Legend of a goat shepherd named Khalid in Kaffa in Ethiopia there, who found the goat suddenly became excited, passionate after chewing red fruit that resemble a cluster of cherry, believed to be the starting point where coffee originated. Qahwah production centers around the 1000 - 1500 years ago in the port city of Mocha in Yemen, then a word qahve absorption by the Turks who serves as a beverage to guests of the Italian merchants. The Italian merchant is then brought Caffe (word qahve absorbed) into mainland Europe and began to spread around the world into a magical drink a lot of people crazy. More often people (in Indonesia) only 2 are known coffee, instant coffee and instant coffee and is also known arabica coffee and robusta coffee. Coffee there are 4 species of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica), robusta coffee (Coffea canephora), liberica coffee (Coffea liberica) and excelsa coffee (Coffea dewevrei). The 2 latter is rarely heard let alone seen. I myself have never seen the appearance of 2 types of coffee that last one.
It is said that coffee liberica a "best of the best" of all coffee in the world. Unfortunately liberica coffee is very small volumes circulating in the world. Miraculously, this liberica coffee plants including forest plants and numerous in the interior of Borneo there and have a drink centuries old traditional Dayak tribes there. Liberica trees can reach a height of 30 m, and liberica coffee beans are coffee beans with the largest size in the world. If excelsa coffee, unfortunately I do not have enough references to storytelling.
Coffee circulating in the world in general is divided into 70% Arabica and 30% Robusta. We should be proud that Indonesia is the best Arabica coffee producer in the world, though not the world's largest producer of Arabica. Arabica itself is subdivided into 2, namely commercial and specialty arabica arabica. Commercial arabica arabica is the 'market', which although higher than robusta grade'nya, but do not have a specific taste that is unique. While specialty arabica is produced by the Indonesian ONLY.
Commercial arabica dominate the world with 63%, which is mainly produced in Columbia and Brazil. While specialty arabica fill only 7%. There are 7 kinds of arabica coffee, 6 of them produced by Indonesia, and only 1 is produced by a very famous Jamaica Blue Mountain name. The original Blue Mountain coffee is quite expensive, solid and tasty. The 6 types of Indonesian arabica coffee is: Gayo in Aceh, North Sumatra Mandheling, Java in Java (especially East Java), Kintamani Bali, Toraja in Sulawesi and Mangkuraja new types from Bengkulu. Toraja itself is often also called Kalosi Toraja, Mandheling is sometimes written with Mandailing. There are also people who classify Gayo and become one of Sumatra Mandheling Coffee, such as the classification made by Starbucks.
Coffee Luwak Actually there is one kind of another very, very specific and very expensive, ie Luwak coffee. Although there are many among the cynical and argue that this civet coffee alone is a myth, but in reality civet coffee is coffee only the most exotic and rare in the world. Civet coffee producing only the most powerful of Indonesia and Philippines. In Indonesia, still less with the Philippines that has begun to pursue and try to breed this mongoose, and lots of specialists who have special knowledge to track the presence of mongoose in the mountains. Luwak coffee is produced by an animal that ate a type of civet coffee (coffee cherries) that really mature trees, and remove the dirt with coffee beans that are still intact in the midst of droppings scattered across a coffee plantation in the mountains. Coffee beans are not digested and come out with the dirt they have been experiencing a natural process in the animal's digestive system, which is equivalent to fermentation and roasting high-class special. It is said that it was very unique, exorbitant and addictive. Unfortunately the price is not addictive at all, but just the opposite, that is scary. The price per kilogram of coffee is around Rp. 2 million depending on quality. If you want to enjoy this coffee so thick pocket to spend, while the mediocre berkocek be advised to purchase only coffee that is ready for consumption, grounded, with the level of roasting medium roast or dark roast. Coffee brand is similar to the name of the legendary beast before, and according to the brand owner, genuine Luwak coffee mix 3%. It is steady and the other once.
Arabica and Robusta Arabica coffee can only grow at an altitude of about 800 - 1000 m dpal, while a close relative, robusta grows at an altitude below that. If arabica grows less than 800 m dpal, feared the coffee plants are not resistant to diseases of coffee, while its name is one more type is more robust than the diseases ndableg aka coffee, so called robusta. Arabica itself clearly refers to the place where the origins of this drink originated. Indonesia's robusta crop are mostly relics of the Dutch colonial era. Uniquely, arabica coffee is grown in one area if planted in other areas tested, will change flavor, taste and uniqueness. For example Gayo coffee brought to Sulawesi, Toraja or coffee brought to Java, planted in places that were not their natural habitat, their crops will not be the same again with its parent. Regardless of planting system that arabica coffee was going to change its characteristics in accordance with the planting. Robusta in Indonesia widely planted in southern Sumatra, including Lampung and surrounding areas, and also in Java. Indonesia produces enough coffee and one of the world's most important suppliers.
Now what about instant coffee? The nature of the coffee that is ground is not soluble in water, so for practicality think one way to keep the enjoyment of coffee as well as practical. In 1901, an American citizen of Japanese descent, Satori Kato find freeze-dried coffee that became the forerunners of instant coffee. In the year 1906 an English chemist George Constant Washington, who lives in Guatemala, found a method for large-scale production of instant coffee. It was only in 1938 commercialized in instant coffee by Nescafe industrial scale.
Majority consisting of instant coffee mixed with arabica robusta with a different composition of each brand and type on the market. Arabica win in aroma, flavor and taste, but left a sour taste in the tip of the tongue after sipping a double-shot espresso. While Robusta has the advantage of the so-called "body" a strong and delicious. Body here can also be referred to as 'after-taste' that is feeling left on your tongue after the last drop dicecap. Taste, odor and a pleasant aroma of coffee will stay a little longer and there is no trace of sourness. Each of excellence that is tested in combination with blending into 2 types according to composition and tsb 'potion' in accordance with the recipes of each brand.
by agus Sudibyo in / on November 16, 2010.
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