Famous Yunnan small coffee brand ranking recommended authentic Yunnan small coffee beans which origin brand good to drink

In recent years, with the efforts of many people, the quality of Yunnan coffee has been continuously improved and won a lot of affirmative voices, and there are many fans and friends of Yunnan coffee in China. For those who have never drunk Yunnan coffee, they must be curious about what it tastes like. Qianjie feels that it is advisable to start with this ultra-cost-effective Yunnan small grain grain beans, which comes from Baoshan producing area and adopts the way of washing treatment. It shows the pure aroma characteristics of Yunnan small coffee beans, and the 100 grams of small packaging is to avoid endless waste.

Why choose small grains of coffee in Baoshan producing area?

At present, the planting area of coffee in Yunnan Province is stable at about 1.8 million mu, with an output of about 139000 tons, accounting for about 1.5% of the global output. Premium commercial coffee beans (more than 75 points) account for 10%, and boutique coffee accounts for 5% (according to 2019 data). Yunnan has also developed into China's largest coffee grower, trade distribution center and export point. Coffee is grown in 35 counties in 9 prefectures and cities, including Pu'er, Baoshan, Dehong, Lincang, Wenshan and Xishuangbanna, with more than 380000 coffee growers and a coffee grower population of more than 1.14 million. Among them, Baoshan is one of the earliest producing areas to grow coffee.

Since the 1950s, Baoshan has introduced the first batch of coffee tree species to grow seedlings. Up to now, Baoshan Lujiangba has become the largest coffee planting base in China and Xinzhai Village, which is known as "the first Coffee Village in China". The back hills of every household here are covered with coffee trees, the courtyard is covered with coffee beans, and the house smells of coffee. In the frost-free warm climate throughout the year, coffee trees flourish in a moist and comfortable environment, and the significant diurnal temperature difference at high altitude slows down the ripening period of the coffee fruit and transforms more flavor substances into the fruit.

Yunnan coffee trees are generally planted in the mountains, slopes, scattered, the terrain is not suitable for mechanical harvesting, so they use manual methods to harvest mature coffee cherries. Like the harvest in most coffee-producing countries, Yunnan harvests one season every year in winter, with coffee cherries ripening and turning red in the mountains from November to March each year. We can see busy farmers picking small grains of coffee in the mountains.

What kind of coffee is it?

Yunnan small seed coffee is also known as Arabica seed coffee (coffea arabica L.). In the 1950s, the leading varieties in Baoshan City of Yunnan were typica, bourbon and S288. The oldest of them is Typica, which tastes pure and elegant, but its yield is low and its disease resistance is weak, so it is easy to blight. So Yunnan introduced the Katim variety (Catimor), which can be planted densely and has strong disease resistance, and has become the most common coffee variety in Yunnan. So we often say "Yunnan small grain", actually more refers to the Katim coffee beans in Yunnan.

Katim is a hybrid of Kaddura and Timor. Kaddura is a natural mutant of the acclaimed bourbon species and is often a "regular" in a variety of boutique coffee competitions, such as Kaddura in dozens of home-baked coffee beans on Front Street. Tim, a natural mating species of Robusta and Arabica, was discovered on the island of Timor in Southeast Asia in the early 1900s. Robusta's taste is notoriously unlikable, the taste is mainly bitter and strong, but it has high disease resistance, cold and heat resistance and high yield. So Katim also inherited some of the above characteristics, higher survival rate, fruit hanging rate, short maturity, naturally more favored by farmers and producers.

Is it better to wash in the water or in the sun?

With the technological development of Yunnan producing areas, there are a variety of Yunnan coffee beans with different post-processing methods on the market, and there are many choices. The reason why we choose Yunnan small grains washed in water, Qianjie thinks that the cleanliness of washed coffee beans is better, and it can express the basic flavor and tonality of the producing area, which is also a kind of natural treatment that Qianjie especially likes.

Most coffee farmers in Yunnan are in difficult conditions and do not have high-priced processing equipment, so the vast majority of Yunnan coffee beans are treated naturally, that is, washing and solarization. Yunnan is rich in fresh water resources, and it is easy to encounter rainy days in the harvest season, so it is more suitable for production by washing, which is the most common way of processing raw beans in Yunnan at present.

Qianjie also has a coffee bean "Qianjie 2013" that uses natural drying and sun treatment, which is produced from Qianjie's own manor in Lincang, Yunnan Province. It is selected from an elegant tin card variety and uses natural sun treatment to make the coffee sweeter. Whenever November comes, the coffee fruits planted in Qianjie are also ripe one after another. Qianjie will arrange for workers to pick red coffee cherries one by one and spread the fresh coffee fruits in the sun to dry them naturally and turn them irregularly to let them dehydrate evenly. Avoid the negative taste of excessive fermentation.

When talking about the flavor characteristics of Yunnan coffee in the current street, some people describe it as chocolate, some people say it is like sweet potatoes, and some friends think it is like Sanhua Li. Qianjie believes that the flavor of Yunnan small grains belongs to the neutral and balanced tonality, that is, there are both sweet and sour. Therefore, Yunnan coffee in Qianjie is moderately roasted, highlighting the roasted aromas of chocolate and nuts while retaining part of the acid. Qianjie drink Yunnan small grain grain beans from the cup test, showing the aroma of nuts, herbs, brown sugar, sweet melons and fruits, and the sour quality of plums, with a balanced taste. The tanned tin card shows chocolate, baked bread, tropical fruit fermentation and black tea aftertaste.

Suggestion on hand washing of Yunnan small grains washed by water

The front street for brewing different coffee beans will use the corresponding parameters, the more roasted coffee beans, such as Mantenin coffee, Brazilian coffee, the front street will use a temperature of 87-88 degrees Celsius and medium grinding degree, while the lighter-roasted coffee beans, such as Esseyejia and Panamanian rose summer coffee, the front street will use a high temperature of 91-93 degrees Celsius and medium grinding degree to stimulate the aroma of high-altitude hard beans. Back to Yunnan small grains of coffee in Qianjie today, Qianjie uses medium water temperature and grinding to highlight the neutralization balance of Yunnan coffee.

Cooking parameters:

Filter cup: hario v60

Powder content: 15g

Water temperature: 90 degrees Celsius

Degree of grinding: pass rate of No. 20 screen 75%

Gouache ratio: 1:15

Three-stage water injection: wet the powder bed with twice as much water as coffee powder to form a drum and steam for 30s, then fill the small water from the inside to the outer circle to 125g, wait for the powder bed to drop to half of the filter cup, and continue to inject the same fine water into the third section to 225g, until all the coffee liquid has been filtered and remove the filter cup for about 2 minutes.

Qianjie Yunnan small grain grain bean coffee flavor: smell very nutty, entrance has herbs, chocolate, caramel, finish with a touch of fruit acid, the overall taste is balanced, with a good cleanliness.

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