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Yellow Bourbon Coffee: Variety Traits and Brazil Flavor

November 24, 2016
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How Does Yellow Bourbon Coffee Taste From Brazil?

Yellow Bourbon coffee shows smooth fruit sweetness, obvious nutty notes, balanced gentle acidity, and a faint clean bitterness, with rich chocolate aroma and a bright, refreshing mouthfeel. Grown at high altitude and processed by the natural method, the variety delivers its strongest flavor expression.

The Bourbon variety originated on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean, now Reunion Island, as a mutation of Typica. Yellow Bourbon was first found in Brazil and likely formed from a cross between red-fruited Bourbon and a yellow-fruited Typica called Amerelo de Botocatu. Lower yield and weaker weather resistance limited its planting.

Yellow Bourbon, as a variety with outstanding quality among Brazilian coffees, is famous for its yellow fruit and excellent flavor after high-altitude sun-drying. This article starts with Front Street Brazil Aguas Claras Yellow Bourbon, sorting out its variety origin, producing region environment, processing method, and taste characteristics. You will learn about its sweet, smooth fruit sweetness, obvious nutty notes, balanced acidity, and faint clean bitterness, as well as its rich chocolate aroma and refreshing mouthfeel. At the same time, the article also explains the history of the Bourbon variety and the hybrid origin of Yellow Bourbon, and explains how pulped natural processing brings a thick sweetness similar to honey processing without excessive fermentation.

Front Street Yellow Bourbon Coffee Flavor Description, Variety Characteristics, Producing Region, Processing Method, Estate, Taste Introduction

Yellow Bourbon, namely Yellow Bourbon, has yellow fruit when ripe. It was first discovered in Brazil and is still mainly grown in Brazil today. It is generally believed that it may have formed from a cross between a red-fruited Bourbon variety and a yellow-fruited Typica variety called "Amerelo de Botocatu," followed by a mutation.

Among Brazil's rich coffee varieties, Yellow Bourbon is one of the variants with quite outstanding quality. Ordinary Bourbon fruit turns from green to yellow and then to red, while the appearance of Yellow Bourbon remains at the yellow stage throughout. When grown at high altitude and processed by the natural method, Yellow Bourbon can display excellent flavor.

Front Street Brazil Aguas Claras Yellow Bourbon Taste characteristics: sweetness like smooth fruit sweetness, obvious nutty flavor, balanced and gentle acidity, faint and clean bitterness, with rich chocolate aroma and nutty notes, and a bright, refreshing mouthfeel.

The Bourbon variety originated on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean (now called Reunion Island). It is a secondary variety produced by a mutation of Typica and, together with Typica, belongs to the oldest existing coffee varieties. Its green fruit turns bright red when ripe, while Yellow Bourbon is produced by crossing the Bourbon variety with other varieties. Due to lower yield and lower resistance to wind and rain, Yellow Bourbon has not been widely planted.

However, when grown in high-altitude areas, Yellow Bourbon will have excellent flavor performance. In recent years, the pulped natural method has been more commonly used, making this Front Street Brazil Yellow Bourbon from the Aguas Claras estate not only carry a thick sweetness similar to honey processing, but also avoid the unpleasant flavor of excessive fermentation. The aroma has a faint citrus note, the acidity is balanced and gentle, and it contains rich chocolate aroma and nutty flavor, with a refreshing mouthfeel.

This Front Street Brazil Aguas Claras Yellow Bourbon coffee bean is a Brazilian Yellow Bourbon we recently found with extremely high cost performance. Generally speaking, the price of Yellow Bourbon is much higher. Of course, its unique sweetness and thickness are indeed much better than the New World variety or Red Bourbon variety commonly used in ordinary Brazilian coffee, especially in the finish, where you can feel a warm, lingering nutty taste. Among Brazil's many coffee varieties, Yellow Bourbon is one of the variants with quite outstanding quality. Ordinary Bourbon turns from green to yellow and then red, but the appearance of Yellow Bourbon only remains yellow. Yellow Bourbon grown in a high-altitude environment and processed by the natural method has excellent flavor.

Front Street Brazil Yellow Bourbon (Brazil Chacal Yellow Bourbon) belongs to the Aguas Claras estate in the Llcinea region of Minas. Because the region where the estate is located has very excellent water quality, the coffee it produces all has an excellent standard.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.

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