Arabica coffee beans along with Robusta coffee beans are two popular varieties of coffee beans and are used mainly for coffee making today. In Vietnam, there are also varieties of Arabica coffee beans planted and harvested in some major coffee growing regions with very high quality; even comparable to the quality of the best Arabica coffee in the world today.
1. Learn about Arabica coffee beans
Arabica coffee is very popular with connoisseurs, so this coffee variety is also a main ingredient in coffee shops. It captivates coffee lovers thanks to its elegant, noble scent, the aroma of fruits, the smell of honey, the smell of toast, the smell of the field of lunch friends.
Arabica coffee taste is delicate, smooth with a slight bitterness mixed with a bit of sourness on the tip of the tongue without ripples; light brown coffee water with amber crab color. Just that much is enough to make the souls who love coffee and enjoy trendy tastes conquered.
Arabica Coffee Beans
Arabica coffee beans in Vietnam today are also very diverse in types with some popular varieties including typica, bourbon, catuai and catimor. Each of these coffee beans will give a different aroma and taste. Along with a number of factors that influence how they grown and harvested with different yields and yields. To better understand the types of high-quality arabica coffee beans; as well as how to distinguish and choose genuine and standard products; please continue to follow the following article.
2. High quality Arabica coffee beans in Vietnam
2.1. Catimor Varieties
A little bit about arabica coffee beans, arabica is a slightly long bean and is grown in places with an altitude of about 600m, cool climate. In Vietnam, Arabica coffee grows a lot in the areas of Lam Dong, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Tri, Nghe An, Hoa Binh, Dien Bien, and Da Lat.
Catimor is a hybrid coffee variety with the characteristics of easy to grow, high yield and good resistance to pests and diseases, so it grown as an alternative to Bourbon and Typica strains due to poor productivity and more difficult to grow. Catimor is a coffee variety that bred from two varieties of Caturra and Timor (Timor is a cross between robusta and arabica) and originated in Portugal.
Because of the above-mentioned beneficial economic characteristics, this coffee strain now grown popularly in most of the major coffee material regions across the country such as Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Quang Tri, Nghe An, Son La.
Catimor coffee beans after roasting
However, the limitations on the characteristics of this coffee bean give the drinking water quality is not high, the beans are small and gourd, so it will certainly not be able to satisfy the requirements of discerning coffee drinkers and coffee lovers. High quality Arabica coffee.
2.2. Typica coffee strain
Typica is one of two especially delicious coffee lines in Vietnam and is grown mainly in Cau Dat district including 2 communes Xuan Truong and Tram Hanh. The Typica beans here have excellent taste, but they have some unfavorable characteristics for growers such as low yield and high selling price.
During 2001, when coffee prices fell and hit the lowest level; people abandoned and cut down a series of typica to grow catimor instead. The influence of market fluctuations caused the output to gradually shrink and typica gradually replaced by the Catimor strain for export with a yield of 2-3 times higher. The current production of Typica coffee per year is only 2.5 to 3 tons, very little compared to the average output of the coffee industry.
2.3. Bourbon coffee strain
This is the line of Arabica coffee beans with the best taste today and considers to be of equal quality to the world famous delicious coffee Arabica Bourbon, ie Moka coffee. This Arabica Bourbon variety grown and developed in Xuan Tho and Xuan Truong communes in Cau Dat area, Da Lat.
About the history of formation, the reason this coffee strain also called moka is because it discovered from the port of Mocha, Yemen in the 13th century. After that, this coffee variety traded to Bourbon island, a small island. French, bred and developed by the French.
This coffee variety introduced to Vietnam by the French in 1975; harvested and born with a famous coffee brand called “Arabica du Tonkin”. At that time, this type of coffee only served to the aristocracy; the luxurious upper class because of its noble, elegant and premium taste.
Arabica Bourbon coffee beans have a mild sour taste with wine smell, sweet aftertaste and Bourbon variety grown in Cau Dat is known as the queen of coffees thanks to its captivating aroma full of nostalgia and smooth taste on the surface. tongue. The subtlety and complexity of Arabica Bourbon’s flavor has fascinated coffee connoisseurs.
Arabica Bourbon coffee beans after roasting
2.4. Catuai coffee strain
Catuai coffee also known as golden bean coffee with a round coffee bean; that resembles the kernel of Catimor coffee beans. This is also a line of coffee beans that bred from many different varieties; and introduced from Cuba to Vietnam in the 1980s. Catuai variety bred from Caturra coffee beans (named after a town in Brazil); a variant of Bourbon (pure Arabica) with Mundo Novo coffee line (a cross between two pure Arabica lines, Bourbon and Typica).
This coffee strain inherits genetic characteristics from the original Caturra hybrid; so its resistance to pests and diseases is very poor. Despite the high yield, the overall yield of this coffee strain is not high and requires a lot of care.
Due to such characteristics, this coffee strain no longer maintained; but only a few gardens and people harvest mixed with Catimor for sale. The kernel of cactuai is round like catimor; but the occurrence rate of long beans is higher in these growing regions; because there may not be homogeneity of varieties grown.
In today’s market in terms of quality assessment; arabica rated higher than coffea canephora or coffea robusta with higher taste and quality and contains less coffee. However, despite being the second largest coffee exporter in the world; the size and production of Arabica only accounts for about 10% of the total area of raw materials in Vietnam.
The reason said to be that the altitude of the growing areas in Vietnam is not suitable for this type of coffee; while the care is not easy to produce high economic value. Currently, the State is still expanding many research programs to breed new varieties with both high quality; and high yield to meet the demand for this coffee variety.
Hopefully, the above information has partly helped you to add more knowledge about coffee; understand more about each coffee line on the market and become a connoisseur coffee drinker, savvy consumer.
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