Brazil Cerrado Mineiro - Espresso

Brazil Cerrado Mineiro - Espresso

This is a short term cover for the Brazil Lameda, there has been a lot of delays of coffee coming from Brazil, but this is a very tasty coffee that will hit the right spot! 

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• Producers + Mill:

Paubrasil delivers the best of classic natural-processed coffee from the Cerrado Mineiro
region and is Ally's core coffee from Brazil. Named after Brazil’s national tree, Paubrasil
exemplifies the consistent quality achieved by Brazil’s experienced farmers, who leverage
all available technologies to grow coffees with balanced, smooth profiles, even in changing
environmental conditions.
Each container of Paubrasil is traceable back to the farm(s) where it was grown through a
QR code linking to an online profile compiled prior to shipping the coffee. Paubrasil coffee
is transparently certified as part of the Regiao Cerrado Mineiro Designation of Origin
program. Coffees certified with the Designation of Origin are grown on farms in an area
encompassing 55 municipalities that produce coffees with a unique identity, resulting from
the combination of climate, soil, terrain, elevation, and the “know-how” of producers.
Paubrasil’s contributing producers belong to one of nine cooperatives or six associations
affiliated with the Cerrado Coffee Growers Federation, have signed a statement of good
practices in accordance with Brazilian labor laws, and store coffee in accredited
warehouses post-harvest.

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• Varieties:

Catuaí is a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra, which was developed by Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC) in 1949. Together with Red Catuai, it is a highly resistant cultivar suitable for growing in higher altitudes and windy areas. Both Catuais have very refined and clean acidity, has a rich yield and is well-known for this fact. Next to Yellow Catuai there is also Red Catuai – Catuai-vermelho.

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• Process:

At processing facilities in the farms’ main buildings, cherries are then sorted by color and density: green, unripe cherries are set aside for lower quality coffee lots and ripe cherries move forward as differentiated lots. Many farms use canals to sort out floating coffee cherries, which indicate less-dense cherries with improperly formed beans inside. Ripe red or yellow cherries that sink to the bottom of the canals are the most desirable, and they are next transferred to drying patios or beds.

Naturally processed coffees, like the Paubrasil, are dried as a full cherries. This allows the sugary layer of pectin under the skin of the cherry to be absorbed into the beans as they dry, adding sweetness and hints of earthiness perceptible in the final cup.

Coffee cherries can be dried on stone patios or on raised mesh beds in the sun. In both cases workers constantly turn the cherries with rakes to prevent the formation of mold and to evenly dry all beans to the same moisture levels. Many coffees are transferred to a mechanical drum dryer, often heated with hot air from burning the stalks and branches of pruned coffee trees, to reach a uniform export-ready moisture level of 11.5%.

Dried coffee cherries are hulled to removed the coffee cherry skin, called pulp, and a layer of parchment seed casing. These are now the more familiar green beans purchased by coffee roasters. Producers (or processors, cooperatives, and exporters) sort the green coffee again according to density and color using shake tables, screens, and laser sorters prior to packing it for export.

Processing differs depending on the infrastructure and labor realities of each farm, and many farms across the Cerrado contribute to each container of Paubrasil, a community coffee that is sourced according to physical consistency of the green beans and sensorial consistency of the flavor profile of the cup.

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• Region:  Cerrado Mineiro, Minas Gerais
• Producer: Ricardo Tavares
• Importer: Ally (via Mio) 
• Price (green ex Shipping): £7.85p kg

• Variety: Catuai 
• Process: Natural Process
• Altitude: 750 - 1000masl
• Amount Bought: 1200kg

 

• Tasting: Nutty, Choc, fruity, round, High Sweetness
• Flavours like: Dried fruit, Almond, Chocolate