, juice, cream, green tea, orange peel and cantaloupe as a whole, with rich flavor and long-lasting citrus.

[savage Rose Summer] obvious white flower aroma, pineapple, lactic acid drink-like sweet and sour taste, full taste, overall clean and balanced.

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