Coffee mellow Tour (24) Brazilian Coffee

Brazil is a country that cannot be bypassed in the coffee world. When you write about coffee, you have to talk about Brazilian coffee.

About Brazil, anyone can say something about this country: world-famous football and countless football stars; Amazon rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world; developing countries that cannot be ignored, one of the BRICs; Carnival. Too many amazing titles. The reputation of the world's number one coffee producer can not be ignored. Brazil is now the country with the largest coffee production and export in the world, and coffee production accounts for about 30% of the world's total output, so some people joke that "if Brazil does not produce coffee, then a large proportion of people in the world will have no coffee to drink". As soon as frost occurs in Brazil, coffee prices in the international coffee market will rise, which shows Brazil's influence in the coffee world. The coffee kingdom is worthy of the name.

(Brazilian Carnival)

(Brazilian star Kaka)

Africa, the hometown of coffee, and Ethiopia are not as influential as Brazil. How did a country that only started growing coffee in the 1820s do it?

Most of Brazil lies between 0 °and 25 °S, and between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer is the golden area of coffee cultivation in the world, known as the "coffee belt". Thanks to this unique geographical advantage, Brazil has the light, precipitation and climatic conditions needed for coffee growth, so coffee naturally grows vigorously.

Every year, coffee exports bring huge foreign exchange earnings to Brazil. with the strong support and development of the government, coffee is no longer a simple commodity to earn foreign exchange in a sense, coffee is more like a symbol of this country. People who often go to cafes must know or have heard of Brazilian coffee, even if they do not know Kona coffee, Puerto Rican coffee, Kenyan coffee, this is a national symbol.

Although the output ranks first in the world, the quality of coffee in Brazil is not very high. This is mainly because the altitude of Brazilian coffee is not very high, coupled with the poor soil, machine picking makes coffee raw beans of different quality, using dry refining, the treatment process is relatively extensive (although washing refined coffee has also begun to appear in recent years, but the overall quality of coffee is still not very high).

(a scene of coffee planting in Brazil)

What are the flavor characteristics of Brazilian coffee?

The aroma of Brazilian coffee is relatively light, but there are obvious flowers and dried fruit aromas in the aroma. Although vaguely, it makes people yearn for this enthusiastic South American country.

Brazilian coffee is low in acidity and sometimes doesn't even feel sour (except for a few high-grade beans). This is the personality of Brazilian coffee. Bitterness is more obvious against this background, but it is not similar to the bitterness of traditional Chinese medicine, but sweet and bitter, which brings out a beautiful sweet taste, just like life, bitterness before sweetness is more wonderful.

The aftertaste of Brazilian coffee is not long, but it feels very clear and refreshing in the mouth after drinking it. Suitable for blending mixed coffee. There seems to be no taste characteristic worth trying, but it is an indispensable and important base for balancing various coffee flavors to form a better coffee taste.

(Iguazu Falls)

Although the taste of Brazilian coffee is far less attractive than the name of the world's first-producing country, it is also a great contribution that coffee has developed so much in this country that more people have the opportunity to enjoy it. No wonder King Pele, who always does not endorse advertisements, endorses Brazilian coffee. Coffee is as proud of this country as football.