Robusta coffee

This one is a Mexican, I believe.

Robusta.

This is something in the industry that we use for espresso.

We use it for whatever else, right? Filler.

Is it Outkast? I think it's Outkast.

I mix a little bit here and there with my dark roast.

Kind of make that jet fuel just like some of the other companies out there using Robusta from time to time to get people that hit that thing that they just need, right? But don't get me twisted.

This is just one of many, right? There's a coffee program that's developed within a coffee industry.

Now instant coffee, kind of a money-saving product.

However, you know, it's made with Robusta, which is a less robust bean in some ways.

But we're starting to see a more bespoke treatment of instant coffee.

And I've seen it at Starbucks and maybe, what is it, Arabic? What's the name? Arabic.

I mean, they're obviously so coffee-focused as well.

I know traditionally a lot of Robusta, but they're moving more and more into Arabica and there's definitely a real focus in the country around coffee.

So, yeah, it'd be interesting to see, yeah.

Yeah, Vietnam, world's second largest producer after Brazil.

When will the first Robusta win the WBC?

These are pretty heavy rule changes for that one.

Yeah.

The roastery sources its beans from the Kha Dat region, just outside the city, where the volcanic soil produces some of the best Arabica in Vietnam.

The flavor was bright and fruity, a stark contrast to the Robusta grown further north in Buon Ma Thuot.

I paid 40,000 dong for the cup, which felt fair for the quality.

It is moments like these that remind me why I chose to stay in Da Lat during the transition from the monsoon to the dry season.

All right.

Arabica and Robusta are the two most common types of what?

Coffee, and I am sitting in front of a Starbucks.

There you go.

So there's two different sorts of coffee.

Arabica coffee, which most people understand would be specialty coffee, but on the lower level lands there's Robusta coffee, which is often used in instant and soluble coffee and sort of like a more lower quality coffee.

You want Arabica coffee, very high altitude, in the highest altitude between that sort of like 1,500 and 2,000 feet.

Oh, interesting.

This is the Pacamara variety and, um, I think some of that has to do with like heritage of the plants, right? So you have a bunch of different ones now, but the most common is like Arabica.

You've got Robusta.

You've got this Pacamara.

There's some others that's like SL28.

It is strange to see such modern infrastructure rising in the middle of a city that still struggles with basic drainage.

The museum itself is a temple to the bean, filled with machinery from different eras, explaining how Vietnam became the world's leading producer of Robusta.

I buy a ticket for 80,000 dong and spend an hour reading about the trade routes, the drying methods, and the export contracts that keep this region running.

By mid-afternoon, the drizzle stops, leaving that heavy, humid silence that precedes the next storm.