What are the flavor and taste characteristics of Yunnan small coffee beans? Introduction to the ranking and price grade of Yunnan boutique coffee brands

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Yunnan small-grain coffee has attracted more and more attention in recent years, and has achieved good results both in international competitions and in the evaluation of coffee flavor. Yunnan coffee has also attracted more and more attention. Chinese coffee is also developing rapidly with the help of Yunnan coffee.

What is a small grain of coffee?

Yunnan small grain coffee is more popular in our country. Small grain coffee actually refers to Arabica coffee. In the past, before coffee varieties were subdivided, Arabica varieties were called small fruit coffee / large fruit coffee because their fruits were smaller than Robsta (medium fruit variety) and Liberica (large fruit variety).

Coffee growing areas in Yunnan

As long as the Arabica varieties grown in Yunnan can be called Yunnan small-grain coffee. The good coffee growing areas in Yunnan are mainly distributed in Lincang, Baoshan, Simao, Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Nujiang and other areas between 1000 and 1500m. The more coffee trees are planted at higher altitudes, the significant temperature differences between day and night at high elevations make coffee trees grow slowly, preserve more nutrients in the body, form more sugar aroma, and the better the flavor of coffee beans.

Yunnan's superior geographical conditions have led to the rapid development of the coffee industry, accounting for more than 99% of the country's planting area and output in 2014. The average temperature of Lujiang dam in Baoshan is 21.5 ℃, the highest is 40.4 ℃, and there is almost no frost all the year round.

Yunnan small grain coffee varieties

At present, Katim coffee beans are the main varieties grown in Yunnan, and iron pickup, bourbon and Rosa are planted in a small number of areas.

In the seventies and eighties of last century, coffee leaf rust broke out in many countries in Central and South America, which seriously affected coffee production. CIFC, a coffee research center in Portugal, crossed Tim Timor with Robusta gene and Kaddura Caturra in 1959 to develop a disease-resistant and high-yielding Katim Catimor in response to coffee leaf rust. In order to solve the disaster caused by leaf rust and encouraged by coffee organizations, widespread cultivation was introduced in Central and South America in the 1980s.

Yunnan was chosen by Nestl é in 1988, and Katim varieties of coffee trees that are better resistant to leaf rust were distributed. People replanted coffee trees and have been supplying them to Nestl é.

Because Katim has the gene of Robusta variety, its flavor is not as good as people want, and it is not good to drink directly, so everyone's influence on Yunnan coffee stays on instant coffee.

However, Qianjie Coffee believes that a really good cup of Yunnan coffee can show the unique flavor of Yunnan coffee under the traditional sun / water washing treatment. If you want to get rid of the bad taste of Yunnan coffee, you have to change it from the root variety.

So in 2013, Qianjie coffee began to grow iron pickup varieties and a small number of bourbon varieties in Yunlincang, for research and experimental planting, and sold in Qianjie coffee line and offline stores after harvest.

The reason for choosing the tin card variety is that, as one of the oldest coffee varieties, the gene of the pure Arabica variety, which owns the pure Arabica variety, has always been recognized as a boutique coffee variety because of its elegant and clean flavor; one is because the earliest coffee trees planted in Yunnan are also iron pickup varieties, brought in by French missionaries.

Although Qianjie coffee is a variety of iron pickup, it is not that Katim in Yunnan is bad. With the promotion of boutique coffee culture, Katim coffee in Yunnan has been more scientifically cultivated and planted coffee flavor and quality has also been greatly improved.

Recommendation of Yunnan small Coffee beans

Qianjie Coffee currently sells three kinds of Yunnan coffee beans, one is "Qianjie 2013 tanned Iron pickup Coffee beans", one is "selected rations beans in producing areas-Yunnan Baoshan Water washed Katim Coffee beans", and the other is "all Red Fruit Sun-Katim Coffee beans in Baoshan Lujiangba producing area".

All three coffee beans have the unique coffee flavor of Yunnan: nutty, caramel and plum flavor. However, the flavor of the three types of coffee beans will be cleaner, sweet and sour and bitter balanced, and the flavor of "full red fruit sun" will be sour and sweet with the characteristics of Yunnan producing area. "Baoshanshui Katim" is a selection of Qianjie coffee producing area coffee beans, so that everyone can drink Yunnan coffee beans with the highest performance-to-price ratio to show the flavor charm of producing areas under the traditional treatment method.

How do Yunnan small coffee beans taste good?

Qianjie Coffee recommends that when brewing these three Yunnan coffees, they tend to be balanced, with neither too much acidity nor too much modification at the end.

Therefore, the amount of coffee powder is recommended to choose 15 grams, the ratio of powder to water is recommended at 1:15, in the hope that the flavor can be clearer at 1:16, the filter cup chooses V60 filter cup, and the boiling water temperature is 88 degrees Celsius, in order to make the acid softer. Fine grinding / fine sugar size (75% pass rate of sieve 20).

Specific cooking methods: the first injection of 30g water, 30 seconds of steaming; the second small amount of water was injected around 125g, waiting for the powder bed water to half, and then injected into 225g, after all the drip filtration, the total extraction time was about 2 minutes and 10 seconds.