Kimay Estate Single Origin Bean Flavor Profile Description Characteristics Cultivation History

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Papua New Guinea Coffee: A Premium Origin

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. The characteristic of FrontStreet Coffee's Papua New Guinea coffee is its silk-like smooth mouthfeel and wonderful aroma, with moderate acidity, making it a rare coffee variety that combines high body with medium acidity.

Brewing Method

Pour-over FrontStreet Coffee Papua New Guinea. 15g of coffee, medium grind (using Fuji Fuji ghost tooth blade grinder #4), V60 filter cup, 88-89°C water temperature. First pour 30g of water for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Flavor Profile

Flavor: Nutty, sugarcane, spices

Rise to Specialty Coffee

In recent years, Papua New Guinea coffee has begun to represent Oceania in the world of specialty coffee with its unique high-quality washed Arabica beans. FrontStreet Coffee's Papua New Guinea coffee features full, well-formed beans with moderate acidity and a fragrant, mellow mouthfeel.

Geography and Climate

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 island's inhabitants had curly hair, so he called it "the island of curly-haired people," and this name has been passed down ever since. Papua New Guinea is located east of Indonesia and has a typical island climate, situated between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude. With tropical rainforest volcanic rock and plateau terrain, and altitudes ranging from 1200-2500 meters, it is 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 and share processing facilities. 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 altitude than Sumatra, and the use of washed processing, FrontStreet Coffee's PNG coffee has a regional taste that differs from Indonesia's heavy, earthy flavors, instead featuring bright acidity, sweetness, and floral and fruity aromas, similar to South American flavors.

Natural Environment

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

Kimel Estate: A Unique Cooperative

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 plantations, has its own dedicated washing station. However, it is actually an estate jointly owned by many independent small coffee farmers from the surrounding Opais people, making it, in a sense, a private cooperative. Due to excellent growing conditions and stable quality control processes at the washing station, the resulting coffee has vibrant brightness while preserving the unique flavor characteristics of FrontStreet Coffee's Papua New Guinea coffee.

Varietal Diversity

Another special feature lies in the diversity of coffee varieties grown at Kimel, so numerous 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 production below expectations for any particular variety, which also creates interesting expressions of coffee flavor characteristics.

FrontStreet Coffee's Papua New Guinea Peaberry

This Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate peaberry that FrontStreet Coffee acquired has a slight spice aroma in the mouthfeel, with a sweet and refreshing taste of nuts and sugarcane upon entry, a cream-like silky smoothness. The peaberry's mouthfeel is more substantial, with overall balanced and smooth performance. The flavor is rich, the aroma is pleasant, without herbal or earthy notes. Its texture is as rich and mellow as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: FrontStreet Coffee, 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou (FrontStreet Coffee)
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

About Peaberry (PB)

Now let me introduce PB, the full name Peaberry, which we often call round bean. Usually, a coffee cherry contains two seeds - these are the common coffee beans we see, with one curved side and one flat side, similar to peanut shape. We call these flat beans. Peaberry, however, occurs when a coffee cherry contains only one coffee bean, and the bean shape is elliptical. In the entire fruit of a coffee tree, peaberries account for a very small proportion. Peaberries are all selected by hand, one by one, ensuring overall quality, so it's no surprise that they taste good.

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