Introduction of yellow Kaduai sun-dried beans in Minas Hilado-Joao Manor, Brazil

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Brazil Minas Hirado-Joao Manor Yellow Kaduai Sun Bean

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world, accounting for about 33% of coffee production, but because Brazil is located in tropical rain forest areas with relatively flat terrain and few high-altitude mountain forests, most coffee is grown in low-altitude non-volcanic soil areas. And there is not much shade for shading, resulting in the disadvantage that Brazilian beans grow too fast, but the shape of beans is very large, but the density and soft flavor of coffee does not change much. Coupled with the large-scale machine harvesting of coffee beans with a wide range of maturity differences in coffee harvesting at the same time, the quality of Brazilian beans is not particularly suddenly used in the category of commercial or Dazong beans.

After 2000, due to the international auction held by the COE International Coffee Cup Test, coffee farmers have this incentive to strive to produce high-quality coffee. The quality of coffee beans produced in the high altitude areas of the south has been well appreciated, mainly by the farms around the Minas high platform, and the coffee quality is also the largest output of Brazilian beans. For example, Minas is synonymous with Brazilian boutique coffee, such as Syracuse in the west of Minas and Matas in the east, Bashiya in the north or small farms in the south. In recent years, coffee is so accurate that it is separated by treatment (water treatment, half-washing, half-sun, sun-drying). These methods have developed a variety of flavor, taste and finish in improving the characteristics of Brazilian coffee, which is quite different from traditional Brazilian coffee. In particular, half-sun method and half-water washing beans and sun method perform best, which will increase the aroma of cleaner, low-acid fruit and reduce the rich chocolate flavor of the coffee.

Located at 1200 meters above sea level in Minas Gerais, Cerrado Mineiro, west of Minas, Joao Manor is much higher than the average growth height of other Brazilian beans. It is a large coffee farm dried by natural sun drying of yellow Yellow Catuai coffee species, but the planting scale of Joan Manor is much smaller than that of nearby Aurea Manor. Coffee grows on the platform and is ready to be sold overseas by machine harvesting. It is traditionally believed that there are no excellent coffee beans harvested by machine, but it is rare to harvest coffee by machine in the high altitude plains, which makes me change my mind by machine harvesting. High altitude machine harvesting makes coffee beans stable and is an excellent formula coffee base, in order to ensure the consistent quality of coffee and avoid defective beans during sun treatment. Most of the coffee will be harvested when it is ripe. This is the second time in 2010 that Direct Coffee has selected the new beans harvested in June from Joao Manor, and for the first time as the formula beans of Mamba Coffee.

Light baking end (City): Brazil Joao Manor Yellow Cadura sun beans in the shallow baking after grinding to give off a strong drupe aroma, boiled wet aroma with fermented black tea, sweet malt, yellow and orange acidity is not strong low acidity, clean and balanced taste complexity is not high, the aftertaste cup has pleasant fruit sweet.

Re-roasting second explosion (Full City): the whole cup of coffee is between caramel and chocolate, sweet, moist and balanced without bitterness, the acidity leaves only sweetness during re-baking, the roasting aroma of cocoa chocolate dominates the style and aftertaste of coffee, it is very suitable to match with other coffee to become a formula coffee to do espresso.

Cup test date: 2010.10.25

Dry aroma: 9

Wet aroma: 8

Clean: 7

Brightness: 8

Palate: 9

Balance: 8

Complexity: 7

Sweetness: 9

Acid quality: 8

Yu Yun: 8

Cup test score: 81

Overall comments: Brazilian Chateau Joan Manor Yellow Cadura sun beans have more suitable acidity and clean and balanced taste than Brazilian coffee in light roasting, and there is no fruit flower aroma of over-fermented East African sun beans. there is a good fruit aroma in the mellow taste and chocolate caramel aroma during heavy baking. This coffee can be espresso with any degree of roasting, and can be well paired with other coffee is only coffee beans that can be roasted in a variety of ways.