The type and origin of coffee beans typica coffee is actually one of the oldest varieties.

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Front Street-Tin Card Coffee Variety Introduction

Iron pickup and bourbon were two ancient breeds. They had been bred in different soil and water in the New World for 300 years, creating thousands of varieties and hybrids.

Two Arabican varieties, the hybrid of which results in a new variety.

A new variety produced by interbreeding Arabica with Canifra, Liberia, etc.

The Characteristics of Iron Pickup and Its Variants

Typica iron pickup, refers to the typical, it is the representative variety of Arabica species, but also the earliest transplanted from Yemen to India, Indonesia and Central and South America, everywhere flowering varieties.

The old iron card is characterized by larger beans and longer pointed beans, but after transplanting to the New World, it has evolved into many different forms, including oval and small iron cards.

The taste of iron card coffee beans is very balanced, mild and supple is its biggest feature, the acid flavor of iron pickup, not tricky, not changeable, suitable for those who are afraid of acid, but iron pickup planted at an altitude lower than 1000 meters or at a temperature too high, easy to have sawdust flavor.

Poor disease resistance and low productivity are its biggest weaknesses.

Common variants of iron cards:

Elephant bean: A variety of iron pickup found in Brazil. The bean is three times larger than the average coffee bean. The bean yields less fruit, the bean is large, and the post-processing is troublesome. Therefore, it is not cultivated in many countries. Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador have a small amount of cultivation.

Kona Iron Pickup: The iron pickups on the Big Island of Hawaii come from Guatemala. The Big Island is located in the subtropical zone of 20 degrees north latitude. The temperature is cooler. Coupled with fertile volcanic rock soil, although the planting altitude is low, it breeds a clean sour fragrance and sweet feeling, which is even better than that of the Blue Mountains at higher altitudes.

Blue Mountain Iron Pickup: In the 1820s, it was transplanted from Martinique to the Blue Mountain of Jamaica. After more than 200 years, Blue Mountain Iron Pickup evolved better disease resistance, especially for fruit rot disease. However, Blue Mountain Iron Card can not replicate its sweet fragrance when it steps out of Jamaica.

Knowledge: Pacamara is a hybrid of Pacas and Maragogype found in Salvador in 1950.

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