Chimel Estate Single-Origin Coffee Bean Grading Standards, Flavor Profiles, Characteristics, and Cultivation History

Understanding Peaberry Coffee

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Today, we'd like to introduce PB, which stands for Peaberry—what we commonly call round beans. Typically, a coffee cherry contains two seeds, which are the common coffee beans we see—one side is curved and the other is flat, shaped like peanuts. We call these flat beans. Peaberries, however, occur when a coffee cherry contains only one bean. The bean is oval-shaped and accounts for a very small proportion of all fruits on a coffee tree. Peaberries are all selected one by one by hand, ensuring overall quality, so it's no surprise 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 aroma, with moderate acidity, making them a rare coffee variety that combines high body with medium acidity.

Brewing Method

Hand-poured 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, then pour to 105g and stop. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to halfway, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Flavor Profile

Flavor: Nuts, sugarcane, spices

The Rise of Papua New Guinea 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. Papua New Guinea coffee is characterized by full, well-formed beans, moderate acidity, and a fragrant, smooth mouthfeel.

Geographic and Environmental Context

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania. In Malay, "Papua" means "curly hair." Legend has it that in 1545, explorer Ortiz de Retez 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 east of Indonesia and has a standard island climate, located between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude. It features tropical rainforest, volcanic rock, and highland terrain, with elevations 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 and share processing facilities. Coffee is the second largest agricultural export by volume from Papua New Guinea, which speaks to the importance of the coffee industry to the country's economy. Due to different coffee varieties than Indonesia, higher elevations than Sumatra, and the use of washed processing, PNG coffee's regional flavor characteristics are quite different from Indonesia's mellow and deep flavors. Instead, it has brightness, sweet and sour notes, and floral and fruit aromas, similar to South American flavors.

Quality and Processing

Papua New Guinea boasts extraordinary, pristine natural environments with vast, 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.

Large plantations typically have their own washing stations, while smaller individual coffee farmers can better control the quality and flavor expression of their output. The 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—in a sense, it's a private cooperative. Due to excellent growing conditions and the processing plant's stable quality control processes, the resulting coffee has vibrant brightness while preserving a considerable degree of Papua New Guinea coffee's unique flavor characteristics.

Unique Cultivation Practices

Another special feature of Kimel is the diversity of coffee varieties cultivated—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 wouldn'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 any particular variety. This also creates interesting expressions of their coffee's flavor characteristics.

Tasting Notes

This Kimel Estate Peaberry offers subtle spice notes on the palate, followed by sweet and refreshing nutty and sugarcane flavors, with a creamy, smooth lactose sensation. The Peaberry's mouthfeel is more solid, with an overall balanced and smooth performance. The flavor is rich, the aroma is pleasant, with no herbal or earthy notes. Its texture is as intense and rich as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: 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

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

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