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Is it Robusta or Arabica? Coffee bean variety Rwanda washing treatment bourbon variety

Published: 2024-09-20 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/20, 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. Ethiopia Typi

Coffee has more than 100 coffee varieties, the more common coffee are: Arabica Arabica, outstanding personality, unique flavor, is the main boutique coffee, mainly used for coffee shop operations and high-end coffee market supply; Robusta Robusta, flavor rough, high caffeine content, not a boutique coffee, often used for instant coffee processing and Italian coffee mixed beans.

Ethiopia Typica (iron pickup) and Yemen Bourbon (bourbon) are the oldest coffee varieties known so far. They have been transplanted from their original places to Central and South America and Asia to derive many Arabica variants. Arabica coffee cultivated in Yunnan Province of China belongs to one of Typica variants, and Bourbon variants exist in other regions.

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Country: Rwanda

Production area: Lutexi Luo production area in Western Province

Altitude: 1827 m

Rainfall: >1500mm

Treatment method: washing, elevated shelf drying

Breed: BM-139 (bourbon) species

Treatment Plant: Mousioui Treatment Plant

Farm owners: 1756 smallholder members (approximately 253 plants per smallholder)

Flavor: Red apple, cherry, cinnamon, honey

[Mushonyi Processing Plant's record of winning awards is amazing. Apart from winning the COE Excellence Cup in one fell swoop in 2010, Mushonyi Processing Plant won the championship in four batches in 2011 alone, ranking 12th, 16th, and 28th!!!]

Rwanda can be said to be one of the fast-growing fine coffee producing countries in East Africa. In addition to the sad stories about the Rwandan massacre, the quality of its fine coffee has also improved very quickly. We have tested several fresh, elegant and sour cups this year.

Rwandan coffee, like many African countries, is mainly produced by small farmers. During the harvest period, the ripe coffee cherries are collected and sent to the processing station for processing. Every year, farmers gather ripe coffee berries for processing at processing stations, first picking them by hand to ensure that no immature or damaged fruit is mixed in. Then remove the peel, wash and ferment for 12-18 hours under cool and low temperature environment, and clean the adhered pectin in the channel. During the drying process, the members of the processing station will manually turn and carefully care to ensure that the shelled green beans do not lose moisture or dry unevenly in full sunlight until the moisture content stability of the green beans drops to less than 14%.

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