on this video we are discussing single origins and the coffee belt
hey guys my name is theo le roux now there's loads to be said about it and
you can read on Google as much as you want there is so much to read about so
here's a quick video to explain all of that to you single region coffees is a
very simplistic word yet it is so specialized that we have to define the
word for what it truly is the word single region for a coffee person
basically just means that the coffee comes from a certain geographical place
or a specific farm but when most coffee shops talk about single origin coffees
we normally mean it is from a certain country so single region means it's
either a specific lot from a farm now we have an example we've got the Burundi
Peaberry here Burundi peaberry is from the Mutana hill now the farm is basically the
kayanza region so in that region there's probably ten different coffee
farms where one of the farm owns let's call it five different hills the Burundi
Peaberry is a micro lot that actually comes off
of the one hill so if you stand in the valley and you look up there's a hill
decide it's this one and then when you look to your left there's another with a
completely different profile to coffee because it grows on different elevations
number one number two this soil is different so the one on this side might
be a volcano hill that's got a very old unactive volcano where the hill on this
side is just normal soil high nutrition and obviously gets the same type of rain
so therefore the coffee flavor of both those hills are completely completely
different so when we say single origin that's what we mean we
mean single region for a specific flavor of coffee but in single region also
means it might be two different forms forming the same coffee
so Ethiopia for instance has Ethiopia Sudan when Ethiopia Yogesh F which is
two places very very close to each other and there are two different single
regions the Saddam when the yoga chef yet they come from the same country then
you also get single regions where someone would say oh so that is an
Ethiopian or that is a Guatemala or that is an Nicaragua which means it's from a
completely different country it's not two different areas in one country is
actually two different countries so when we say single region I think the better
definition is what flavor do you want in your coffee that would probably be the
most simplistic way to look at it the reason for that for me is when I speak
of single region I want to know I'm gonna be having a nice fruity slightly
citrusy type of flavor so it's got that fruitiness
that's citrusy on the side of the tongue and normally has a type of you know fast
soft finish so when when I say oh I like a single region coffee Oh what flavor of
single region then I'll be defining what type of flavor I want from my single
engine or you might like a different single region for instance a single
region that carries flavors of that soft touch of nuttiness turning into that
beautiful cocoa on the center of the tongue and having that kind of
earthy tobacco ish nutty finish which is slightly heavier than the light rose so
I think the most simplistic way to define a single region would probably be
that go for flavors more than going for what country of course the country's got
to do with it because certain countries have certain flavors like the Burundi
specifically this pea berry is very raspberry it's a very reddish type of
coffee as well then we've got the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe which is a dark
tea but carries white grapes and so on and
so forth then we've got some Nicaragua which carries a lot of cocoa soft
flavors of tobacco very earthy which is gorgeous and then of course we've got
the normal small ones which double-shot does a phenomenal phenomenal and
malawian Coffee the Malawian coffee is also a fruity start of the palate but
then it turns into this very dark earthy flavor which is insane so it's an it's
an awesome single origin one type of coffee it's not a blame so that is
single regions basically defined by me let's jump to the next thing the coffee
belt if you've ever heard of the coffee belt please hit me and like we call it
the bean belt to the coffee belt it actually has many different names now
the coffee belt is the area in which coffee grows now all the way from even
Hawaii but mostly South America straight through to Indonesia it's kind of the
coffee belt now how do we define where the coffee belt lays well if you take
the equator and you go 5000 plus minus 5000 kilometers north or 5,000
kilometers south that is what we would call the coffee belt coffee mainly grows
in those areas I'll also put a link in the description
below for you guys to to go to a website they give a beautiful beautiful example
of a map and all the different countries that grows the coffee in those in the
coffee belt now you get two types of coffee should get robusta beans and
Arabica beans and on that link or in that link you will see certain areas
that only grows robusta other areas that only grows Arabica and then there
certain areas have grows both now the important thing to note of the coffee
belt and the reason why coffee grows there mainly is because of the altitude
the humidity and the amount of rain that they actually get during those periods
now in places like but robusta for instance which is more as South American
Mexican Brazilian type of bean grows everything from zero meters above sea
level all the way to about a thousand 100 meters above sea level
now robusta can go higher as well but that's kind of the the altitude way they
grow most of it then Arabica for instance only starts at 751 now this is
not confirmed for me so if you can if you've got some information please hit
me in the comments down below I would love to career about it but for now the
most I know about robusta beans is that a girl of Arabica beans is that it
starts growing at seven hundred and fifty-one meters above sea level upwards
now again I am NOT a coffee grower I can only learn from people that are and they
grow all the way up to about three thousand eight hundred meters above sea
level and the higher you go the more sweetness flavours comes out of the bean
itself I would say that average is probably between a thousand two hundred
and two thousand six hundred metres above sea level that's where my favorite
palette comes from so Coffee belt yes that area with a minimum
of 97 humidity and they say a minimum of 400 millimeters of rain per year more
than that obviously the coffee appreciates but less than that
it dries out really really quickly and so therefore you won't get as much
liquid inside your coffee cherries and then the flavor obviously is defined by
that now I do have one little thing and this is for all the coffee guys out
there if you are big into coffee and you've been working in the coffee
industry for 20 25 or 30 years please get in contact with me because I live in
Pretoria in the northern side of the mountain where the humidity is not that
high we probably got 50 - on a very very rainy in a very rainy singing season
maybe about 60 - humidity but there's a guy here against the mountain who is
growing Arabica beans in his backyard and so the first time he said to me he's
got coffee in his backyard I was like ah probably robusta right because the
humidity is very very low here and the amount of rain is not that much but
coffee guys I think we should start questioning what we know about or what
we think about coffee because if he is actually growing Arabica coffee beans in
his backyard then maybe we can grow in more different places now I will be
making a video about it soon and we he's just waiting for his green cherries to
turn red as soon as they turn red he's gonna let me know we're gonna go out to
his house and actually form the tree itself to make sure that it's Arabica
and robusta and you know the size of the coffee here and see how much water
content is inside of it and then of course grab a few dry it wash it or wash
the dry roast it and actually see what type of flavor we can get out of it now
in Pretoria where a thousand four hundred and sixty odd metres above sea
level humidity very low and round about 300 to 400 Mali
millimeters of rain per year so if there's any coffee roasters roll coffee
growers or even coffee wash base out there and please get in contact with me
because we might be able to create a completely new flavor or a completely
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