Coffee godmother stunning fish pond coffee beans

"it's really amazing." the crystal mine coffee beans in Nantou Yuchi Township are favored by Erna Knutsen, who is known as the godmother of boutique coffee. She specially came to visit Taiwan and enjoyed them again in the coffee bean producing area today.

Taiwan's Yang Jieru won the runner-up in the World Wind Pot Coffee Competition in Japan in September last year. The coffee beans used in the competition are crystal mine coffee beans grown and roasted by Yu Fangxia, the owner of Dashan Crystal Coffee Farm in Yuchi Township. Taiwan has never been on the list of international raw bean producing areas, and this Taiwan-made coffee bean actually won the name in the world competition and immediately attracted wide attention.

Erna Knutsen is a legendary figure in the international coffee industry. In 1974, she first put forward the concept of Specialty Coffee (boutique coffee), advocated to improve the quality of coffee, and attached importance to the production of different flavors of coffee from different areas, leading to the global revolution of boutique coffee.

In 1991, the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award to Knutsen for her outstanding contributions, which led the international coffee community to regard her as the godmother of boutique coffee. Last year, through the introduction of Wu Chien-wen, then secretary general of the Taiwan Fine Coffee Association, Knutsen got this raw coffee bean from Yuchi Township in Taiwan. after personally baking and cup testing, Wu Chien-wen was greatly surprised, and then asked Wu Chien-wen to arrange for Taiwan to visit Yu Fangxia to see what kind of environment could breed such a special flavor of boutique coffee.

In the morning, Knutsen, accompanied by Chen Jinlun, head of Fish Pond, went to Yu Fangxia's coffee farm to explore the planting and roasting of coffee beans, and once again enjoyed the crystal mineral coffee. "at first there was a great aroma and sweetness, and then there was the lingering taste of chocolate, which is amazing and memorable," Knutsen praised the crystal coffee with an intoxicated look. She said that traveling around the world, the coffee here surprised her, she very much hope that Taiwan has more such good coffee, can buy back, she is also happy to endorse crystal coffee.

Chen Jinlun said that although Knutsen is more than 90 years old, he is still tasting around the world, looking for good raw coffee beans. This visit to Taiwan to visit the fish pond coffee producing area proves that the quality of fish pond coffee is recognized and favored internationally. Black tea, shiitake mushrooms, and orchids are known as the "three treasures of fish ponds." although the planting area of coffee is not large, the quality of the coffee grown is amazing even among international experts. Chen Jinlun hopes to market fish pond coffee all over the world through Knutsen.