Peru Coffee story, suitable for blending method.

Hello everyone Catch Mind here. Today I would like to talk about Peru Coffee which is very suitable for blending.

 

 

Falling of Peru's Coffee Industry Due to Politics.

In the 1900s, England used the 25% of the land that they received to cultivate crops from the Peru Government which was a way of paying their debt. Not all of it was used for the coffee cultivation but some portion of its land was used for coffee plants.

 

The Peru Coffee industry looked promising at the time. Most of the coffee were cultivated by the immigrant workers and some of them even bought the land from England to own the farms to themselves.

 

But its promising industry lasted only for so long. When they entered 1970s, coffee industry was getting restricted by the government. This caused the built infrastructure to be destroyed and the farmers were getting kicked out from their own farms.  And there were further incomprehensible actions were taken by the government.

 

 

Regrettable coffee infrastructure and quality.

The coffee infrastructure was no longer functioning due to the destruction from the Government and as a result the quality of the coffee became very worse.

 

Not only the large warehouses, individual warehouses were very lacking which caused the produced coffee to travel long distances to be processed and be sold. These unnecessary processes inevitably meant worse quality of the coffee. In addition to this, intermediate traders started to play tricks which only boosted the mistrust of the Peru coffee.

 

These factors resulted in lowering the Peru Coffee price hence farmers were getting very low profits out of it. These vicious circle lasted for quite some time.

 

 

Hopeful improvement.

Peru's SmallHolder co-operatives planned their improvement and growth by concentrating on the international fair trading and organic production. This made them the 2nd largest producer of the fair trade certified coffee followed by Mexico.

 

The certification and improvement on the quality made them available to sell their coffee at a premium price in the global market. They also started to invest in their infrastructure using the funds from the international associations and donations from the world very purposefully.

 

 

There were meaningful fruition on the general improvement of the coffee quality, better processing, better transportation and education for the organic production along with the social development.

 

By adopting the modern cultivation method which is based on the strict system, Peru coffee is now the 9th largest producer in the world producing around 2% of global production of coffee.

 

 

Peru Coffee is suitable for blending.

Peru coffee's cup profile is sweet and rather heavy body. It maintains bright acidity and has relatively neat taste compared to the other coffee.

 

But on the other hand the taste could be rather plain. Its characteristics are rather simple so to some people they could possibly think that it tastes like nothing. The 'plain taste' could be an advantage when used for blending. This means that when it comes to blending, you could use this coffee to make up the certain portion of the quantity you are trying to blend.

 

When you use the Brazilian coffee for blending, once you use more than certain ratio, the Brazilian coffee nuance could be rather strong, hence you either take the risk or limit the portion that you are mixing with. However when you are blending with Peru Coffee, even if you mix it with the proportion of 70-80% it does not show notable difference which can be advantage.

 

 

Peru Coffee's roasting point.

Although Peru Coffee is very suitable due to its "low price" and "plain taste" it is not easy to roast due to the low density of green bean and the large size of it.

 

The progress of the Roasting should take the consideration of "very low density" but this will be a long story so I will be sharing a post about "Roasting technique depending on the density". It will help you out if you have a read about it.

 

 

Lastly,

We talked about relatively unknown coffee, the Peru coffee. I posted this so that I could help you give an additional alternative option for those people who are looking for a coffee that is suitable for blending.

 

If you can receive the Peru coffee on a stable basis I reckon it will be a great choice. I hope this post helped you a lot and I will be ending the post here.

 

 

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