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You know what? A long time ago, the first coffee tree in Yunnan was brought by French missionaries and recorded as small fruit coffee. Due to the small size of coffee beans after peeling off the peel and pulp, it is called small-grain coffee by Chinese people.

Later, after genetic identification, these coffee trees, which first entered Yunnan, were Arabica tin card varieties. But the strange thing is that the Katim varieties of Arabica and Robusta are the most grown coffee beans in Yunnan. Why? In this article, Qianjie Coffee will talk to you about the story of two varieties in Yunnan.

What is the variety of iron pickup?

Typica, the oldest native variety in Ethiopia, is native to Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan. According to years of research, all Arabica are currently derived from Tibica.

In the absence of other varieties of genes, but also the most pure Arabica pedigree, Ironpika coffee beans taste elegant, clean taste, with a quiet aroma, and a good sense of sweetness.

But there are some disadvantages, such as weak physique, poor disease resistance, low fruit yield and high planting cost. At first, coffee in Yunnan was mainly planted with iron pickups, which were also varieties of iron pickups when China paid Russian debts and provided coffee goods.

But later, after the repayment was completed, the state no longer uniformly purchased coffee exports, and the cost of maintaining iron pickup coffee was high, and there was not much demand for coffee in the country, so many farmers cut down coffee trees and planted other crops. It was not until Nestl é took a fancy to Yunnan and distributed Katim coffee with strong disease and insect resistance and higher yield that Yunnan began to grow coffee again.

Flavor and taste characteristics of Yunnan Tieka coffee beans

Qianjie Coffee has grown a small number of iron pickup coffee on the hilltop of 1300m above sea level in Lincang, Yunnan Province since 2013. The reason for choosing the iron pickup is that Qianjie thinks that the fine coffee should start with the varieties. One is that after more than a hundred years of adaptation, the tin card varieties that first entered the Yunnan region will make better adjustments to their own genes in order to adapt to the local climate. Therefore, Qianjie believes that if you want Yunnan coffee to have a clean taste, you should start with the varieties.

At present, the annual yield of iron cards grown in Qianjie coffee in Yunnan is about 600 kilograms, and the traditional sun treatment brings fuller taste and slightly fermented aroma to the coffee beans. Using the ratio of powder to water at 1:15, medium grinding and water temperature of 89 degrees, the coffee flavor showed plum, berry, fermented flavor, brown sugar flavor and black tea flavor.

What is the Katim breed?

Catimor in 1959, the Portuguese mixed Brazilian Kaddura with Tim to produce a disease-resistant Katim / Katimo.

Katim is not pure Arabica blood, it is a hybrid of Tim (a hybrid with Arabica and Robusta) and Kaddura (a variety of bourbon), so Katim has 25% Robusta pedigree. And its Robusta pedigree also determines its taste defects: the aroma is not rich enough, and the overall taste is bitter.

Some poor quality Katim is easy to appear astringent taste and more irritating mildew taste. However, Katim coffee is an important main force of commercial beans because it does not need shade tree cover, easy to grow, low maintenance cost and high yield. For a long time, Katim in Yunnan was the raw material of Nestl é instant coffee. But these are more based on the fact that these coffee beans were not scientifically planted and handled more properly at that time, and these coffee beans are usually planted in areas below 1000m.

In fact, as long as the Katim variety is planted above 1200 meters, there is a scientific planting and the drying process is clean and sanitary, under the traditional sun / water washing treatment, Yunnan coffee Katim coffee can also show a good taste.

Flavor and taste characteristics of Katim coffee beans in Yunnan

The most popular coffee beans in Qianjie Coffee are carefully selected by baristas, which can represent the producing areas and the "Qianjie food beans" that can show the flavor of the producing areas, among which there are seven famous coffee producing areas. Among them, the coffee beans in Yunnan producing area are Katim coffee beans planted in 1200m from Baoshan, Yunnan, and washed with water.

Using a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, medium grinding and a water temperature of 89 degrees, the coffee shows plum, melon, nutty and black tea-like flavor.