Introduction to the price characteristics, flavor description, quality grinding scale of Arabica coffee beans in Latin America

Introduction to the price characteristics, flavor description, quality grinding scale of Arabica coffee beans in Latin America

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a coffee brand born in Southern California in 1963, buys coffee beans only from small farms growing at 6000 feet above sea level and from private plantations in East Africa, Latin America and the Pacific, and selects only the top 1% Arabica beans for baking to ensure that a large number of Arabica beans are forced to be hoarded every year. It was introduced and trumpeted by some merchants in the name of "Arabica". Thus it can be seen that most of the "Arabica" on the market can not represent "high quality" coffee beans, they break away from the meaning of high quality, and have only become a vague concept of variety.

Seeing this, is there no favor for those "high-quality" coffee? Don't worry, no matter how chaotic the coffee industry is, there will be a few pieces of pure land to cultivate Arabica beans with a better, fuller and rich flavor. And the higher the altitude, the higher the quality of Arabica beans, but the price is that the success rate of cultivation is greatly reduced and the planting cost is greatly increased. For Arabica coffee trees above 4500 feet, each one takes a great risk during the breeding period.

The instability of cultivation factors makes it difficult to guarantee the quality of raw beans. Even with experienced technology, it is impossible to resist the forces of nature, so most planting parks do not have fixed suppliers and need to be selected and screened by various coffee merchants according to the output quality of raw beans in that year.

Jamaican Blue Mountain is an excellent coffee; Tibica, native to Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan, is the most widely cultivated variety of coffee in the Western Hemisphere; and Hawaii's Kona, which has a high yield in Hawaii, is comparable in quality to Blue Mountain coffee, with a price difference of only $1 to $3.

The bourbon subspecies was introduced to America by French immigrants in the 18th century from the island of Island of Bourbon (today's French island of Reunion Island of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar). It is now widely cultivated in the Western Hemisphere, such as Brazil, and a small amount in Yunnan, China. The caffeine content of Bobang subspecies is 20% to 30% higher than that of Tibica subspecies, but less than most coffee subspecies. At first, the main branch and the trunk grew upward at 45 degrees, and drooped with the fruit load. The lateral branches are denser, the fruit is more, and the yield is higher, but the berries are smaller and mature faster, so they are not resistant to strong wind and heavy rain. Bourbon coffee is a variety of small-grain coffee second only to Tibica, with more fruit, higher yield, but smaller berries and slower ripening. The small-grain coffee grown in Yunnan, China is mainly Tibika and Bobang subspecies. From the botanical point of view of coffee, Yunnan small-grain coffee is genetically similar to the recognized best blue mountains in Jamaica (Jamaica Blue Mountain) and Kona in Hawaii.