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Sí, señores, soy una gorda. Podemos usar términos más poéticos, como rolliza, rechoncha, robusta, frondosa…, pero después de todos estos años de gordura, finalmente me siento cómoda diciéndolo de la manera más clara y simple. Gorda. Gorda y ya.
B de Bella -Alberto Ferreras
Robusta hay còn gọi là cf vối, arabica còn gọi là cf chè. Dòng arabica còn chia ra 2 loại: Moka và Catimor. Moka là dòng thuần chủng của arabica còn catimor là dc lai tạo. VN mình có vùng Cầu Đất của Đà Lạt trồng arabica ngon nhất vì thoả mãn 2 yếu tố quyết định: Độ cao trên 1000m và nằm ở cùng vĩ tuyến với Yemen, nguồn gốc của loại arabica này.
Còn cf vối (robusta) thì Daklak trồng nhiều nhất.
Thường ng ta hay pha 2 loại với nhau để uống chứ ít khi uống 1 loại.
Arabica khi rang lên pha ra nước có màu nâu đỏ cánh 🪳 rất đẹp, vị nó chua lúc đầu, sau đó ngọt về sau, nhẹ (nhạt) nên phương Tây họ chuộng vì họ uống cả cốc to.
Cà phê Rô thì khác, nó nặng hơn nhiều, đắng chát hơn một chút, người Việt xưa đặc biệt là vùng núi như Đắc Lắc, Gia Lai hay Lâm Đồng thường uống nóng và pha đặc, ngày xưa thời tiết lạnh nên thậm chí còn để nước nóng bên ngoài ly cà phê, thực chất chả có tác dụng gì vì nước nóng và cà phê pha phin đều nguội cùng lúc :)
Ngoài lề tí:
Ít người biết nền nông nghiệp cà phê ở VN là do.. Đức vực dậy. Lúc đó thời kỳ chiến tranh Lạnh, Đông Đức thân Liên Xô ko có cà phê uống, còn Tây Đức thương mại tự do với Pháp, Ý,… nên có cà A uống. Thời này uống cà phê đang trend, thể hiện sự sung túc, giàu có (có thuộc địa),..
Mấy anh Đông Đức lúc này mới lấy bắp với đậu rang lên chế ra cà phê phake, đưa cho dân uống chửi quá chừng. Thế là bèn sang VN cùng khối Cơm Sườn bơm $ để VN trồng cà Ro trên quy mô lớn, và sẽ nhập caphe VN về Đức.
Bấy giờ VN chỉ có le que những nơi trồng cà phê nhỏ lẻ từ thời Pháp mang sang thử nghiệm, cả cà A lẫn Ro, trong thời VNC-H cà phê cũng chỉ phục vụ trong nước. Ngặt nỗi trồng cà phê cần nhiều năm mới bắt đầu thu hoạch đc. Đông Đức chưa kịp hưởng thành quả thì Bức Tường Berlin sụp đổ, VN tới kỳ thu hoạch cafe, hưởng sái, xuất khẩu các nước Cơm Sườn và tới 1991 Bill Clinton sang thì xk quốc tế luôn. Game này VN thắng đời 1-0
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Coffee in Philippine Culture
Coffee plays a vital role in Philippine culture. Regardless of your age, class, or location, it’s normal for early-rising Filipinos to start their day with a fortifying cup of coffee and toasted pandesal or a classic full rice breakfast of rice and eggs paired with tuyo (dried fish), tocino (sweet cured pork), or traditional Filipino sausages called longganisa.
Traditionally brewed coffee drinkers of our grandparents’ generation have a sentimental attachment to Liberica, locally known as Kapeng Barako. Younger generations and coffee lovers now enjoy Second Wave and Third Wave coffee shops, which have become an important “third space” for many people whose lives consist of work, home, work, and school.
A quick history of Philippine coffee
Coffee is not endemic to the Philippines. The first coffee beans – Liberica beans, to be exact – were brought to the Philippines in 1740 by two Spanish Franciscan friars and planted in the cool, elevated plantations of Lipa, Batangas. This marked the beginning of what historians call a golden era for Philippine coffee, which lasted almost 150 years.
Liberica beans from the Philippines soon became a valuable export to Europe and America. They could command up to five times the value of Arabica beans, also cultivated in the Philippines. And when other major coffee-producing territories like Sri Lanka, India, Java, and Sumatra were hit in the 1870s by a destructive fungal disease called Coffee Rust (Hemileia Vastatrix), the Philippines was, for a short time, the world’s leading coffee producer.
Unfortunately, Coffee Rust attacked and eventually destroyed Philippine Liberica plantations in 1889. Whatever crops could be saved from Batangas plantations were eventually replanted in the nearby province of Cavite. However, Liberica has yet to regain its prominence, and coffee production and export have declined in importance for many decades.
During the American period, the Americans encouraged Philippine agriculturists to plant Robusta beans (Coffea canephora). Unlike Arabica and Liberica, which grow at optimal levels at minimum altitudes 200-300 meters above sea level, Robusta is easy to cultivate in the lowlands and is more disease and insect resistant. Today Robusta is the country’s most dominant variety. Most of the Philippines’ Robusta crop is used in the production of instant coffee by Philippine and multinational coffee producers.
Instant coffee is still an essential component of Philippine coffee culture. Many brands of convenient instant coffee are sold in supermarkets, together with many types of 3-in-1 coffee sachet products that include powdered coffee, creamer, and sugar, all in one packet.
Second-Wave and Third-Wave Coffee
The interest in Philippine coffee experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s when enterprising coffee businesses banded together to relaunch Kapeng Barako and promote many small groups of Philippine coffee producers in the Calabarzon Region, the Cordilleras, and many parts of northern and southern Mindanao.
The arrival of Seattle’s coffee brands, notably Starbucks and Seattle’s Best, and other major coffee shop brands in the Philippines (the so-called “Second Wave”) also helped spark interest in the coffee origin and sustainability. In the last decade, many independent coffee shop owners have begun sourcing their beans directly from coffee cooperatives and do some – or a lot – of their in-house bean roasting.
Today, passionate Third Wave coffee drinkers are terroir-driven and are deeply interested in where the beans came from, what types of beans they are (Arabica, Robusta, Excelsa, or Kapeng Barako), and what flavor profile they might have (nutty, floral, fruity – or a combination of the three). More often than not, by supporting certain coffee shops, you directly support coffee cooperatives that these shop owners and small distributors champion – whether they’re from Sagada, Batangas, Sulu, or other emerging coffee-producing areas in the Philippines.
So whenever you visit your favorite coffee place or are looking for a new coffee type to sip, ask your seller more about their latest batch of coffee beans, their origin, their flavor profile, and how best to brew it.
We hope you enjoy the flavor discovery that comes with every cup you have!
Please visit our Coffee page to learn more about the specifics of our coffee beans Philippines.
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