Introduction to the Flavor of Iron pickup Coffee Fine Coffee in the producing area of Iron pickup Coffee Manor

Ironpika is commonly found in Jamaica in Central America and Indonesia in Asia. Its fruit is usually large and oval, while its leaves are slender. Like to grow in fertile mountain soil, cold resistance and disease resistance are weak, the yield is low. The famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee belongs to this variety and traces back to its roots. Typica, which originated from Ethiopia, is the earliest original species of coffee, and bourbon is a variety of typica. Both of them have rich aroma and excellent taste performance, and they are also a very high quality variety in Arabica. It is said that the coffee tree species that was first introduced into Zhukula in Yunnan is typica. When coffee was planted on a large scale in Baoshan area in the 1950s, it was also typica and bourbon. But the problem is that although these two varieties have excellent taste, they are not resistant to diseases and insect pests, are prone to leaf rust, and the yield per mu is relatively low, so corresponding to this, there are "new varieties".

The so-called new variety actually refers to catimor (Katimo), which is the hybrid of timor and Arabica of the Roberta family. Compared with the old variety, it lacks rich aroma and taste, and has a relatively shallow smell of grass and soil, but it has the advantages of resistance to diseases and insect pests, easy to manage, large yield, and its yield per mu can reach up to 350kg raw beans, which is more than twice that of the old variety.

So when Nestl é succeeded in promoting high-yield new varieties in Pu'er in the 1990s, brown farmers in Baoshan area also cut down old varieties and changed them to new ones. With a round of coffee expansion, new varieties are increasing and old varieties are decreasing day by day. Finally, today's situation: the old varieties have almost been cut down, and the little ones that survived are all "old, weak, sick and disabled". Most of the trees are more than 20 years old. Over time, the yield and quality are much lower than before, of course, if it is used to make instant coffee or general commercial beans, high-yield catimor is a good choice, but if you want to look for Yunnan specialty coffee, then the old variety of iron pickup has become the first choice because of its congenital excellent genes. Therefore, this trip to Yunnan also followed the trail of the old varieties. But the reality is really cruel. Before going, Brother Zou told me that there was an old variety in his relative's house, but what he saw excitedly was a wild coffee forest. This land belonged to his aunt, because his aunt was not old enough to plant and renovate-- so these old varieties survived, but the aunt was unable to manage it alone, so he let the tree grow naturally and pick some fruit when it matured.