Introduction to the price characteristics of Brazilian Arabica ground coffee Robusta

Introduction to the price characteristics of Brazilian Arabica ground coffee Robusta

If you want to ask the country or region that loves Robusta beans most, the first place is Italy, the hometown of espresso! To narrow it down further, to be precise, the largest use of robusta beans is in southern Italy, such as Palermo and Sicilia. In fact, in southern Italy, most of the coffee people drink contains a considerable proportion of robusta beans. It is common to have a content of 30% to 60.

Open the list of beans supplied by local wholesalers of raw coffee beans in Italy, and you will see a list of more than a dozen, or even more than 20, raw beans from coffee producing areas around the world for local coffee roasters to choose from. This phenomenon does not exist in other parts of the world, such as the United States and Canada, Northern Europe, Japan and even Taiwan.

You may wonder why Italians mix a lot of robusta in Arabica beans. Generally speaking, Italians mix with Robusta in order to increase the Crema content of Espresso.

This is only half true, and there is another little-known reason.

▶ used to be a poorer part of southern Italy, where people could only afford cheap coffee, so at first it was mixed with Robusta beans simply to reduce costs. However, after years of massive roasting and blending of Robusta, coupled with Italy's natural sensitivity to cooking, they found that Robusta beans have many qualities that Arabica beans do not have. as long as you are familiar with and fully master these qualities, a good coffee roaster will be able to produce Italian coffee beans with photographic magic.

Arabica beans are like earthlings, which are easy to see and familiar to us. Rob Tadou is like an alien, although it has the appearance of being close to the people on earth, but it is actually completely different on the inside. Earthlings and aliens have their own advantages and disadvantages. Although they are "different races and cannot be married to have children", the coffee beans baked through exquisite arrangements can contribute their respective strengths and stir up surprising sparks.

In recent years, as the market pays more and more attention to high-quality coffee, coffee producing and consuming countries continue to introduce new quality evaluation standards. Many countries, especially those developing countries that have earned foreign exchange from coffee since the 17th century, in order to ensure the annual yield, reduce the risk, mutate and breed Arabica species, and increase the planting of hybrids, in order to enhance economic strength. As a result, many new varieties have emerged, such as Bourbon in Madagascar, Kaddura in Brazil and Kent in Indonesia.

The improved varieties shorten the harvest time, have high disease resistance, and the granules of coffee beans are large and full, but ignore the problem of improving taste quality. Therefore, although the disease resistance and yield of the new varieties are better than the original ones, the unique rich flavor of the traditional varieties is irreplaceable.

In the past, many international coffee brands would buy coffee beans from Brazil, because Brazil is the country with the largest number of Arabica coffee beans, but with the progress of technology, Brazil has also become the country with the largest number of improved Arabica varieties in the world. In addition, it is also the second largest producer of Robusta species, so many cafes have begun to aim at Asia and Africa in order to ensure the original flavor of Arabica species. Black Knight's R & D team walked through the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, climbed the Andes and finally locked in the volcanic areas along the coast of Southeast Asia, and spent a lot of money on introducing millions of precision measuring instruments to independently test the top coffee bean varieties in the world. accurately grasp the characteristics of coffee, in order to select the most suitable for the taste of coffee varieties. After months of debugging, it is found that the coffee produced by Arabica coffee beans on Mount Boloven is very suitable for Easterners, with less Western sweetness and more full-bodied original flavor.