Alquimista is back this month along with the Cerrado Mineiro region and one of its most notable growers, Gabriel Nunes.
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This is an exciting time of the year for us at Casa Brasil Coffees. The harvest has ended, the coffees are rested, and it is time to determine which coffees we will bring to Austin this year. Our playlist this month is dedicated to that process.
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This month marks 201 years since Prince Pedro declared independence on the banks of the Ipiranga river. We celebrate Brazil's independence with classic songs that celebrate Brazil and the Brazilian way of life.
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Two centuries and a year ago, Prince Pedro I stood on the banks of the Ipiranga river and shouted Independência ou Morte! This month, we celebrate Brazil’s survival of the first option (independence).
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As the harvest comes to a close, it is time to prune the trees before the spring rains so new branches may grow, bringing new buds, new fruits, and new beans. We celebrate this with remakes of classic songs, from Dinho's orginal samba Pelo Telefone, to Pedro Infante's classic Cucurrucucu Paloma.
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This month we explore Brazil through post-harvest processing. After the coffee fruit is harvested, the bean—actually a seed—must be removed from the fruit and dried. How this is done varies and can greatly impact the flavor and quality of the roasted coffee. Our friends at Fazenda Recanto took a single lot of Yellow Catuai and processed it in three different ways, demonstrating the impact post-harvest processing can have on the final cup.
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This month we feature our most popular blend, Bossa Blend as a tribute to bossa nova pioneer Astrud Gilberto, who sadly passed away last month. We return to the Espírito Santo, to the Montanhas do Espírito Santo region and one of Brazil’s top coffee farms, Sítio dos Cedros.
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This month we feature the music of Astrud Gilberto, a Brazilian musical icon, who passed away last month at 83. With her delicate yet soulful voice, she soared to international fame through her timeless hit "The Girl from Ipanema” and largely defined how bossa nova music would be interpreted.
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This month we feature the coffees of our longtime friends and partners Alessandro Hervaz, Ademilson Noiman, and Augusto Borges. In 2016, we worked together with them to do something quite unique in Brazil: a selective harvest of only the ripe coffee fruits. The results have been amazing and they have performed a selective harvest every year since, picking up awards and gaining reputations as some of Brazil’s top coffee growers in the process.
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It’s June, which means it is Festa Junina time. Dust off your dancing puts, put on the flannel shirt, and dig into the some canjica and quentão.
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This month we break from our Brazilian Blend - Regional Blend - Microlot format to feature three special microlots from three of our longtime friends and partners: Ademilson Noiman, Alessandro Hervaz, e Augusto Borges.
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This month we keep it light with Bossa Nova covers of pop songs. Sit back, enjoy some Brazilian coffee, and let these Bossa Nova covers soothe you.
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This month we feature Poco Java, our Brazilian take on the classic Mocha Java, as well as the Alta Mogiana region and an award-winning coffee from Felipe Luiz Ramos de Carvalho.
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For over a century Fazenda Recanto has been producing high-quality coffees in Brazil’s Sul de Minas region, with each generation facing a unique set of challenges in an ever-changing industry and world. We sat down with Paula Magalhães Paiva to talk about the challenges she is facing, and how Recanto is preparing for the future.
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This month we feature the music of guitar virtuoso Yamandu Costa. Like our featured farm, Fazenda Recanto, Yamandu adds his unique touch and virtuosity to a long tradition.
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This April we Explore Brazil, One Cup at a Time, through the lens of tradition: The time-honored Brazilian cafezinho is our featured Brazilian Blend. One of Brazil’s most historic coffee-growing regions, the Sul de Minas, is our featured region. And our featured grower is the Magalhães Paiva family, whose legacy of coffee growing in the Sul de Minas dates back to 1896.
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From Mas, Que Nada! to Pais Tropical to Taj Mahal, it’s hard to imagine Brazilian music over the last 50 years without the music of Jorge Ben, who turns 84 this month.
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Deyvid Leandro is one of Brazil’s top “coffee makers,” the ones who, much like a winemaker, transform the realities of each coffee harvest into a unique portfolio of flavor profiles to meet an ever-changing market demand. This month we feature a lot of Catuai 99 from Deyvid’s own farm in Campos Altos, Fazenda Esperança. We sat down with Deyvid to talk about this year’s lot, and what he sees on the horizon for “coffee making” in the Cerrado Mineiro.
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This month we Explore Brazil with our Alqumista Blend, the Cerrado Mineiro region, and our partner Deyvid Leandro.
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The Iemanjá Festival is one of the main festivals of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. Iemanjá, sometimes spelled Yemanjá, is the Cadomblé goddess–or orixá–of the sea and the mother of many other orixás.
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