Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate Single Origin Coffee Bean Grading, Pricing, Green Beans and Roasting Profile

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Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate Single Origin Bean Grading, Price, Green Beans and Roasting Profile

Kimel Estate was established in 1974 by Australian-born businessman Bobby Gibbs, named after the adjacent river (Kimel River). The estate currently employs 432 people, primarily from the Opais tribe, who live on the premises. Although the owner is foreign, coffee production and estate management are handled by local farmers. The estate also provides comprehensive educational facilities and medical infrastructure. Coffee trees on the estate are grown under shade cultivation, which helps regulate temperature and reduce excessive sunlight. Local farmers also adopt environmentally friendly practices during production, such as water resource recycling and using remaining berries as fertilizer. The estate cultivates numerous varieties, from traditional Typica and Bourbon to rare Blue Mountain varieties, making the coffee produced here more resistant to various diseases, pests, and natural disasters while stabilizing quality and bringing more elements to coffee flavor.

Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate Peaberry

Region: Waghi Valley

Producer: Kimel Estate

Grade: PB

Varieties: Arusha, Blue Mountain, Catimor, Caturra, Mundo Novo, Typica

Altitude: 1500 meters

Processing Method: Washed

Kimel Estate is located in the Waghi Valley of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, near the Kimel River Valley, and has its own dedicated wet mill. In fact, this is an estate jointly owned by many independent small coffee farmers from the surrounding Opais ethnic group. Washed Papua New Guinea coffee always has brighter acidity and more fruit expression. Peaberry beans have an even smoother mouthfeel and nutty aroma.

Product Name: Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate Peaberry Cupping Score 92

(Papua New Guinea Kimel PB)

Region: Wahgi Valley, Goroka Highlands, Western Region, near Mt. Hagen mountains

Producer: Kimel Estate

Varieties: Arusha, Blue Mountain, Catimor, Caturra, Mundo Novo, Typica

Grade: Peaberry

Altitude: 1500 meters

Processing: Traditional wet processing

Harvest Period: April to September

Flavor Characteristics: Spicy notes, nuts, refreshing sugarcane sweetness, creamy smooth texture

Soft and smooth, sweet and pleasant, with distinct layers of fruit acidity and a sweet aftertaste.

Introduction

Papua New Guinea coffee was first introduced by Dutch sailors in the late 18th century, cultivated in the Rigo area in 1892. By 1908, Papua New Guinea had 180 acres of land planted with coffee. By 1970, Papua New Guinea could produce 460,000 bags of coffee. Today, Papua New Guinea's annual coffee production has reached 900,000 to 1.2 million bags. Papua New Guinea is mainly divided into four provinces, including Eastern Highlands, Momase, New Guinea Islands, and Southern. Papua New Guinea is located east of the Indonesian archipelago, with terrain dominated by highlands, coexisting with both large estates/farms and small-scale cultivation patterns, growing multiple coffee varieties.

Papua New Guinea coffee flavors are quite different from other Asian regions such as Indonesia, South Asia India, or Pacific island coffees. Compared to Indonesian beans (Sumatra, Sulawesi) that are mostly semi-washed (wet hulling processed) and show low acidity, rich body, and earthy notes, washed Papua New Guinea coffee always has brighter acidity and more fruit expression, similar to Central American coffee flavors.

Kimel Estate was founded by Australian Bobby Gibbs in 1974, located in the Wahgi Valley of the Goroka Highlands in the Western Region, near Mt. Hagen mountains. The land tenants are the indigenous Opais people, operating as a cooperative-based estate. The estate covers 620 hectares and employs 432 people, establishing schools and medical centers to care for employees and their families nearby. Due to fertile volcanic soil, cold highland microclimate, lush primitive forests, shade cultivation using Albizias and Grevilleas trees, excellent management practices, and environmentally friendly growing methods that maintain natural ecosystems, using organic fertilization and recycled water treatment for irrigation reuse. Due to quality control and effective management, Kimel Estate coffee has become one of Papua New Guinea's best-known coffees.

This batch is Kimel Estate Peaberry washed coffee, with an altitude of 1500 meters. One of the varieties comes from Typica seedlings introduced to Jamaica's Blue Mountain region in 1957, crossing oceans to be planted on this land. The location in the optimal coffee growing belt provides good climate and soil for these seedlings, creating unique conditions for excellent coffee production quality. Flavor characteristics: Spicy notes, nuts, refreshing sugarcane sweetness, creamy smooth texture, soft and smooth, sweet and pleasant, with distinct layers of fruit acidity and a sweet aftertaste.

Papua New Guinea. Wahgi Valley. Kimel Estate AA

Papua New Guinea Wahgi Valley Kimel AA

Local production is not large, with about 85% of total coffee production coming from smallholder garden cultivation systems. Small farmers join local cooperatives to share processing equipment. 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 altitude than Sumatra, and washed processing, PNG coffee's regional taste is completely different from Indonesia's muffled and low-profile flavors, instead having brightness, sweet and sour characteristics, and floral and fruit aromas, similar to South American flavors.

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

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

Hand-brewed Papua New Guinea

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

Another special feature is the diversity of coffee varieties cultivated at Kimel, so many that you can't count them on one hand: Typica, Arusha, Blue Mountain, Mundo Novo, Catimor, Caturra... and even more. In fact, just as you wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, most farmers actually plant different varieties to avoid the risk of poor adaptation or production below expectations for a specific variety, which also creates interesting expressions in their coffee flavor characteristics.

This peaberry from Kimel Estate will have some spicy notes in the mouth, with nutty and sugarcane sweetness and refreshing flavors upon entry, like a creamy smooth texture. The peaberry's mouthfeel is more solid, with overall balanced and smooth performance. Rich flavor, pleasant aroma, without herbal or earthy notes, its texture is as rich and mellow as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop

Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qian 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

About Peaberry

Now let me introduce PB, the full name Peaberry, which we often call round beans. 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, which we call flat beans. Peaberries, however, are coffee cherries that contain only one coffee bean, with an oval shape. They account for a very 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 good.

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. 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.

Flavor: Nuts, sugarcane, spices

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

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 this 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, featuring tropical rainforest, volcanic rock, and plateau terrain, with altitudes between 1200-2500 meters, making it a paradise for coffee cultivation.

Papua New Guinea Kimel Estate

□ Region: Wahgi Valley

□ Producer: Kimel Estate

□ Altitude: 1580 meters

□ Varieties: Arusha, Blue Mountain, Catimor, Caturra, Mundo Novo, Typica

□ Processing: Traditional washed processing

□ Grade: AA

□ Soil: Well-drained volcanic geology

□ Harvest Period: March - April

□ Flavor Notes: Caramel, creamy bread, sugarcane juice sweetness, grapefruit acidity, candied jujube flavor

□ Papua New Guinea is east of Indonesia, with a standard island climate, located between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude, featuring tropical rainforest, volcanic rock, and plateau terrain, with altitudes between 1,200-2,500 meters, making it a paradise for coffee cultivation. Local production is not large, with 85% of total production coming from smallholder garden cultivation systems. They join local cooperatives to share processing equipment. Coffee is the second largest agricultural export by volume in Papua New Guinea, demonstrating the importance of the coffee industry to the country. Due to different coffee varieties than Indonesia, higher altitude than Sumatra, and washed processing, Papua New Guinea coffee's regional taste is completely different from Indonesia's muffled and low-profile flavors, instead having brightness, sweet and sour characteristics, and floral and fruit aromas.

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