Papua New Guinea Chimeir Estate PB Peaberry Coffee Beans: Grading, Pricing, Green Beans and Roast Level

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Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: FrontStreet Coffee, No. 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk
Origin: Papua New Guinea

Coffee Details

Country: Papua New Guinea

Grade: PB Peaberry

Region: Waghi Valley

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Washed

Varieties: Arusha, Catimor, Caturra

Estate: Kimel Estate

Understanding Peaberry

Now let me introduce PB, the full name Peaberry, which we often call round bean. Usually, there are two seeds in one coffee fruit - these are the common coffee beans we see, with one curved side and one flat side, similar to peanut shape. We call them flat beans. Round beans, however, have only one coffee bean in one coffee fruit. The bean shape is elliptical, and they account for a very small proportion of all fruits on a coffee tree. Round beans are all selected one by one by hand, so the overall quality is guaranteed, and it's no surprise that they taste good.

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 full of bright fruit aroma but without strong acidity. Its characteristics include a silky smooth mouthfeel and wonderful aroma, with moderate acidity, making it a rare coffee variety with both high body and medium acidity.

Brewing Instructions

Hand-pour Papua New Guinea. 15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Fujisanki ghost tooth grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g water for 27 seconds bloom, then pour to 105g and stop pouring. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half, then continue pouring slowly until 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Flavor Profile

Flavor: Nuts, sugarcane, spices

Papua New Guinea Coffee in the Specialty Market

In recent years, Papua New Guinea coffee has begun to represent Oceania in the world specialty coffee ranks with its unique high-quality washed Arabica beans. Papua New Guinea coffee features full-bodied beans, moderate acidity, and aromatic, smooth flavor characteristics.

Geographic and Environmental Context

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania. In Malay, "Papua" means "curly hair." It is said that in 1545, explorer Ortiz Reteze reached the island and found that most of the islanders' hair was curly, 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 and has a standard island climate, located between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude. It has tropical rainforest, volcanic rocks, and plateau terrain, with altitudes ranging from 1200-2500 meters, making it a paradise for growing coffee.

Production and Economic Impact

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

Natural Advantages

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 coffee beans are as beautiful and precious as the country's national bird, the bird of paradise.

Kimel Estate Details

Large plantations usually have their own washing stations, while smaller individual coffee farmers can better control the quality and flavor expression of their output. Located in Papua New Guinea's western highlands near the Waghi Valley and adjacent to the Kimel River Valley, Kimel Estate, like many large farms/plantations, 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 - in a sense, it's a private cooperative. Due to excellent growing environmental conditions and stable quality control processes at the processing plant, the produced coffee has active brightness while retaining a considerable degree of Papua New Guinea coffee's unique flavor characteristics.

Varietal Diversity

Another special feature lies in the diversity of coffee varieties planted at Kimel, so numerous 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 for a particular variety, which also creates interesting expressions of its coffee flavor characteristics.

Tasting Experience

This peaberry from Kimel Estate has some spice aromas in its mouthfeel, with a sweet and refreshing taste of nuts and sugarcane upon entry, a creamy and smooth buttery sensation. 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.

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