What kind of bourbon is it? The difference between yellow bourbon and pink coffee varieties

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Bourbon coffee is the same old coffee as Typica coffee, which belongs to Arabica coffee. Bourbon coffee was originally grown in Reunion, where it was also known as le Bourbon Island before 1789, so the coffee variety was also named "bourbon".

With the same old variety of coffee beans, unlike the tin card species, the leaves of the bourbon species are wider, the growth is denser, and the yield of coffee is higher than that of the tin card. Coffee bean particles are large in shape, uniform in size, uniform in color, and bright red when green fruits are ripe.

The output of bourbon coffee is nearly 30% higher than that of tin card, but the overall yield is still low among many coffee beans and is also vulnerable to rust leaf disease.

Most bourbon fruits are red, but two natural varieties show different colors, orange bourbon and yellow bourbon.

On the other hand, the yellow bourbon species is a hybrid between the bourbon species and other varieties. Because of its low yield and relatively intolerant to wind and rain, it has not been widely planted. However, when planted in high altitude areas, it will have excellent flavor performance, which is more common in recent years. Yellow Bourbon, Huang bourbon, the mature consequence is actually yellow, was first found in Brazil, and now mainly grows in Brazil. It is generally thought that it may have been mutated by a cross between a bourbon with red fruit and a variety of iron pickup with yellow fruit called "Amerelo de Botocatu". On the palate, there is often sweet and smooth fruit sweetness, with obvious nutty flavor, balanced and supple acidity, weak and clean bitterness, rich chocolate aroma and nutty flavor.

Pink bourbon, as its name implies, its coffee cherries are romantic pink when ripe. It is a very rare new variety, which is bred by the cross between red bourbon and yellow bourbon. The reason why pink bourbon is rare is that it is difficult to maintain this beautiful pink, sometimes some orange bourbon will be harvested, that is because the color of coffee fruit is ultimately determined by the recessive genes in the pollen grains. Among the pollen grains we selected for hybridization, there are both yellow genes inclined to yellow bourbon and red genes inclined to red bourbon, and these are recessive genes, which are very easy to interfere with each other.

It is said that pink bourbon was first planted by a coffee farmer named Gabriel Casta?o in Huilan. At the beginning, it was mixed with other bourbon and Kaddura, and then it was picked and treated separately, and its cup performance is also very special. Different from the general flat flavor of bourbon, pink bourbon shows more citrus berry compound performance in acidity and flavor.