Why the pointed bourbon is too sour? what are the flavor characteristics of pointed bourbon coffee?

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Introduction of Qianjie-pointed bourbon varieties

Many people have never heard of pointed bourbon, so I'll tell you today that it is the most expensive kind of coffee in the world.

Pointed Bourbon is a variety derived from Reunion Island. we know that the normal bourbon variety has short round beans, but in 1810 Rayloy, a coffee farmer on Bourbon Island, found that there was a short coffee in the garden with smaller leaves, shaped like laurel leaves, and coffee beans were also more pointed and thinner and produced less than ordinary bourbon. It was confirmed by botanists at that time that it was a new variety, so she was named 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.

It is a natural low-caffeinated coffee bean, and its caffeine content is only half that of Arabica. But it does not affect the flavor because of the lack of caffeine. Because the output is very rare, you may not be able to buy good pointed bourbon even if you are willing to spend a lot of money.

The bean is grown on the island of Reunion, an area of only 2512 square kilometers between Madagascar and Mauritius. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1513, 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.

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 the normal bourbon variety has a short round bean body, 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 also more pointed and thinner and produced 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. At the same time, because the two ends of the bean body are very sharp, it is also commonly known as "pointed body bourbon".

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