The Arabica coffee

Coffee Arabica or coffee made from Arabica beans is probably one of the most common commercially produced types of coffee.

Seventy percent of produced coffee in the world is made of coffee beans of the Arabica species. The other type is the Robusta bean.

Coffee Arabica or Arabica coffee grows from Arabian coffee shrub. History tells us that Arabica beans were the first coffee beans to be cultivated in the southwest area of Arabia.

The shrubs of Arabica coffee grown up to nine and eleven meters tall and its flowers are the color of white. It is said that the smell of the Arabica coffee resembles that of the Jasmine flower.

Today coffee Arabica is grown in different areas of the world, not just in the Middle East or Africa.

It takes around seven years or so for the coffee Arabica to fully mature and produce flowers. The shrub grows better in lighter shade.

When it produces fruit – which are called berries – it is in the color red which eventually turns into purple. The fruit of the Arabica usually has two seeds inside which become the coffee bean.

The different flavors and aromas of coffee beans are due to the differences in soil composition, climate, location and region, and seasonal conditions.

These different nuances and elements cause the coffee beans to taste and smell differently. Most coffee blends have the base of Brazilian beans and flavored by African coffee beans.

Arabica grown and harvested in the Java, Sumatra area in Indonesia typically have a more acidic flavor than other Arabica species.

If you are a coffee lover and enthusiast, the history of coffee and coffee Arabica is fascinating. Globalization has truly made coffee drinking and consumption and intricate and complex process but yet it makes for great tasting coffee.