Several unusual varieties of coffee

Coffee threes
All the variety of coffee varieties is reduced to almost two varieties - arabica and robusta. This division is not by chance - by types of coffee trees. Arabian coffee tree (Coffea arabica) gives a more expensive coffee, which has a bright and deep flavor.

Kanefora Robusta coffee trees (Coffea Canephora) is characterized by a high content of caffeine in the beans. It is a cheaper coffee. Robusta beans are usually diluted to reduce the cost of arabica coffee finished product.
Strictly speaking, there is Liberica. Fruit quality Liberica low. They are used only for the creation of various mixtures.

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One of the world's most expensive coffee Kopi Luwak costs $ 160 a pound. To be exported from Indonesia. Coffee beans receive the most natural treatment of the possible - in the stomach of wild civet cat tree (also known as civet cat), living in the tropical jungles of the islands of Java and Sumatra. Animals regale coffee fruit, selecting the best, most ripe and fragrant ones. Strange but true, the body of the grain output in virtually undigested form. But as a result of processing in the stomach and the digestive enzymes of the bacteria significantly improved taste. Local people are scouring the jungle and collect unusual feces. For a year they are collected only 10-50 kg. Hence the high price of the product. Connoisseurs of the drink claim that the "cat" coffee taste of burnt sugar. University of Guelph in Canada, studied composition grains Kopi Luwak. Experts have found that they have less protein, also below the bacterial background.

Fans will appreciate the most exclusive and coffee Hacienda La Esmeralda (Panama). Price - $ 104 per pound. Coffee trees of this variety are enticing name of "geisha". To the Japanese priestesses of love sort of irrelevant. Area of ​​Ethiopia, where coffee trees grow, "geisha" is called Gesha. The letter "J" added insightful plantation owners in order to attract interest in the product.

Royal Class
But the real geisha prefer a sweet aroma and pure taste of coffee ... French King Louis XV, and the writer Honore de Balzac. In the country of the Rising Sun has recently reproduced the unique variety of coffee, lost in the first half of the last century. Coffee company UCC Ueshima Coffee has recreated the famous "Bourbon pointe" and now sells it at the price of 7350 yen (about $ 60) per 100 grams.

Originally favorite kind of French nobility variety was bred in the heyday of the Bourbon dynasty in France at the end of the XVII century. Coffee beans were brought from Yemen to the island of Reunion, where they happened rare double mutation. The great novelist Honore de Balzac said of the action of alcoholic drink: "all flash, thoughts crowded as the great army battalions on the battlefield."

During World War II, a unique sort of faded. The Japanese company has revived the "royal" coffee, but not in a hurry to establish its mass production. Elite Class is available to only the most secured gourmets.
Is cheap and sort of Island of St.Helena Coffee (island of Saint Helena, Africa) - $ 79za pound. You know, and here without French gourmets has not done. Or rather a gourmet, but very regal. Napoleon was exiled adored local coffee. This fact was made public in a hundred years after the death of the emperor and strongly influenced the price of a drink. Preserved statements regarding Bonaparte invigorating drink: "Strong coffee revives me. It brings me a warm, amazing energy, and the pain, which made fun. I like to suffer more than not suffer. "

Drink 007
The British royal family and the popular movie character James Bond, too, have their own preferences, they give up their coffee Jamaican Blue Mountain (Jamaica) - $ 49 per pound. "Blue Mountain" is named after the mountain range, where it grows. Plantations on which it is grown, are located on the slopes at the top of an extinct volcano at 1,500 m above sea level. In addition, this coffee full of flavor rum casks in which it was transported.

Similar to the method of cultivation and Colombian coffee "Pico". It is grown on volcanic soil in the valley Dupar, and export from the legendary walled city of Cartagena, standing on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. Distinguish the subtle flavor of the drink notes of pine needles.

Science is advancing, and American enthusiasts invented another type of coffee ... sound. The inventors claim that the brain can be stimulated by the sounds of various types. They suggest using an invigorating, stimulating audio recording, which was referred to as Coffee Replacement («Coffee substitute").