What Is Arabica Coffee? TL;DR Arabica (Coffea arabica) is a species of coffee plant, not a variety. It produces approximately 60 percent of the world’s coffee and virtually all specialty coffee. Moreover, Arabica originated tens of thousands of years ago as a...
How Are Coffee Varieties Created? TL;DR Coffee varieties are created through three mechanisms: natural mutation, natural hybridisation, and deliberate breeding. Each works differently and produces different outcomes. Natural mutation changes a single plant’s DNA...
What Is Maragogype Coffee? TL;DR Maragogype (sometimes spelled Maragogipe) is a natural mutation of Typica discovered in the town of Maragogype in Bahia, Brazil, in the late nineteenth century. It produces the largest beans in the Arabica species, earning the nickname...
What Is Catuai Coffee? TL;DR Catuai is a coffee variety created by crossing Mundo Novo (a natural Bourbon-Typica hybrid) with Caturra (a Bourbon mutation) at the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC) in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Researchers designed it to...
What Is Mundo Novo Coffee? TL;DR Mundo Novo is a natural hybrid of Bourbon and Typica, discovered in the Mundo Novo region of São Paulo state, Brazil, in the 1940s. It combines Bourbon’s sweetness and body with Typica’s clean acidity and vigorous growth....
