Is Bali Indonesia a Robusta or Arabica species? Tin card or bourbon?

Coffee has more than a hundred varieties of coffee, the more common coffee are: Arabica Arabica, outstanding personality, unique flavor, is the main force of boutique coffee, mainly used for coffee shop management and high-end coffee market supply; Robusta Robusta, rough flavor, high caffeine content, not boutique coffee, often used for instant coffee processing and Italian coffee mixed beans.

Ethiopian Typica and Yemeni Bourbon are the oldest coffee varieties known so far. Many Arabica variants have been derived after they were transplanted from the country of origin to Central and South America and Asia. The small seed coffee cultivated in Yunnan, China is one of the Typica variants, and there are Bourbon variants in other regions.

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Iron pickup

"Typica" iron pickup, the name sounds majestic, but in fact it is not so strong. It has weak physique, poor disease resistance, easy to catch rust leaf disease and less fruit yield. It is one of the oldest native varieties in Ethiopia, and many Arabica are derived from iron pickups!

The parietal leaf of the iron pickup is bronzed, and the bean grain is large, pointed, oval or thin. Everyone is familiar with the well-known Mantenin, Blue Mountain, Elephant Bean, Kona, Yunnan Dou …... Wait. They are all derived from iron pickups.

Bourbon

"Bourbon" bourbon is an ancient and excellent variety juxtaposed with iron pickup, and some botanists believe that bourbon is an early variety of iron pickup after it was transplanted to Yemen.

Bourbon is almost all round beans, beans are a little smaller than tin card, ripening later, but the yield is 30% more than tin card. It is suitable for growing above 1200 meters above sea level, and its flavor is obviously more prominent than those below 1000 meters, but bourbon has a disadvantage that it will rest for a year as a result. Round bourbon is full of vitality, and its resistance to rust leaf disease is better than that of iron pickup, but its flavor is as good as it, or even better.

In 1810, some of the round beans in Bourbon Island mutated into pointed beans, which is known as the "pointed bourbon". It is characterized by a caffeine content of only half, low output, weak physique, and extremely rare, just like a weak aristocratic teenager.

In addition, the biggest thing that iron pickup and bourbon have in common is that they both need the protection of shade trees. if there is no shade tree to help it block the sun, it is not only not conducive to its growth, but also greatly reduces the flavor of coffee beans.

Country: Indonesia

Producing area: Kintamani Volcano area

Altitude: 1400 m

Harvest season: June to September every year

Treatment: insolation

Varieties: USDA, Karka, Smuri 795

Treatment plant: Wubu treatment plant

Flavor: ripe peach, pineapple, black sugar

In the traditional culture of Bali, coffee is used as a cheap beverage raw material. The flavor and quality of the region have been unstable or depressed, and most of them have become cheap commercial beans. Rodney and his partners decided to change the local people's stereotype of coffee. They chose Wubu Market, the cultural center of Bali, and opened the only boutique cafe on the island. Rodney and two other partners themselves have also obtained the international general coffee Q certification to check the quality of their own coffee, and it is also the only local cafe with this certification. The cafe has two bean dryers from 1kg and 4kg, and all the coffee in the shop comes from high-quality raw beans from the local or nearby producing areas (for example, Java, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Florus) and so on.