Introduction to the flavor and taste characteristics of coffee from San Pedro Manor, Puerto Rico, with complete flavor and no bitterness

Puerto Rico has a history of producing coffee for nearly 300 years and was once one of the most productive regions in the world. According to the Starbucks website, Spanish explorers brought coffee from Louis XIV plantations in France to the island in 1736. The fame of Yaucono Selecto is once indistinguishable from that of Kona in Hawaii and Blue Mountain in Jamaica. It is also a favorite of European palaces and the Vatican. Until the 19th century, there were cafes in Vienna, Paris and Madrid. Puerto Rico had a history of producing coffee for nearly 300 years and was once one of the most productive regions in the world. According to the Starbucks website, Spanish explorers brought coffee from Louis XIV plantations in France to the island in 1736. The fame of Yaucono Selecto is once indistinguishable from that of Kona in Hawaii and Blue Mountain in Jamaica. It is also a favorite of European palaces and the Vatican. Until the 19th century, it was the only cafe in Vienna, Paris and Madrid.

But today, outside the island, Puerto Rico coffee is seldom seen or heard of, and even its major shareholder Coca-Cola does not actively promote it. Instead, the mixed roasting of coffee from Puerto Rico and Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic is not particularly indicative of the decline of the Puerto Rican coffee industry, which has a lot to do with its awkward economic and political situation. During the Spanish-American War, the United States had established a strong and lasting coffee trade agreement with Brazil, a coffee giant, and did not give too much thought to Puerto Rico, which had just been successful. Moreover, the economic purpose of the United States in the Caribbean is mainly focused on the sugar industry, which has made the local sugar cane production so booming that small-scale coffee retail investors have no way to fight, and coffee manufacturers who can survive have to merge again and again to retain their strength. It is said that the quality of local varieties has also been affected.

Nowadays, Puerto Rico's coffee is not even enough for domestic demand, and it still needs to import raw beans from other places for baking, so we don't know how much of the coffee we snapped up was picked on the island.

But the shortage of coffee on the island is not entirely due to the decline in production. Because of the closer relationship with the United States, few local people are willing to engage in the coffee-picking business. According to records, 1/4 of the coffee on the trees is wasted every year because it is not picked, because coffee farmers go to work in the United States. Those who stay, because of the minimum wage law, government subsidies, and other social welfare reasons, are also unwilling to do the work of bending over the slopes all day in the scorching sun. According to the latest statistics, today the population of the island is about 3.9 million, while the population of Puerto Rico in the United States reaches 4.2 million. No wonder the state government has recently been weighing the use of prisoners to pick coffee beans. It's just that no one knows how effective the work of these prisoners who prefer to stay in air-conditioned cells is.