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The story and characteristics of iron pickup coffee beans are there any varieties of iron pickup coffee that belong to Arabica?

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Typica is one of the most iconic coffee varieties in the world. It can be traced back to the birthplace of Arabica coffee in Ethiopia and is essential for understanding the coffee we drink today. Its sensitivity to diseases and insect pests makes it an unpopular choice. However, consider its

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Typica is one of the most iconic coffee varieties in the world. It can be traced back to the birthplace of Arabica coffee in Ethiopia and is essential for understanding the coffee we drink today. The flavor of this variety of iron pickup is very excellent, and its performance in the cup test is very good. However, its disease resistance and insect resistance are relatively weak, and it will have a better flavor if it is planted at a higher altitude (more than 1200 m).

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What is an iron pickup? Iron pickup is one of the oldest varieties in Arabica, which was once widely planted all over the world, but now some major coffee producing areas prefer to plant coffee varieties with high disease resistance and insect resistance due to leaf rust. At present, the more famous tin card producing areas are North Sumatra in Indonesia, Blue Mountains in Jamaica, Kona in Hawaii, Yunnan old species in China, and so on.

Iron pickup Typica has distinct characteristics, it is probably the most easily identified variety. These plants are conical, with main vertical trunks up to 5 meters high. This height means that the distance between branches and nodes on the same branch is longer than that of other varieties.

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The lateral branches form an angle of 50 to 80 °with the vertical trunk. The trunk and branches are not very strong. Leaves, fruits and raw beans are usually slender, and the bud tips of young leaves are bronze. Ironpickup has a smoother leaf surface and fewer wavy boundaries than other Arabica varieties. The typical iron pickup fruit is bright red when it is ripe.

The bronze color of the top leaf of the iron pickup is one of the characteristics, with large beans, pointed oval or thin pointed shape, and some people call it "red top coffee". Iron pickup coffee has its unique quiet and clean flavor, as well as balanced features, high cleanliness, but the only drawback is insufficient production, altitude requirements, at the same time easy to infection with leaf rust, and resistance to diseases and insect pests is not strong.

Blue Mountain Iron pickup Coffee beans

Jamaica Blue Mountain one is a kind of iron pickup. The Blue Mountain Coffee in front street comes from Clifton Farm, which is one of the oldest farms in the Blue Mountain area. Because the island is closed, the genes of the iron card species on the island are well preserved. In the flavor of the performance of clean and mellow taste, nuts, chocolate, caramel flavor.

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Yunnan iron pickup coffee beans

At present, 99% of the coffee in Yunnan is Katim coffee, and only a small number of farmers still keep the iron pickup coffee. As early as 2013, Qianjie began to experiment with iron pickup coffee in Lincang, Yunnan Province. growing coffee is a very long cycle. it takes at least 5 years to raise seedlings, transplant, blossom and bear fruit, and it will take another 2-3 years if the yield is to be stable.

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It was not until 2020 that Qianjie harvested a large number of iron pickup coffee beans, which showed the flavor of plum, brown sugar, nut and cocoa after baking and cup test.

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