Where is the best coffee in South America? Colombian coffee beans at altitude determine the second place in the world.

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Front Street-Columbia Coffee introduction

Colombia is the third largest coffee producer and exporter in the world. It is located in the northwest of South America, facing the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador to the south and Panama to the northwest.

Colombia is rich in products, especially coffee, flowers, gold and emeralds are known as the "four treasures". Today, the country is the second largest coffee producer after Brazil, the world's largest exporter of Arabica coffee beans and the world's largest exporter of washed coffee beans. Colombian coffee is often described as silky and smooth. Of all the coffees, it is the most balanced, soft, smooth and ready to drink, and it has won praise that no other coffee can match: known as "green gold".

The earliest records of coffee cultivation in Colombia appear in a book called "The Illustrated Orinoca" by Jose Gumilla, a Spanish missionary. He describes what he saw when he preached on both sides of the Meta River in 1730, in which he mentioned the local coffee plantation. By 1787, other missionaries had spread coffee to other parts of Colombia.

Locals plant tall trees or banana trees around coffee trees. Build an Arbor for coffee trees at the seedling stage to ensure the cool and humid environment needed for coffee growth. Due to the high humidity and small temperature difference in the coffee forest, the coffee beans mature slowly.

They do not have heavy machinery to harvest and irrigate, nor do they have spare money to hire workers. All coffee fruits are picked by hand, which is conducive to the accumulation of caffeine and aromatic substances, so the quality of coffee is the best.

A unique variety of coffee

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.

At present, pink bourbon can be seen in Colombia and Guatemala. Take this batch of pink bourbon coffee as an example, there are about 1800 coffee trees. Each tree produces about 1.8kg fresh fruit in the first production season. After peeling and pulp treatment, about 0.36kg coffee beans are obtained. In a normal production season, the output of this batch of coffee is less than 650kg.

Knowledge: Colombian coffee is famous for its boutique quality, soft taste and high taste.

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