Loose roasted Brasil coffee – Sao Silvestre

This Award-winning coffee will be sent in a paper bag.

Minimum quantity 50g.

Farm: Sao Silvestre

Varietal: Yellow Icatú, Bourbon & Typica

Processing: Pulped Natural

Altitude: 1,250 metres above sea level

Owner: Andrade Brothers (Ismael & Eduardo Andrade)

Town / City: Serra do Salitre

The Andrade Brothers have farmed são Silvestre since 1991. It is located in the north of Minas Gerais, in an area known as the Cerrado Mineiro on the border with Bahia state. The farm’s volcanic soils provide ideal conditions for growing the farm’s main varieties – Yellow Icatú, Yellow Bourbon and Típica. The beans are harvested when ripe and prepared using the pulped natural process: the cherries are pulped, and the mucilage is left on the beans while they are dried. Depending on climatic conditions, the coffee is either totally sun-dried or completed in two stages where the beans are initially sun-dried, bringing the moisture content down to approximately 20%, and then finished in mechanical dryers, bringing the moisture content of the beans to a maximum of 12%.

After drying the coffee is stored in silos, still protected by the parchment or by the husk. After this period of rest, the coffee is milled and sorted before export. There is a BSCA standard cupping lab at the farm, where physical and sensorial analysis is carried out by qualified cuppers.

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