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Brazil Yellow Bourbon

Brazil Yellow Bourbon

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Regular price $8.95 USD
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Flavor Notes: mellow cocoa, malt, mild acidity, sweet

Roast Recommendations: Medium Roast, Dark Roast

This coffee is going to be noticeably a little higher quality than a standard Brazil, like our CP Select. Also unlike the CP Select, it is traceable back to the specific farm and variety. There is also a social premium included in the purchase of this coffee that is called CriaCarmo, which is a youth initiative established by CarmoCoffees, the export partner in Carmo de Minas, that aims to provide social, education, and athletic opportunities to at-risk youth in the region. The youth who participate come mostly from the local coffee-producing families and enjoy things like karate, futbol, and chess lessons.

The Raw Facts

  • Origin: South America
  • Region: Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Farm: Sertao
  • Variety: Yellow Bourbon
  • Altitude: 1100 - 1400 masl
  • Process: Washed
  • Certifications: none

Uncropping the Details

Fazenda Sertão is an 850-hectare farm with 330 hectares planted in coffee trees of several varieties, including Red and Yellow Bourbon, Yellow Catucai, and Yellow Catuai. The farm also grows bananas and corn and is used to raise dairy livestock. This farm has a love story behind it: Among the first generation of coffee growers in this area was Jose Isidro Pereira, a dentistturned–coffee producer who inherited Fazenda Sertão from his mother when she passed away—an incident that ended his dentistry career but put him on a path to coffee farming. In 1949, Jose Isidro met the "love of his life," Nazareth, who continues to run the farm her husband left in her care. Nazareth and Jose Isidro's children—Francisco, Luiz Paulo, Clycia, and Sandra—are also coffee producers, carrying on the family tradition.

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