Coffee from Myanmar is Rare in the US Marketplace
In fact after the one offering we had from 2000, we haven’t see in since! Maybe with the recent political changes it will reappear. The region has produced RobustaRobusta usually refers to Coffea Robusta, responsible for roughly 25% of the world's commercial coffee. Taxonomy of Robusta is debated: some sources use “Robusta” to refer to any variety of Coffea Canephora, and some use More type low-grade coffee for a while, but arabicaArabica refers to Coffea Arabica, the taxonomic species name of the genus responsible for around 75% of the worlds commercial coffee crop.: Arabica refers to Coffea Arabica, the taxonomic species name of the genus responsible More has only been offered for the past 2 years that I am aware of. We offer it because it is unique, has great bodyAssociated with and sensed by mouthfeel, body is sense of weight and thickness of the brew, caused by the percentage of soluble solids in the cup, including all organic compounds that are extracted from brewing More, and is very nice in darker roasts. The preparationPreparation refers to the dry-milling steps of preparing coffee for export: hulling, grading, classifying, sorting.: Preparation refers to the dry-milling steps of preparing coffee for export: hulling, grading, classifying, sorting. Sorting means using density sorters More is on par with Brazilian dry-processed Specialty coffees, but Myanmar doesn’t really qualify as a Specialty coffee yet in my opinion …partly because we just don’t know much about subregional distinctions from Myanmar coffees …And it is just too early to tell what cup quality this originIn coffee talk, it refers to a coffee-producing region or country; such as, "I was just at origin." Of course "Origin" for most product we use is not a beautiful farm in a temperate climate, More will be capable of producing.
Sadly, Myanmar has been under fairly authoritarian rule until recently. There were great civil rights questions looming in relation to the military powers and the ruling elite. One might assume that consuming products from Myanmar might prolong the despotic rule, and in some cases this might be true. But this was the same case in Timor
Hibrido de Timor abbreviated HdT is the interspecies hybrid of C. Arabica and C. Canephora (Robusta) that was found in Timor Leste in the 1940s. It has been the bases of plant breeding for disease More, where money from the organicGrown without the use of artificial fertilizers, herbicides, etc.: Organic coffee has been grown according to organic farming techniques, typically without the use of artificial fertilizers. Some farms have more local Organic Certification than the More coop directly aided the coffee farmers and circumvented the occupying Indonesian powers. The coffee we purchase from Myanmar also comes from a farmer cooperative called Golden Trangle, which (as in East Timor) was started with US AID grant money.
