{"product_id":"honduras-lalita-orange-bourbon-natural","title":"Honduras Lalita Orange Bourbon Natural","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLemon, caramel, Jackfruit. A citric acidity livens the cup. The cup fades to caramel and milk chocolate in the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Orange Bourbon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Bourbon variety is one of the two major cultivated varieties from which most coffee growing around the world today descends (The other being Typica) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1718 seeds from Yemen were brought to the French colony on Reunion Island near Madagascar, The called Bourbon Island after the French House of Bourbon which ruled France at the time. Around 1860 plants from Reunion were brought to mainland Africa and to Brazil. The coffee depended from these plants came to be known as the Bourbon variety after the name of the island at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBourbon can still be found fairly commonly in Africa, Brazil, and some countries in Central America such as Guatemala and El Salvador.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bourbon variety usually produces red fruit, but mutations have ocurred where the fruit color is yellow. There is a cultivated variety called Yellow Bourbon which is rarer but still not too uncommon which resulted from a natural cross of Red Bourbon and a Yellow fruited Typica plant called Yellow de Botucatu in Brazil in 1930 and was released commercially to growers in the early 1950's. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then there is Orange Bourbon, the origins of which are more murky. Any time there are red and yellow fruited trees in the same field it is possible to get some plants of an intermediary orange color or pink color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a cultivated variety Orange bourbon is exceedingly rare. Occasionally grown still on a handful of farms in El Salvador it is from there that the Mierisch family acquired seeds of the variety to plant on their farms in Nicaragua and Honduras. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrange bourbon has a cup profile in between red and yellow bourbon. It has the well balanced sweet cup of red bourbon, but a more delicate flavor profile of caramel and citrus that is more like yellow bourbon. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Orange Bourbon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Bourbon variety is one of the two major cultivated varieties from which most coffee growing around the world today descends (The other being Typica) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1718 seeds from Yemen were brought to the French colony on Reunion Island near Madagascar, The called Bourbon Island after the French House of Bourbon which ruled France at the time. Around 1860 plants from Reunion were brought to mainland Africa and to Brazil. The coffee depended from these plants came to be known as the Bourbon variety after the name of the island at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBourbon can still be found fairly commonly in Africa, Brazil, and some countries in Central America such as Guatemala and El Salvador.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bourbon variety usually produces red fruit, but mutations have ocurred where the fruit color is yellow. There is a cultivated variety called Yellow Bourbon which is rarer but still not too uncommon which resulted from a natural cross of Red Bourbon and a Yellow fruited Typica plant called Yellow de Botucatu in Brazil in 1930 and was released commercially to growers in the early 1950's. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then there is Orange Bourbon, the origins of which are more murky. Any time there are red and yellow fruited trees in the same field it is possible to get some plants of an intermediary orange color or pink color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a cultivated variety Orange bourbon is exceedingly rare. Occasionally grown still on a handful of farms in El Salvador it is from there that the Mierisch family acquired seeds of the variety to plant on their farms in Nicaragua and Honduras. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs far as to how orange bourbon came to Vietnam, we aren't sure. Vietnam being a former French colony used to have lots of Bourbon variety coffee growing there in colonial times. Yellow bourbon exists there so it isn't surprising there is also orange bourbon. Whether Yellow bourbon came there from the Brazilian material or it was a local mutation producing yellow fruit on bourbon plants there (which would make it more of a true yellow bourbon than the Brazilian variety bearing that name which is a hybrid with typica) we don't know yet. But we are sending samples of both to RD2 in France for Genetic comparison to see if that question may be answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrange bourbon has a cup profile in between red and yellow bourbon. It has the well balanced sweet cup of red bourbon, but a more delicate flavor profile of caramel and citrus that is more like yellow bourbon. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you enjoy comparing the similarities and differences in these two washed examples grown on opposite parts of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Finca Lalita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformation from farm owner Erwin Mierisch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our Orange Bourbon seed stock comes from Nicaragua, more specifically from my\u003cbr\u003euncle’s farm, El Suspiro. My uncle, Alejandro Saldaña, who is originally from El\u003cbr\u003eSalvador obtained his seeds from his home country, from the renowned Malacara\u003cbr\u003eproducers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy father, Erwin J. Mierisch, was head judge for COE in Honduras in 2011 and he\u003cbr\u003esaw great potential in Honduran coffee. At the time Honduran coffee wasn’t\u003cbr\u003eperceived or noticed for high-quality. The story on how we learned about Cerro\u003cbr\u003eAzul is the following: After the Honduran COE my dad attended SCAE in 2011.\u003cbr\u003eThere he and Stephen Leighton of Has Bean UK were talking about the great\u003cbr\u003epotential of Honduran coffee. Stephen jokingly said, “why do you just buy a coffee\u003cbr\u003efarm in Honduras?” As luck would have it, later that night, an UTZ inspector came\u003cbr\u003eup to them and mentioned he had accidentally overheard their conversation and\u003cbr\u003esaid he knew a producer in Honduras that was selling his farm. That farm was\u003cbr\u003eCerro Azul. The rest is history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mierisch family acquired other properties near near Cerro Azul including Lalita at 1450-1550m where this Orange Bourbon Lot comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paradise Coffee Roasters","offers":[{"title":"6oz \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":40233709338729,"sku":"","price":143.21,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"6oz \/ Auto Drip","offer_id":40233709371497,"sku":"","price":143.21,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"6oz \/ French Press","offer_id":40233709404265,"sku":"","price":143.21,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"12oz \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":40233709437033,"sku":"","price":238.69,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"12oz \/ Auto Drip","offer_id":40233709469801,"sku":"","price":238.69,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"12oz \/ French Press","offer_id":40233709502569,"sku":"","price":238.69,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"5lb \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":40233709535337,"sku":"","price":1471.93,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"5lb \/ Auto Drip","offer_id":40233709568105,"sku":"","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"5lb \/ French Press","offer_id":40233709600873,"sku":"","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7057\/products\/orange_bourbon_6bfcf7a2-82eb-4634-b91a-5dd78f5b4495.jpg?v=1660620748","url":"https:\/\/paradiseroasters.com\/en-hk\/products\/honduras-lalita-orange-bourbon-natural","provider":"Paradise Coffee Roasters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}