These facts tell you that it is just a prejudice to say that domestic round beans are not as good as Indonesian male beans

“Do you have Indonesian or Balinese male bean coffee for sale? I only want male beans, not female beans.” It seems like he knows a lot about coffee.

If a friend gives you a bag of Indonesian coffee beans after traveling to Indonesia, you will definitely be touched by this very sincere gift.

Does male bean coffee from Indonesia or Bali really represent the high quality of coffee beans and demonstrate the knowledge and taste of coffee drinkers?

This is actually a "scam". There is no distinction between male and female coffee beans. The so-called male coffee beans from Indonesia and Bali are actually round coffee beans, which are not much better than domestic round beans, but the price is definitely not at the same level.

The truth about coffee gender

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First of all, there is no distinction between male and female coffee trees. The coffee flower is a plant that has both stamens and pistils, which means that even if there is only one coffee tree in the world, it can still produce coffee berries.

Since it is hermaphrodite, there is no distinction between male and female. There is no question of male and female coffee trees, so there is naturally no question of gender for coffee beans.

In fact, what Indonesians call male beans, or Peaberry in English, refers to round coffee beans. Male beans is just the name translated from Chinese and has nothing to do with gender.

Friends who often drink coffee should all know that general coffee beans are round on one side and flat on the other side. We call them flat beans, or mother beans. This is the most normal form of coffee beans.

How are beans formed?

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Male beans usually grow at the top of the coffee tree, and only 5% of the fruits on a coffee tree will be in this shape. Because a piece of bean absorbs a lot of nutrients during the growth process, its color, mellowness and aroma will be stronger.

It is like ordinary coffee beans are twins, with two beans sharing one part of the nutrients, while the male bean is the only son, and one person can feed the whole family, so naturally it grows bigger and darker in color than the female bean, hence the name of dream coffee.

Are male beans tastier?

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Are male beans (round beans) tastier than female beans (flat beans)?

Theoretically speaking, round beans combine the nutrients that were originally supplied to two coffee kernels into one coffee kernel, making them more nutritious and having a fuller taste.

Compared with female beans, male beans have a mellower taste and lower acidity, making them more suitable for direct drinking. This is a good choice for friends who like to drink black coffee.

The world-famous male coffee beans include Hawaiian Kona beans, Tanzanian beans, Jamaican Blue Mountain beans, etc., all of which are very expensive. But if you usually drink coffee with mate or milk, and cannot taste the difference between male and female beans, it is better to choose more economical female beans.

But in fact, many male beans are mutant beans that have dried up and not received sufficient nutritional input. There is no way to prove that their growth has become stronger by absorbing nutrients from two coffee fruit cores, so this theory can be overturned.

Why should male beans be singled out?

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After coffee is roasted, irregular beans, broken beans, insect-eaten beans, immature beans and broken beans will greatly affect its appearance and taste, so there will be a manual selection process, and male beans are irregular beans, which need to be picked out and treated as defective beans. In order to reduce losses, coffee roasters and coffee bean traders will ask the bean processing plant or coffee farmers to pick out these defective beans at the green bean stage. Because male beans themselves are not insect-eaten or immature beans, they will be picked out separately, and the male bean yield rate is about 5%.

Normally, coffee farmers will not select male beans separately to sell. However, Indonesian coffee farmers are very smart. They manually select male and female beans. In addition, male beans are large, dark in color, medium in aroma, and have a long aftertaste. Of course, the yield is small, so the price is much higher than that of female beans.

Why do Chinese people have a special liking for Indonesian beans?

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First of all, Indonesian coffee tastes relatively good due to its climate and processing methods. The most famous ones are Mandheling coffee and Kopi Luwak. Kopi Luwak has been hyped up to sky-high prices, and the Catim flat beans produced in Bali are called female beans by local tour guides, and the corresponding ones are male beans, which are sold to tourists at very high prices.

Secondly, it is also the marketing strategy of Indonesian merchants to seize the Chinese people’s admiration for foreign things and make the goods more valuable.

In fact, if you observe carefully, you will find that most domestic coffee practitioners objectively deny the idea of ​​male and female coffee beans. Only a small number of unscrupulous merchants still insist on the statement that "coffee is divided into male and female, and male beans taste better" to confuse consumers... In this respect, the domestic coffee industry is more conscientious than Indonesian businessmen.

in conclusion:

There is no distinction between male and female coffee. You are free to choose where the coffee is produced and which brand of coffee to buy, but there is no need to spend money on such a deceptive concept.

Whether you choose Indonesian coffee, Ethiopian coffee, or domestic coffee, in the end it’s all just for the sake of drinking a delicious cup of coffee.

Domestic coffee is no longer what it used to be. If you have the spare money to be deceived by "male beans", why not spend a little change to try domestic coffee? For example, Luckin Coffee. All the coffee beans are selected from high-quality Arabica beans, which are cheap and good. The most important thing is that Luckin recently invited Liu Haoran to be the spokesperson. Seeing brother Haoran drinking coffee, who would care whether the coffee beans are male beans from Indonesia or female beans from China.