A Thread 🧵 about Coffee, Photography (and a bit tourism): Checking out Fine&Speciality Canephora/Robusta in Vietnam. A small travellog...
I was lucky enough to have been around when one of the importers of my friends Roastery came to visit, and they had planned a trip to visit Zanya, Great Cherry and Future Coffee Farm (Mr Toi) in Vietnam -- and asked if I´d like to join. Hell yeah!
These are some of the farms that work on making robusta so great that coffee can withstand climate-change.
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Even visually you can tell, left is conventional, right is ecological lots.
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This farm, the land was apparently owned and managed by the states military, which meant we had military people escorting us and explaining their crop management and methods. They were nice enough, but it felt a bit weird :D.
While the maincrop is already over, there are still a few ripe cherries here and there - they´re super sweet, and I got lucky and found a peaberry ^_^
[#]coffee #origin #vietnam
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They are also experimenting with certified organic farming, and this road was on the border between conventional left and organic right. You can even see how much greener, with grass and herbs, the right side is. The grass also reduces the need for irrigation, which I learnt Robusta also often has - it needs much less water than Arabica, but it has a shallower root system. Even some wild peanuts grow, and there´s more and higher shadow-and-windbreak-trees!
[#]coffee #robusta #vietnam #origin
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The processing ("producer") facility of Great Cherry. They buy the fresh cherries from small farmers (like the ones in the frontyard-drying-pic, but fresh) or bigger farmers like the military owned land, and then apply their considerable processing knowledge, thereby increasing profit for the farmers by ~30-50%, and making some amazing coffee.
Here we see the wet mill part, with transporters, sorter, floating (to remove spoilt) and a honey process crusher.
[#]coffee #processing #origin #vietnam
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Also, I got to swim in patio-drying commodity! :D
The commercial/commodity coffee looks quite horrible though. It has big chunks of mold (white and green!), lots of impurities (some of which will be removed), and is generally rather eewww-y. It´s made up from the green rejects from the speciality coffee to a big part - which is still high quality coffee.
This, dear #coffee lovers, is what´s in instant and/or cheap store coffee bags.
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I also took some serious #photography and made a really quick edit run on the laptop. It´s not very cleanly edited, but ... it´s something!
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