I'm going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. [Where Do Coffee Beans Come Form?]

我要告訴你一些基礎的咖啡技巧 [咖啡豆從哪裡來?]

Where do coffee beans come from? They are grown mostly in tropical climate

咖啡豆從哪裡來? 它們大多生長於熱帶氣候地區

at a higher altitude, at least that's where the quality beans are going to be coming from. There are

海拔較高的地方，至少有品質的豆子是從那邊來的。

three main growing regions. This is Africa, Central/South America, and Indonesia.

有三種個主要產區，非洲、中南美洲和印度尼西亞

Some of the biggest coffee producing countries are Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Sumatra.

幾個最大的出產國家是巴西、哥倫比亞、衣索比亞、蘇門答臘

There are two main species of the coffee plant in general, and there's arabica and robusta.

一般來說，咖啡樹有兩個主要品種，阿拉比卡和羅布斯塔

And any specialty coffee is going to be arabica. There are some robustas that are

任何精品咖啡都是阿拉比卡咖啡。有些羅布斯塔咖啡

in recent years of a higher quality, but still you won't really see that at any reputable coffee shop.

近幾年來品質變高了，但你還是不會在任何著名的咖啡館看到

The arabica is higher growing, lower yield, more susceptible to disease, and therefore a little bit more tricky to process.

阿拉比卡咖啡栽種得比較多，但產量低，又比較容易染病，所以栽種過程有點麻煩

So depending on where a coffee is grown, it can taste vastly different.

所以，依據產區的不同，嚐起來會有極大的差異

Even if it's the same kind of coffee. Within the 2 main species, arabica and robusta,

即使是同一種咖啡，就這兩個品種裡，阿拉比卡和羅布斯塔

there are countless varietals, very similar to wine. So different kinds of trees, different strains.

就有數不清的變種，就像酒一樣。因此不同的種類的樹，不同植株

They're named things like bourbon, catuai, caturra, there's just an endless amount of names.

就有不同的命名，像是波旁、卡杜艾、卡杜拉，數也數不完的名字

It ranges from the altitude to what the weather was like that year, the humidity to what country it's grown in.

從海拔高度到年度氣候、溼度、在哪一個國家種植。

It all tastes different. You can have a Bourbon varietal for instance

喝起來都不一樣。用波旁變種為例，

that's grown in El Salvador or grown in Kenya and it will just taste completely different.

在薩爾瓦多或肯亞種植，喝起來完全不一樣

And I think that's one of the really interesting things about coffee,

我覺得這是咖啡有趣的特點之一，

is just the endless range of flavors that you can discover. And some of them are just not repeatable at all,

有數不清的咖啡風味讓你探索。其中有一些再也不會重現

it just depends on that one harvest, that one climate, that one varietal.

只有那一次種得出來，那一年的氣候，那一個變種。

And that's what makes it sort of a temporary exciting special thing.

那就變成了一種有時效的，特別令人興奮的事