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Changing Perspectives on Yunnan Coffee

"I started making coffee because I felt the market was unfair to Yunnan coffee. I saw how hard my father and others worked." This is what Mei Zi said that left the deepest impression on me.

Perhaps due to excessive focus on bulk commodity prices in the past, coffee processing and quality were overlooked, leaving many enthusiasts and baristas with a negative impression of Yunnan coffee. The Yunnan coffee market has formed a vicious cycle of low domestic consumption and price suppression by purchasers.

Some coffee farmers have already begun to cut down coffee trees and switch to other crops due to extremely low purchase prices, forced by survival needs.

Lin Jianliang, editor-in-chief of Coffee Salon, said: "The international coffee market uses Brazilian beans as the baseline for minimum purchase prices, but Yunnan beans are priced even lower than Brazilian beans."

Therefore, to break through the current situation of price suppression, a new generation of Yunnan specialty coffee growers like Mei Zi are trying to step out, hoping to let more coffee practitioners such as cafés and baristas understand "Yunnan specialty coffee."

Unlike the previous generation's approach of "just growing coffee and selling it to purchasers," they take their coffee to visit various places. Besides promoting their own coffee, they also learn the latest processing methods, understand consumer taste preferences, and gather feedback from baristas.

Thanks to the efforts of all parties, Yunnan's specialty coffee has gradually begun to appear in our视野, and its quality is indeed slowly improving.

"As long as customers don't know it's Yunnan beans, they won't 'label' this coffee. After they finish drinking, I tell them it's Yunnan coffee, and they're always surprised that it's actually Yunnan beans." This is the experience of café owner Muzi.

The refinement of Yunnan coffee is still in its early stages, but perhaps we can view it with a more positive attitude. After all, specialty coffee cannot be achieved overnight.

Yes, perhaps when we can accept Yunnan coffee; perhaps when half or even most cafés are willing to use Yunnan beans, our own coffee will no longer be treated unfairly.

So, are you willing to remove the "label" from Yunnan coffee and give them another chance?

Yunnan Coffee Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted Typica Yunnan coffee beans - [Yunnan Huaguoshan Coffee] - offer full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they offer exceptional value for money. A half-pound (227g) package costs only around 60 yuan. Calculating at 15g per cup, one package can make 15 cups, with each cup costing only about 4 yuan. Compared to cafés selling cups for dozens of yuan, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

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