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When it comes to Santos, Brazil, in addition to the football team, I believe many people will associate coffee. Santos is a port located in southeastern Brazil. In the past, generic coffee from different provinces was exported with the name of the port, and unknown importers promoted Santos as a coffee variety. Similar confusion occurred in the Yemeni port of Mocha.

Brazil is Latin America's largest country and the world's largest coffee producer for the past 150 years. A third of the world's coffee comes from Brazil, followed by Vietnam, Colombia and Indonesia. The annual production of Minas Gerais in the south-east alone (20 million bags) exceeds the national capacity of neighbouring Colombia (about 10 million bags). In addition, Sao Paulo, Espírito Santo, Bahia and so on are also fine coffee producing areas. Sul de Minas (Minas Gerais South) has won 90% of the top 20 prizes in the Cup of Excellence (COE) in the past two years.

But behind this record lies overexploitation and deforestation. A tropical rainforest nurtured by the Amazon River, rarely inhabited for thousands of years. But since the 18th century, the economy of coffee exports has led Brazil's primitive ecology to become a mechanized agricultural workshop. The story begins with a colonel seducing the French viceroy's wife in 1723 and obtaining seeds. After black slavery and later European immigration, Brazil's coffee production capacity once reached half of the world's demand. But with the subsequent collapse of commodity markets and the "soil fatigue"(as Brazilian farmers put it) caused by excessive grain production, farmers have changed their targets from quantity to quality, coinciding with the rise of the boutique movement in recent years.

Intense cocoa flavor into Italian formula bean darling

In terms of planting environment, Brazil has few highlands above 3000 feet, and the lack of volcanic soil is actually not conducive to coffee cultivation. Early dispersal depended on the immediate availability of nutrients from uncultivated Terra Roxa and incinerated virgin forests. Therefore, Brazil coffee acid is not strong, but strong cocoa and nut flavor, coupled with the mellow taste, make Brazil coffee become the darling of Italian formula beans. Brazil is also a common base coffee, whether chain or boutique.

Beanseed research since the 1930s

Due to congenital constraints, the Brazilian government has invested considerable resources since the 1930s to improve varieties and disease resistance. Among them, the results of bean seed research still influence the cultivation habits of Latin America. For example, in the 1930s they bred Yellow Bourbon, a natural variety of Bourbon, out of a chance of one in a million, in the 1940s they discovered Caturra (Bourbon variety), and later Mundo Novo (artificial hybrid of Typica & Bourbon), Catuaí (artificial hybrid of Mundo Novo & Caturra), Icatu (with Robosta lineage) in the 1990s, and the less common Acaiá (hybrid of Mundo Novo). Most of the Central American countries are selected from the above list of suitable varieties planted. When my friends encounter problems, they mostly turn to their Brazilian counterparts for advice. Consórcio Pesquisa Café was established in 1997 by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and its Academic Research Institute to further specialize in coffee cultivation, disease resistance research and harvesting. Genoma Café, established in 2002, is a pioneer in coffee genetic mapping.

The Cup of Excellence (COE) competition, formerly known as Best of Brazil, represents the fine sports. Since 1999, 12 countries have participated. In the past, COE only accepted non-sun coffee, but since Brazilian coffee is mostly sun treated and farmers have improved their mastery of this technology, since 2012, the conference has held a "Late Harvest" competition specially designed for sun coffee. In this year's competition, Yellow Bourbon took six of the top 10 Early Harvest prizes, while Yellow Catuaí took three. As for the solarization group, Catuaí dominated, accounting for 8 places. The rest was won by Acaiá. It can be seen that the advantages of different bean species will be brought into full play due to proper treatment.

Suggested parameters: filter cup V60, grinding degree small Fuji 4 scale, water temperature 88°, powder-water ratio 1:14,15 g powder brewing 225 g water, total brewing time 2 minutes