Boutique Coffee beans: an introduction to "Shade planting" Coffee Shade Grown

If you pay careful attention, some raw bean sacks will be marked with the word Shade Grown, and most of them will be translated into Chinese as "shade planting".

The so-called shade planting refers to the most famous Arabica species of coffee varieties, which accounts for 60% to 70% of the global coffee production statistics, and is considered to be a coffee with excellent flavor suitable for tasting carefully, compared to Robusta coffee.

In order to avoid excessive sunlight, coffee trees also need umbrellas in some cases.

In one case, in the most natural case, coffee trees are born in rainforests or forests and have their own survival rules in the big forests. Coffee trees are trees in the middle of the space, and tall trees act as umbrellas above the head of the tamen.

In one case, artificial coffee trees are not accompanied by natural companions, but are served by tall trees specially arranged by farmers, such as banana trees.

In one case, you don't have to bother at all, because God will take care of it for you. In some coffee producing areas, due to climatic conditions and cloudy fog, the brightest light in the afternoon is obscured by considerate clouds and fog, only the protected coffee trees are happy. It is completely beautiful, typical of the blue mountains of Jamaica.

In one case, life is diverse, and so are coffee trees. Trees in some places are naturally delicate and cannot survive without shade, but there are also strong and self-reliant trees. The most typical is Brazil, which produces the most coffee in the world, accounting for 30% of the global output. In this coffee country, coffee also completely inherits the characteristics of the high and magnanimous Bavarian plateau, cheerful and magnanimous under the care of the sun, maybe solarization in Brazil simply has something to do with it.

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Qingdao Xiumen Coffee blog