How to Properly Brew Papua New Guinea Coffee and Pricing for Papua New Guinea Coffee Beans

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Papua New Guinea: The Paradise of Coffee Cultivation

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

Kimel Estate: A Collective Coffee Paradise

While large plantations typically have their own washing stations, smaller individual coffee farmers can better control the quality and flavor expression of their output. Located in the Western Highlands' Waghi Valley near the Kimel River, Kimel Estate, like many large farms/estates, has its own dedicated washing station. However, it is actually an estate collectively owned by numerous independent small coffee farmers from the surrounding Opais ethnic group, making it, in a sense, a private cooperative. Due to excellent growing conditions and the processing station's stable quality control processes, the produced coffee exhibits vibrant brightness while retaining a considerable degree of Papua New Guinea coffee's unique flavor characteristics.

Brewing Guide and Unique Varietals

Hand-brewed Papua New Guinea: 15g of grounds, medium grind (using Fuji's ghost tooth grinder at setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First infusion with 30g water for a 27-second bloom, then inject to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops to half, then continue slow infusion until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Another special feature of Kimel is the diversity of coffee varieties it cultivates—so many they cannot 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 plant different varieties to avoid the risk of poor growth or disappointing production from any single variety, which also creates interesting expressions in their coffee's flavor characteristics.

Flavor Profile and Tasting Notes

This peaberry from Kimel Estate presents subtle spice notes on the palate, followed by sweet, refreshing flavors of nuts and sugarcane. It offers a creamy, smooth mouthfeel with an even more substantial texture characteristic of peaberries. The overall performance is balanced and smooth. The flavor is rich and the aroma pleasant, without any herbal or earthy notes. Its texture is as rich and mellow as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

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

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 Coffee

Now let me introduce PB, the full name being Peaberry, which we often call round beans. Usually, a coffee cherry contains two seeds—these are our common coffee beans, curved on one side and flat on the other, similar to peanut shape, which we call flat beans. Peaberries, however, occur when only one coffee bean develops inside a coffee cherry. The bean shape is oval, accounting for a very small proportion of the entire coffee tree's fruit. Peaberries are all selected manually, one by one, ensuring overall quality, so it's no surprise 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 aromas but without strong acidity. They are characterized by a silky smooth mouthfeel and wonderful aroma, with moderate acidity, making them a relatively rare coffee variety that combines high body with medium acidity.

Flavor Notes: Nuts, sugarcane, spices

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

Geography and Cultural Background

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania. In Malay, "Papua" means "curly hair." It is said that in 1545, explorer Ortiz de Retez reached the island and found that most of the islanders had curly hair, thus calling it "the island of curly-haired people," and the name has been passed down ever since. Papua New Guinea is east of Indonesia, with a typical island climate located between the equator and 10° south latitude. It has tropical rainforest volcanic rock and plateau terrain, with altitudes ranging from 1,200-2,500 meters, making it a paradise for coffee cultivation.

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 facilities. Coffee is the second largest agricultural export by volume in Papua New Guinea, demonstrating the importance of the coffee industry to the country's economy. Due to different coffee varieties than Indonesia, higher altitudes than Sumatra, and the use of washed processing, PNG coffee's regional flavor is quite different from Indonesia's heavy and earthy notes. Instead, it has brightness, sweet-sour balance, and floral and fruit aromas, similar to South American flavors.

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