Elephant Bean Coffee Libica Coffee| How about Malaysian Elephant Coffee Beans?

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Since entering the coffee pit, I have been interested in all kinds of knowledge involved in coffee, in addition to the treatment will often pay attention to, there is the treatment of coffee!

In the case of raw coffee beans alone, coffee producers usually confirm grading based on defect rate, bean shape size (measured by the number of eyes), altitude, raw bean density, processing standards and even cup test scores.

Liberica Coffee Leberica

Most coffee transactions are based on Arabica and Robusta, while Liberika currently accounts for only 1% of the world's economically grown coffee production, which can be said to be very small.

Liberica was first found in Liberika, West Africa. The coffee trees in Liberika will be higher than those in Arabica and Robusta, and the coffee species in Liberika have strong disease resistance and adaptability to the environment; from the appearance of coffee trees, the leaves of Liberika are larger than those of ordinary coffee trees. From the appearance of the coffee fruit, it will actually be much larger than the ordinary coffee beans, and the skin is thick, so it is not easy to remove the coffee skin and pulp, which will be more troublesome in the post-processing process of coffee.

In fact, some farms will grow a small amount of Liberian coffee and plant it around Arabica coffee to lure coffee pulp bugs or other pests away from Arabica coffee.

The Liberica coffee tree has been planted in the semi-wild environment of Borneo in Malaysia for many years. It is pointed out in the ancient literature that leaf rust in Sri Lanka caused serious loss of local coffee in 1892. At this time, the British colonists looked for fertile land to grow coffee and found Bora. But the coffee there was eventually abandoned and switched to more profitable crops such as tea, pepper and rubber, leaving only a small number of Laiberia trees.

In 2018, the boutique Liberica from Borneo made its debut at the Stuttgart Coffee Summit in Germany and won the coffee raw bean quality award.

Malaysian "Elephant Coffee Bean" is a "Liberica" variety that originated in Africa more than a hundred years ago. After the introduction of the peninsula that year, because of the tropical climate and abundant rainfall, coupled with high-quality soil conditions, Liberica provided a suitable new world for growth, and the coffee beans grown were one to two times larger than other varieties such as Robusta and Arabica. Although the main root is thick and long, drought resistance, wind resistance and cold resistance are strong, but because of its weak disease resistance, it is most likely to be infected with leaf rust. The yield is lower than that of the other two varieties of coffee beans, and the processing procedure is more complicated, so it is not favored by coffee farmers, resulting in a continuous decline in the planting area of this kind of coffee tree, and even on the verge of extinction. But the sweet, sour and unique flavor of elephant coffee beans cannot be replaced by two coffee beans. Without the high-quality acidity of Arabica coffee, there is more sweetness of stamina, with a lingering aftertaste in the mouth. But we prefer to describe it as a durian in coffee, people who like it more like it, and people who don't like it don't want to touch it.

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