Papua New Guinea Chimair Estate PB Peaberry Premium Coffee Beans: Varieties, Brand Recommendations, and Estate

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Understanding Peaberry Coffee Beans

Let me introduce PB, short for Peaberry, which we commonly call round beans. Typically, a coffee cherry contains two seeds - these are the common coffee beans we know, with one curved side and one flat side, similar to a peanut shape. We call these flat beans. Peaberries, however, occur when a coffee cherry contains only one coffee bean. The bean shape is elliptical, accounting for an extremely small proportion of all fruits on a coffee tree. Peaberries are all selected by hand, one by one, ensuring overall quality, so it's not surprising that they taste excellent.

Papua New Guinea Coffee Characteristics

Papua New Guinea's coffee production is not very high, and its coffee beans are all carefully processed washed Arabica beans. Generally, washed coffee beans are filled with bright fruit aromas but don't have strong acidity. Their characteristics include a silky smooth mouthfeel and wonderful fragrance, with moderate acidity - a rare coffee variety that combines high body with medium acidity.

Brewing Method

Hand-pour Papua New Guinea: 15g of coffee, medium grind (small Fuji ghost tooth blade grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water, let it bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half before pouring again. Slowly pour until reaching 225g total. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Flavor Profile

Nutty, sugarcane, spices

The Rise of Papua New Guinea Specialty Coffee

In recent years, Papua New Guinea coffee has begun representing Oceania in entering the world of specialty coffee with its unique, high-quality washed Arabica beans. Papua New Guinea coffee is characterized by full, well-formed beans, moderate acidity, and fragrant, smooth mouthfeel characteristics.

Geography and Growing Conditions

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania. In Malay, "Papua" means "curly hair." It is said that in 1545, explorer Retes reached the island and found that most of the islanders had curly hair, so he called it "the island of curly-haired people," hence the name, which has been passed down ever since. Papua New Guinea is east of Indonesia, with a standard island climate located between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude. It has tropical rainforest volcanic rock and plateau terrain, with elevations between 1200-2500 meters - a paradise for growing coffee.

Production and Processing

Local production is not large, with about 85% of total coffee production coming from small farmers' garden cultivation systems. Small farmers join local cooperatives to share processing equipment. Coffee is the second largest agricultural export by volume from Papua New Guinea, demonstrating the importance of the coffee industry to the country's economy. Due to different coffee varieties than Indonesia, higher elevation than Sumatra, and washed processing, PNG coffee's regional taste is completely different from Indonesia's mellow and deep flavors, instead showing bright, sweet-sour characteristics and floral-fruit aromas, similar to South American flavors.

Natural Environment

Papua New Guinea has a transcendent, pristine natural environment with vast and fertile land. Its unique volcanic rock soil and abundant rainfall create excellent natural conditions for coffee growth. Papua New Guinea's top-quality coffee beans are as beautiful and precious as the country's national bird, the bird of paradise.

Kimel Estate

Large plantations typically have their own washing stations, while smaller individual coffee farmers can better control the quality and flavor expression of their output. Kimel Estate, located in the Western Highlands' Waghi Valley near the Kimel River Valley of Papua New Guinea, like many large farms/estates, has its own dedicated washing station. In fact, this is an estate jointly owned by many independent small coffee farmers from the surrounding Opais people group - in a sense, a private cooperative. Due to excellent growing environmental conditions and the washing station's stable quality control processes, the produced coffee has active brightness while preserving a considerable degree of Papua New Guinea coffee's unique flavor characteristics.

Varietal Diversity

Another special feature is the diversity of coffee varieties planted at Kimel - so many that they can't be counted on one hand: Typica, Arusha, Blue Mountain, Mundo Novo, Catimor, Caturra... and even more. In fact, just as one doesn't put all eggs in one basket, most farmers actually plant different varieties to avoid the risk of poor growth or production below expectations due to a particular variety's unsuitability, which also creates interesting expressions in their coffee's flavor characteristics.

Tasting Notes for Kimel Estate Peaberry

This Kimel Estate peaberry will have some spicy notes in the mouthfeel, followed by the sweet and refreshing taste of nuts and sugarcane upon entry, with a creamy, buttery smoothness. The peaberry's mouthfeel is more solid, with overall balanced and smooth performance. Rich in flavor and pleasant in aroma, without herbal or earthy notes, its texture is as intense and mellow as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: FrontStreet Coffee, 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk
Origin: Papua New Guinea

Specifications

Country: Papua New Guinea
Grade: PB Peaberry
Region: Waghi Valley
Roast Level: Medium Roast
Processing Method: Washed
Varieties: Arusha, Catimor, Caturra
Estate: Kimel Estate

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