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FrontStreet Coffee's Introduction to Jamaican Blue Mountain and Colombian Isabella Coffee Varieties

Typica

Typica is the oldest native variety from Ethiopia, grown in southeastern Ethiopia and Sudan. All Arabica varieties are derived from Typica. It features elegant flavors but has weak physical constitution, poor disease resistance, and low fruit yield. Premium estate beans such as Jamaican Blue Mountain, Sumatran Mandheling, and Hawaiian Kona all belong to the Typica variety. Typica has bronze-colored top leaves, earning it the name "red-topped coffee," and belongs to the Arabica species.

The coffee tree's opposite leaves are long and elliptical with smooth surfaces. The terminal branches are long with few side branches, while the flowers are white, blooming at the base where the petiole connects to the branch. Mature coffee cherries resemble cherries in appearance, displaying bright red color with sweet flesh, containing a pair of seeds - what we know as coffee beans.

Typica is one of the oldest native varieties from Ethiopia. Typica has bronze-colored top leaves, and the beans are elliptical or slender and pointed in shape. It features elegant flavors but has weak physical constitution, poor disease resistance, and low fruit yield.

Typica is one of the oldest discovered varieties of Arabica coffee trees, with another being Bourbon. Arabica originates from Ethiopia, where this species still naturally grows in the local pristine rainforest highlands today. The Typica planted in Java was a gift from the Dutch to Louis XIV of France, survived in the Persian garden, and its seeds were brought to the French colony of Martinique in 1720.

Typica beans are slender and elongated, with tall trees and elliptical fruits. The branches are slightly inclined. Typica's four limbs are slender, forming an expanded posture with an inclination angle of 50-70 degrees. Each tree yields very low coffee production, but the cupping scores are very high.

Colombian Isabella

Pink Bourbon was first planted in the Huila region. Initially, it was mixed with other Bourbon and Caturra varieties, before being separately picked and processed. When mature, the coffee cherries display a romantic pink color. However, maintaining this pink color is extremely difficult because the final color of coffee cherries is determined by recessive genes within the pollen grains. Among the hybridized pollen grains, there are both yellow genes tending toward Yellow Bourbon and red genes tending toward Red Bourbon, all of which are recessive genes that easily interfere with each other, making Pink Bourbon an extremely rare variety.

The rare Pink Bourbon also performs exceptionally in the cup. Unlike the relatively flat flavor profile of typical Bourbon, this Pink Bourbon possesses fresh floral aromas, juice-like sweetness of blueberries and green grapes, cherry notes in the mid-palate, and brown sugar-like sweetness in the finish. In terms of acidity, it presents more complex citrus and berry fruit characteristics.

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