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I don't know how many people know the name pointed bourbon, but it is certain that those who know her must be the most knowledgeable coffee enthusiast and coffee connoisseur, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former French President Jacques Chirac and famous writer Balzac are all loyal fans of her.

Pointed bourbon is definitely one of the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world. It grows only on the island of Reunion, an overseas dependency belonging to France, covering an area of 2512 square kilometers, like a dot on a world map sandwiched between Madagascar and Mauritius. You have to use a magnifying glass or google map to find it. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1513, it was occupied by France in 1643, named Bourbon after the French royal Bourbon family, and became a French colony in 1767. It was not until the fall of the restored Bourbon dynasty after the French Revolution in 1848 that it was restored to the island of Reunion.

Now this island full of geological miracles, is the ideal country for outdoor hikers, with volcanoes, ice buckets, waterfalls, black beaches, tropical forests, rich in vanilla and rum, more than 40% of the area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Recently, it attracted the world's attention because the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which had been missing for more than a year, was found there.

The first coffee trees in Reunion were shipped from the Yemeni port of Mocha in 1715, with a total of 40, but unfortunately only two survived, and the government adopted a rigid measure from 1719 to 1723. Legislation requires islanders to plant 200 mocha coffee trees a year, and anyone who damages them must be executed. At that time, it was also called Bourbon Island, and naturally the coffee produced here used that name.

The pointed bourbon is a variety derived from the island of Reunion, and we know that the normal bourbon variety has short round beans, but in 1810 Rayloy, a coffee farmer on the island of Bourbon, found that there was a short coffee in the garden, with smaller leaves, shaped like laurel leaves, and coffee beans were thinner and yielded less than ordinary bourbon. Botanists confirmed that it was a new variety at that time, so they named her after the name of the person who found her. Also because the two ends of the bean body are very sharp, it is commonly known as the pointed body bourbon.

In addition to its unique appearance, the pointed Bourbon has some unique characteristics that make it a unique breed. She is a natural semi-decaf coffee with only half the caffeine content of ordinary Arabica, the common Arabica caffeine content of about 1.2%, sharp body bourbon only 0.6%, but mellow, with rich fruit notes.

In the first batch of baking, the lower bean temperature is relatively high, the bean temperature is 200 degrees, and the firepower is also relatively high. In the process of baking, it was found that the bean had high altitude, hard bean quality and high moisture content, so it adopted the baking method of lengthening dehydration, gradually lowering the fire and climbing steadily, adjusting the firepower before the bean entered the yellowing point, dehydration and explosion to avoid burns on the bean surface, and chose to glide out of the oven for 2 minutes and 50 seconds after the end of the explosion to prolong the caramelization reaction time and grind off the excess fruit acid. Add more nutty and nutty aftertaste.

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