Announcement of the results of the first COE Excellence Cup in Indonesia in 2021

Previously, the more representative coffee in Indonesia was Manning, Kopi Luwak, and Java Coffee. These coffees are mainly based on a strong bitter tone.

In 2021, Indonesia also held the first COE (Excellence Cup). The Zhuoyue Cup is the most famous coffee auction, which aims to select high-quality coffee beans from the organization's producing countries every year, which are endorsed by professional coffee cup testers around the world. Coffee beans with a test score of more than 87 points (30 places) are selected for global auction. This competition can promote the development of coffee quality in various producing countries. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, it can be simply understood that holding a COE competition can fully demonstrate that this country can produce internationally recognized "boutique coffee beans." (don't backwards understand, some producing countries do not hold COE, but also can be internationally recognized boutique coffee beans, such as Panama, they have their own raw bean competition BOP.) the first COE competition held in Indonesia in 2021 also means officially becoming the 14th COE host country. COE is closely related to boutique coffee. Indonesia has always been silent when talking about boutique coffee in the past, because coffee variety, planting altitude and planting level are not advantages. When Indonesia's Mantenin and cat shit were world-famous, the concept of boutique coffee had not been widely spread. It can be understood that Indonesian coffee was a good coffee in the old days. But it's not today's boutique coffee.

Indonesian coffee is often described as herbal, spicy, wild, mellow, muddy and unique fragrance. It is a veritable single product coffee bean with distinctive flavor in the producing area. At least among the coffee we drink in coffee shops, Indonesian coffee is the most recognizable because of its unique spice and herbal flavor that other coffee beans cannot imitate.

Why Indonesia holds COE, there may be no bitter individual coffee in the future. Let's first take a look at the flavor description of the award-winning coffee beans.

A total of 26 beans were selected, because there are too many beans, only some representative pictures are put here. They were 1st, 2nd, 10th and 26th respectively. The first and second place can see the level of the best coffee in Indonesia in 2021, COE's credibility is still relatively high, the first place gives 89.82 points, the second place 89.04 points, no more than 90 points, but also reflects the real situation of Indonesian coffee. The second is to observe the flavor description of these selected beans, with the characteristic flavor of Indonesian beans "spices, cloves, chocolate, wild", as well as some fruit flavors "cranberries, oranges, cherries."... " . This is a little different from the Indonesian coffee we come into contact with every day. The third is to observe the flavor description of different rankings, the flavor description at the top will prefer the sour fruit description, and the flavor description at the bottom will be sweet and sugar. Qianjie guessed that this should be related to the acid item in the COE score. It also shows that in the current mainstream scoring system, the lack of sour coffee is at a disadvantage.

Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee producer and the most bitter coffee producer. Holding a COE also shows that Indonesia intends to develop boutique coffee, which can also promote local enthusiasm and guide the concept of boutique coffee cultivation. But it also shows the trend of coffee flavor transformation in Indonesia, which will take at least 10 years. Maybe we are a little alarmist, "doesn't a well-known international coffee chain always insist on deep roasting coffee?"

But looking back on 40 years ago, coffee was baked all over the world, but we who were born today are only in this process of imperceptible transformation.