Lucky Panamanian SOE latte and Dirty coffee are good? Description of flavor and taste characteristics of Kaddura Kaduai coffee varieties

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In late February this year, Ruixing Coffee announced on several platforms that it would travel to Ethiopia and Panama coffee producing areas with Anthony Douglas, winner of the 2022 WBC World Coffee Competition, starting in March this year. As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a heated discussion in the coffee circle!

Because in January last year, Ruixing launched a SOE coffee, using the Ethiopian Sidama Coffee Bean, which has always been famous in the coffee circle. At that time, Dangdang founder Li Guoqing posted diss lucky posts on several Short Video platforms, not to buy more than 90 tons of flower beans for monopoly.

In fact, more than 90 tons of Huakui coffee beans bought by Ruixing at that time did not affect the supply and price of Huakui coffee beans in the subsequent market. Then in September last year, Lucky hit a heavy weight! The SOE of Rose Summer Coffee was launched. The news made many of the coffee circle's friends nervous again. Although native Ethiopian summer varieties are used, they yield as much as the Ethiopian native varieties we drink daily (Heirloom), belong to a natural mixture of varieties (because they cannot be subdivided), and are also classified by the defect rate of green coffee beans as G1-G5.

The flavor is also similar to that of Ethiopia's native varieties, and there is no refined coffee flavor like the well-known Panamanian rose summer coffee. No matter which grade, its quality, flavor and price are very different from those of South American producing areas/Ethiopian Guixia Village, nor are they coffee beans that have been defined as fine. According to Xu Baolin's bean hunter 2, the original rose seeds are put into the pot after the second explosion, and the coffee cup tastes berries, nuts, spices, plant roots, etc.

However, many friends feel very wasteful about Ruixing's deep roasting of Ethiopia's flowers and roses, and say that Ruixing has ruined coffee beans. Therefore, on March 25, Ruixing said that when he officially went to Panama to find beans, some of his friends in the coffee circle were very worried about the safety of Panama's rose summer coffee…Some netizens also said: If the ancestral deep baking, there is no difference in finding it. I don't know if I'll take a fancy to Deborah or Rose from Emerald Manor.

Lucky this time, will really bring back rose summer coffee? Panama isn't just about rose coffee! Currently, Panama's rosewood coffee varieties are "Geisha T2722", which has been "tamed" for decades and generations and has a delicate floral aroma. Compared with other Arabica varieties, T2722 not only has lower fruit yield, but also has very fragile plants and is very picky about growing environment. It requires high altitude, fertile soil, cloud or plant shade, and no direct sunlight.

At the same time, the leaf system of T2722 rose coffee tree is very thin, that is to say, the efficiency of photosynthesis will be very low, the root of the tree is still very fragile, the absorption of water and nutrients is very slow, so the coffee yield is very small, and the growth environment at high altitude, the fruit maturity time will be relatively late.

A single rosewood tree produces half as much fruit as the Kadura variety, resulting in Panama producing only 3% of its rosewood beans each year.

Panama's rose summer coffee can be the world's "hot goods" ah ~~ production is small, the industry is popular, the price is high, although the quality of rose summer coffee beans is not cheap, so lucky to go to Panama this time to find rose summer beans is unlikely.

According to the posters published by Ruixing, we can see the background picture of coffee trees and coffee beans, more looking for Caturra and Catuai, which are more common in Central and South America. These two varieties are also the main force in Panama's annual coffee bean production.

Caturra

Catuai

The coffee tree advertised on the poster should be the Kadura variety, because Kadura's secondary branches are close together, which allows it to produce more fruit in the same space. Of course, he could also be kaduai, a cross between kadura and a new world variety that would yield more.

However, the two varieties do not control and carefully observe, grow a little similar, the amount of results is also more. It is presumed that the Kadura variety is due to some spacing between the fruits.

The T2722 rose coffee tree, on the other hand, will bear much less fruit, with a large spacing between the fruits and a small number of fruits.

T2722 Summer Rose

It is speculated that the reason for Kadura & Kaduai is because the roasted coffee beans at the bottom of the poster are flat and oval in shape, and the tail part of the bean body is relatively slender, which is more in line with Kaduai's bean appearance (overall appearance characteristics of coffee beans).

Well, this is just speculation ~ In fact, no matter what kind of coffee beans Ruixing will bring back in Panama this time, the answer will only be known after Ruixing products are seen. We will wait and see together.

This is not a bad thing for the coffee industry, nor does it monopolize the market. Every time Ruixing makes such a whole, it also allows more consumers to have an opportunity to know coffee beans and coffee bean varieties from a single producing area.

It will also allow more consumers to have more in-depth understanding of a single coffee bean, and naturally they will go to independent boutique coffee shops to taste it and see what the difference is between drinking the same bean in chain coffee shops and independent boutique coffee shops.

The most obvious one was the time of Huakui SOE. Later, when chatting with other coffee shop managers, they all said: During that time, there were indeed many more customers who asked Huakui Coffee ~ Many customers also said that because they drank Ruixing's Huakui SOE, they began to have more ideas about Ethiopian beans.

Good, low-yield coffee beans have little chance of monopoly, and ordinary, high-yield coffee beans do not need monopoly. As a chain coffee shop, in order to make all stores have relatively stable products, baking sacrifice some flavor is inevitable.

And every little friend who likes fine coffee doesn't need to worry that Ruixing's large purchase will raise the price of coffee beans. In recent years, there are also many beans with good quality and flavor. There is no need to focus too much on a certain coffee bean. There are still many delicious coffees waiting for everyone to taste ~

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