Tea & Coffee 04/03 - Coffee With Aloha Spirit: The 32nd Annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival (#)
„The first coffee seedlings to reach Hawaii arrived in Honolulu in 1813. In 1828 an American missionary transplanted a Coffea arabica cutting to Kona, leading to the establishment of this western coastal area’s first farms. The first coffee laborers on the island were from China, but after they fulfilled the labor contracts to which they had been committed, many immediately left their jobs for urban centers, or started their own farms. Then, says Sheree Chase, curator, Kona Historical Society, “there was a push by land owners to recruit American and Europeans to take up the coffee land during a short boom around 1870s.“
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„The coffee plant is a woody perennial evergreen that belongs to the Rubiaceae family. Two main species are cultivated today. Coffea arabica known as Arabica coffee accounts for 75-80% of the world's production. Coffea canephora, known as Robusta coffee, is more resilient plant than the Arabica shrubs, but produces an inferior tasting beverage. The coffee plant can grow to heights of 10 meters if not pruned, but producing countries maintain coffee at three meters to ease picking. Each hectare of coffee produces 86 lbs of oxygen per day, which is about half the production of the same area in a rain forest.“
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„ Fine, high-grown Latin American coffee is often described as mild. It is also a coffee trade term for any Arabica coffee other than those from Brazil.“
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„One of the most interesting is the purple coffee (!), coffea stenophyla! The long narrow leaf is also very unusual compared to c. arabica and c.“
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„Coffee aficionados often assume that coffees from various origins taste different purely because they are grown in different climates and soils or produced by different botanical varieties of Coffea arabica.“
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Cafe´ de Colombia - COFFEE BEANS
„Coffea Arabica commonly called Arabica, are considered the highest quality beans and therefore are usually more expensive. They grow best in high altitudes and produce a very flavorful and aromatic coffee, low in caffeine and acidity. In Colombia, Arabica is exclusively grown. Coffea Robusta or canephora is commonly called Robusta.“
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