WHAT IS PEABERRY COFFEE?

So what is a peaberry coffee bean? It’s a natural mutation in which a single bean grows on its own inside the coffee cherry, rather than with a twin. They lack the familiar flat side that normal beans have, and they are smaller than a standard bean.
Peaberry beans comes from coffee cherries that grew with just one seed instead of two seeds – a result of a natural mutation.

Peaberry is the name applied to the round coffee beans. The development of these round beans has been attributed to the abortion of one of the two ovules in the ovary, thus making extra space available to the single developing seed.
The Spanish name for this is caracolillo, meaning “little snail,” because of its more rounded shape.
Interestingly, specific regions like Brazil, Tanzania, Kenya, and Kona tend to produce more peaberry since they have the infrastructure in place to find and separate the peaberries from the normal beans.

Once the coffee is sorted and processed, peaberry coffee is treated in the same way as a normal bean. Like all beans, a roaster will roast a test batch or two to determine the optimal roasting procedure to achieve the best results for the bean.
Some coffee roasters say that peaberry coffees are easier to roast because their rounder shape lets them roast more easily than their flat-sided cousins.

Are Peaberry Coffee Beans Stronger than Regular Beans?
If you’re talking about caffeine, Peaberry coffee beans do have a slightly higher amount, especially from the Robusta coffee plant.
Tanzania Peaberry coffee bean has a 1.42% caffeine content while the Yemen Mocha Mattari has only 1.01% caffeine. Guatemalan and Kona beans are high in caffeine with 1.20 to 1.32% caffeine and Zimbabwe and Ethiopian Harrar having lower levels around 1.10% and 1.13% respectively.

But if you’re talking about stronger flavor, that’s still due to the origin, roast, and extraction. Coffee from Indonesia and East Africa, especially in a darker roast, still tend to taste stronger than coffee from Hawaii or South America, no matter how many beans come from each coffee cherry.

Many coffee lovers claim that peaberry coffee tastes sweeter, lighter, and more flavorful than the regular beans from the same batch. But, the consensus is, while it can be different in its flavor, it’s by no means stable or consistently superior.
They are considered some of the best coffee’s in the world.

Can You Trust the Hype? Are Peaberries Better Beans?
When you hear about something like this, you have to wonder, is this genuinely a special product or is this marketing magic?
I mean, if you can market civet poop coffee at $600 a pound.

Why is Peaberry so Expensive?
Peaberry is so expensive because of the hand sorting process required to separate the peaberries from the standard beans. Typically, no more than 5-10% of any coffee crop consists of peaberries, and selecting these out takes time, which adds to the cost.

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