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21 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Tirria
Good morning!! I am a great coffee lover. I have always liked the smell of fresh homemade coffee for as long as I can remember. Although my first direct contact with this infusion was quite late ... it was when I finished my studies and entered the...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Villa Sarchi Like Caturra, and Pacas, Villa Sarchi is a dwarf Bourbon mutant variety that exhibits a short stature and densely packed internodes as the result of a single-gene mutation. The compact shape and sturdy branches of this cultivar make it p...
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Pacas Pacas is a natural mutant varietal of the Bourbon lineage that was originally discovered on farmland owned by the Pacas family located in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador in 1949. Just over a decade later, in 1960, the Salvadoran Institute f...
16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Timor Hybrid Also known as "Tim Tim" throughout Latin America, the Timor Hybrid is a genetically unique and historically significant coffee variety discovered on the Island of Timor in 1920. As the first waves of coffee leaf rust virus began to sweep...
16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Maragogipe The Maragogipe coffee variety is believed to be a natural mutant variety of Typica that was discovered outside the municipality of Maragogipe, Bahia, Brazil in 1870. Maragogipe is sometimes referred to as the "elephant bean" variety as a...
13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Java Owing its name to the Indonesian island of Java, the variety was first introduced to the region by Dutch botonist, P. J. S. Cramer in 1928. Selected from an Ethiopian landrace known as Abysinia, the descendants of these trees would go on to be i...
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Kona With a steady stream of moist, tropical air supplied from the Pacific Ocean, the cloud forests than span the western volcanic slopes of the Island of Hawaii produce unique soil and microclimate conditions that many consider to be produce the fin...
10 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Mocha While come may associate the term 'mocha' with the espresso drink made with heated milk and chocolate, the Mocha coffee variety derives its name from the legendary port city of Mokha, Yemen, from which the international coffee trade began to fl...
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Harar The city of Harar, Ethiopia has been famous for its coffee since at least the 16th century; it is even rumored by some to be the former home of the legendary goat herder, Kaldi, who discovered the stimulating power of coffee after his goats ref...
8 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Yirgacheffe Yirgacheffe is a small district located at an elevation of around 1,900 meters above sea level within the Gedeo Zone of the southwestern Ethiopian highlands. High elevation, rich soils, and the thick vegetative cover that dominates the re...
