What are the countries that grow Robusta beans? what are Robusta's mixed beans?

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Robusta beans from Java have a unique smell and are often used as a recipe for espresso because they are rich in oil. The coffee produced by Sulawesi is rated as having a special herbal flavor, deep and clean.

In particular, there is a special animal called civet in the mountains of Indonesia (it has also appeared in Taiwan and is currently listed as one of the representative animals of Yangming Mountain). It makes Indonesia produce almost the most expensive coffee in the world-civet coffee. This kind of cat likes to eat coffee berries, and the hard coffee beans are eventually excreted because they are indigestible. During the period of passing through the cat's digestive tract, caffeine will produce a unique and complex flavor after fermentation, which makes many gluttons like this kind of coffee with special aroma. However, because the coffee produces very little, it is extremely expensive, ranging from a few hundred dollars per pound.

Vietnam is also one of the top coffee producers in the world. At present, the vast majority of coffee trees in Vietnam are Robusta. Due to the emergence of leaf rust in the mid-19th century, the Arabica coffee trees in Vietnam were destroyed and replaced with Robusta coffee trees resistant to leaf rust.

Robusta coffee beans have a unique aroma and bitter taste, and they contain more caffeine than Arabica. Because of the high extraction ratio, this kind of coffee beans are often used to make instant coffee, canned coffee or mixed with three-in-one coffee.

In recent years, India has also begun to plant coffee trees in Arabica and is more committed to coffee production, but there has been no development in the boutique coffee market.

What is mixed Robusta?

In coffee, mixed beans generally refer to the blending of coffee beans, and what we call blending is generally "blending coffee beans with different characteristics produced from different places", so does Robusta blending mean: match the Congo with Brazil? Or Indonesia, Vietnam and Brazil?

Take a sip of coffee extracted from 100% robusta beans, and you will find that the bitter and spicy taste is harder to swallow than the worst traditional Chinese medicine you have ever tasted, so we usually mix robusta seeds with Arabica beans. For example, the famous coffee brand Lavazza dominates the coffee market with its classic 7:3 match of 70% Arabica: 30% Robusta.

Adding Robusta coffee beans to the mix can not only increase the concentration and alcohol thickness of the coffee, but also reduce the cost, so as a sharp tool to adjust the price, Robusta is regarded as a treasure by roasters to some extent.

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