What is Brazilian coffee? Brazilian coffee beans taste characteristics

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Qianjie-introduction to Brazilian coffee

It is true that Brazil used to be dominated by commodity beans, but in recent years, the third wave of Brazilian coffee has become more and more intense, and more and more consumers have a demand for boutique coffee. in turn, it has promoted more Brazilian estates to grow boutique coffee and carry out more detailed post-processing and more baristas to develop new varieties and fermentation methods.

The second reason is the lack of self-promotion, because the Brazilian Fine Coffee Association does not have a lot of funding, unlike neighboring Colombia, where every bag of raw beans exported is subject to coffee tax for the association's publicity and promotion spending. Brazil once had such a policy but was abolished in 1991.

But in fact, Brazil has the potential to become a big producer of fine coffee, because Brazil has a long history of coffee growers, Brazil has the largest plateau in the world, and now many young people will specially study agriculture or bachelor's and doctoral degrees related to coffee in order to better manage and inherit their own estates.

Kaduai, from the Institute of Agronomy in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (IAC), is a cross between the New World species (Mundo Novo) and the Kaddura species (Caturra). Because the plants are small, they can be closely distributed together in batch cultivation, and the planting density is almost twice that of Bourbon coffee, which makes it much more productive than bourbon. In addition, although its resistance to diseases and insect pests is not strong, the advantage of plant shape makes it relatively easy to deal with diseases and insect pests manually.

Kaduai means "very good". Today, the Kaduai variety of coffee is considered to have good (not amazing) cup quality. It is divided into two kinds: yellow cherry berries and red cherry berries. it was first crossed between yellow Kaddura and New World in 1949 and was originally called Hmur2077.

The variety was officially released in Brazil in 1972 and has been selected through pedigree selection (single plant selection through successive generations) and widely planted there. Today, in Brazil, there are a variety of Catuai planting production pedigrees to choose from; some have high planting efficiency. Kaduai, which is transferred from Brazil to Central America, seems to be less productive; for example, studies have found that Kaduai introduced in Honduras and Costa Rica does not have a significant yield advantage over Kaddura.

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