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Red Bourbon

In typical coffee trees, after flowering and fruiting, the color transformation of coffee cherries follows this pattern: green → light yellow → light orange → mature red → darker red when fully ripe. This is why some people call it "Red Bourbon variety." In fact, Red Bourbon is what we generally refer to as the Bourbon variety. Bourbon grown at high altitudes typically has better aroma and brighter acidity, sometimes even presenting wine-like flavors when tasted.

Yellow Bourbon

Yellow Bourbon is a hybrid of Bourbon with other varieties. Due to its lower yield and poor resistance to wind and rain, it has not been widely cultivated. However, when grown at high altitudes, it demonstrates excellent flavor characteristics and has become more common in recent years. Yellow Bourbon, as its name suggests, produces yellow cherries when ripe and was first discovered in Brazil, where it remains primarily cultivated today. It's generally believed to have resulted from a mutation after crossbreeding red-fruited Bourbon with a yellow-fruited Typica variant called "Amerelo de Botocatu."

FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Queen Estate Semi-Washed Yellow Bourbon

Flavor characteristics: Sweet and smooth fruit sweetness, distinct nutty flavors, balanced and gentle acidity, clean and subtle bitterness, rich chocolate aroma and nutty flavors, bright and refreshing mouthfeel.

Pink Bourbon

As the name suggests, Pink Bourbon produces romantic pink cherries when ripe. It belongs to an extremely rare new variety, cultivated by crossing Red Bourbon and Yellow Bourbon. The reason Pink Bourbon is considered rare is primarily because maintaining this beautiful pink color is exceptionally difficult. Sometimes orange Bourbon cherries are harvested because the final color of coffee cherries is determined by recessive genes within the pollen grains. Among the selected pollen grains for hybridization, there are both yellow genes tending toward Yellow Bourbon and red genes tending toward Red Bourbon, all of which are recessive genes that can easily interfere with each other.

Currently, Pink Bourbon can be found in Colombia and Guatemala. Taking this batch of Colombian Pink Bourbon as an example, there are approximately 1,800 coffee trees. Each tree yields about 1.8kg of fresh cherries per harvest season. After pulp removal processing, this results in about 0.36kg of coffee beans. During a normal harvest season, this batch of coffee produces less than 650kg.

FrontStreet Coffee Colombia Pink Bourbon

Flavor characteristics: Sweet orange, sugarcane sweetness, pleasant juicy mouthfeel, cherry tomato

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