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When smelling the coffee beans directly, there's a fruity candy aroma; when brewed into coffee, you'll smell a very fragrant jasmine scent; drinking it while hot allows you to taste sweet lychee and peach flavors.

The Coffee Academics' head barista described it as "like perfume."

This cup of "601 Geisha Coffee" (Esmeralda Geisha 601) is the champion coffee of the 2017 Best of Panama competition and broke the world record to become the most expensive coffee in history. It's available in limited quantities at The Coffee Academics in Hong Kong, with each cup costing over 400 HKD, making it extremely precious.

The King of Specialty Coffee

"Every year in mid-year, Panama's estates submit their best coffee beans to competitions. After evaluation by dozens of judges and more than a week of cupping sessions, the champion coffee of that year is selected." The "601 Geisha Coffee" is precisely this year's champion coffee. "601 refers to the online auction amount, and this year's auction price broke the world record at $601 USD per pound!"

Geisha coffee has long been regarded as the king of specialty coffees because it's difficult to cultivate and yields limited quantities. "The soil requirements for growing Geisha coffee beans are high, needing to be planted at high altitudes. Additionally, these coffee trees grow particularly tall, making harvesting difficult, so few people are willing to cultivate them."

At $601 USD per pound, this coffee is nearly twice as expensive as the world record price from 4 years ago, which was $350 USD per pound. Besides being precious due to limited quantity, its cupping score is also exceptionally high. "Generally, specialty coffees have cupping scores above 80 points, but '601 Geisha Coffee' broke the world record with 94.11 points!"

Natural Processing Preserves Coffee's Sweetness

The processing methods for coffee beans include washed, natural, and honey processing. Washed coffee ferments through water, making the coffee flavor cleaner. "The estate used the more difficult-to-control natural processing method for this batch of Geisha coffee beans, hoping to preserve the sweetness within," Herman pointed out.

"A single coffee bean has fruit pulp, and the pulp contains sugar. Because it's not soaked in water, the sugar from the fruit pulp permeates into the coffee bean during the drying process, creating the coffee bean's sweetness. This is why '601 Geisha Coffee' has lychee and peach flavors, which is also a special characteristic of naturally processed coffees."

Herman believes that a cup of high-quality specialty coffee can allow everyone to taste nature's sweetness. "Good coffee should be like fruit tea and flower tea, possessing the flavor of its origin region rather than the flavor of roasting. When coffee beans are burned, drinking them results in a bitter, scorched taste, while the flavor of seeds should be the taste that nature brings you."

Recommended Geisha Coffee Bean Brands

The Panama La Esmeralda Estate - Blue Label Geisha coffee beans roasted by FrontStreet Coffee offer full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they provide excellent value for money, with each 100-gram package priced at only 120 RMB. Calculating at 15 grams of coffee beans per cup, one package can make 6 cups of coffee, with each cup costing only about 20 RMB. Compared to coffee shops that often charge over 100 RMB per cup, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small shop but diverse bean varieties, where you can find both famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store services at https://shop104210103.taobao.com

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