This month we are getting our passports out and heading for Brazil! Although Brazil is known for it's high coffee output it is not as well known for highly complex flavors. We have found two of our favorites and hope you enjoy them as well.

Brazil produces 80% Arabican coffee and has a 35% share in the world market. South American coffee has a distinct taste which coffee connoisseurs distinguish as bright flavor with clean crisp taste. Brazilian coffee is known for its light body, sharp acidity and simplicity, and this has captured the taste and smell of millions of coffee drinkers world wide.

Unfortunately for Brazil's coffee, 95 percent of the country rests below 3,000 feet, so that Brazilian beans have always tended to lack acidity and body. Worse, Brazil suffers from periodic frosts and droughts, which have increased in intensity and frequency as the protective forest cover has been destroyed. Coffee cannot stand a hard frost, and it needs plenty of rain (70 inches a year) as well. The Brazilian harvest begins soon after the end of the rains, usually in May, and continues for six months. Because Brazilian coffee is cultivated without shade, it grows even more quickly, depleting the soil unless artificially fertilized.

Our first selection is Brazil Baggio Platinum. Brazil Baggio’s Platinum coffee is known for its mild smooth flavor, complex intense aroma, rich medium body with a just the right spicy and sweet taste. This coffee from Brazil is medium roasted to produce an ultra premium coffee; one would enjoy drinking mug after mug. Brazil has the appropriate dry and wet weather to successfully grow perfect coffee beans. Coffee from Brazil is a product of the labor of experienced farmers who hand pick the ripe cherry red beans in the right season. These beans are then washed under natural spring water and spread in thin layers under the sun for drying. Once it has achieved the desired dryness, the coffee from Brazil is packed for shipment. Naturally drying these red cherries keeps them in contact with the sweet mucilage which would later produce sweet, smooth and complex heavy bodied South American coffee beans. Hand picked, spring washed and sun dried, are the natural processes this gourmet coffee, Brazil "Baggio" Platinum, undergoes. The coffee produced in the estate of Baggio’s maintains the family tradition of producing only the best gourmet coffee beans.
http://www.sbsteas.com/Brazil-Baggio-Platinum-pr-2326.html

Our second choice is Espresso de Brazil. Espresso culture has been a hit in Brazil since the days of "Flying Down to Rio" in the early Thirties. Here is a smooth, hearty pure Brazilian treat. Try it black and sweet with some of our purple haze sugar.
http://www.sbsteas.com/Espresso-do-Brazil-pr-2327.html

We hope you will enjoy our second stop around the world and we look forward to seeing you and your coffee cup next month!

Happy Grinding!