Arabica species

If Arabica coffee beans are favored by God, Robusta is the devil's booger, because of the market's love of Arabica coffee. Arabica can become the "aristocrat" of coffee beans and enjoy the highest honor as the most precious variety, depending on the high standards of its plant's growing environment.

Arabica coffee is generally thought to originate from the Ethiopian plateau and is widely distributed in the tropics, mainly in Kenya and Ethiopia in Africa, outside Argentina and Brazil in South America, Laos and India in Central America and Asia. Its planting area is the broadest but the planting conditions are very stringent compared with the Robusta species. Arabica needs slopes with an altitude of 900 to 2000 meters, suitable growth temperature of 15Mel 24 ℃, greater humidity, annual rainfall of not less than 1500 milliliters, fertile soil, proper sunshine and shade conditions, slow growth pace and poor ability to resist diseases and insect pests, and is vulnerable to frost and drought. So an Arabica coffee tree produces about 500 grams of raw coffee beans a year, but the caffeine content is about 1% of its weight and the quality is very high.

In recent years, as the market pays more and more attention to high-quality coffee, coffee producing and consuming countries continue to introduce new quality evaluation standards. Many countries, especially those developing countries that have earned foreign exchange from coffee since the 17th century, in order to ensure the annual yield, reduce the risk, mutate and breed Arabica species, and increase the planting of hybrids, in order to enhance economic strength. As a result, many new varieties have emerged, such as Bourbon in Madagascar, Kaddura in Brazil and Kent in Indonesia.

The improved varieties shorten the harvest time, have high disease resistance, and the granules of coffee beans are large and full, but ignore the problem of improving taste quality. Therefore, although the disease resistance and yield of the new varieties are better than the original ones, the unique rich flavor of the traditional varieties is irreplaceable.

In the past, many international coffee brands would buy coffee beans from Brazil, because Brazil is the country with the largest number of Arabica coffee beans, but with the progress of technology, Brazil has also become the country with the largest number of improved Arabica varieties in the world. In addition, it is also the second largest producer of Robusta species, so many cafes have begun to aim at Asia and Africa in order to ensure the original flavor of Arabica species. Black Knight's R & D team walked through the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, climbed the Andes and finally locked in the volcanic areas along the coast of Southeast Asia, and spent a lot of money on introducing millions of precision measuring instruments to independently test the top coffee bean varieties in the world. accurately grasp the characteristics of coffee, in order to select the most suitable for the taste of coffee varieties. After months of debugging, it is found that the coffee produced by Arabica coffee beans on Mount Boloven is very suitable for Easterners, with less Western sweetness and more full-bodied original flavor.