Whole Bean Coffee
Process: Swiss Water Decaf
Cinnamon, Raisin, Dates
The Swiss Water Process uses pure green coffee extract and proprietary carbon technology to remove caffeine from green coffee beans. Swiss Water has specified the pore size of the carbon to match the caffeine molecule to ensure only the caffeine is trapped when the caffeine is captured from the green coffee extract.
12 oz bag of whole bean coffee
Process: Natural
chocolate, cashew, toast
Denise Aparecida Pereira is a second-generation coffee producer, whose recently established 25-hectare farm is located in the Minas Gerais region.
American colonists had been drinking coffee for fifty years before the first coffee seed was planted in Brazil in 1727. A hundred years later, Brazil accounted for 30% of the world’s coffee supply. A hundred years after that, in the 1920’s, Brazil held a virtual monopoly, producing 80% of the world’s coffee. Although Brazil’s market share peaked at 80% in the 1920’s, its continuing status as the world’s largest coffee producer still gives the country considerable influence on the market and coffee prices. It is said that when Brazil sneezes, the coffee world catches cold. In 1975, a “black frost” destroyed over 70 percent of the crop in Brazil and coffee prices doubled world-wide. Brazil was a founding member of the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, which invented the concept of a “coffee break,” during an advertising campaign in the early 1950’s.
Whole Bean Coffee
Process: Natural
Chocolate, Toffee, Pear
Smooth and chocolatey with a medium body, notes of toffee and pear.
Luis Otavio Turati is a third-generation coffee producer working in the reknowned Minas Gerais region, outside the city of Medieros. He assumed oversight of quality operations on the family farm, Novo Horizonte, from his agronomist father Jose Alfonso in 2020.
Whole Bean Coffee
[BRUH-ZIL • WAG-NER • FUH-RARE-OH]
Process: Natural
Cocoa, Sweet Bread, Vanilla Wafer
Delve into this sweet natural process Brazil. Smooth with notes of vanilla wafer and cocoa, this is truly a coffee for everyone.
The Cerrado Mineiro region, located in northwest of Minas Gerais State is a world-recognized, high-quality coffee producing origin. A strong characteristic of this region is its well-defined seasons—a hot, wet summer followed by a pleasantly dry winter.
Today, the area’s 4,500 farmers produce a combined average of 6 million bags per harvest, with an average of 35 bags per hectare. To reach these production levels, producers had to first adapt to the region’s conditions. Coffee farmers first arrived in Cerrado in the 1970’s, after being pushed out of the state of Parana by frost and out of the state of São Paulo by nematodes. They found the soil in Cerrado to be very acidic, which they rectified with the application of calcium to create the healthy soils they enjoy today.
Cerrado coffee farms are cultivated in areas with elevations varying between 800 and 1,300 meters above sea level and are known for consistently producing high quality coffees with a repeatable profile. Independent of farm size, the spirit of professionalism is present throughout Cerrado’s coffee producers. Entrepreneurialism is part of farmers’ DNA, and many producers are second or third generation growers who also hold degrees in agronomic engineering, business management, and administration. While each family narrative is different, Cerrado is characterized by an enterprising attitude.
12 oz bag of whole bean coffee
Process: Natural
toffee, cocoa, peanut butter
This is the Cerrado Mineiro region of Minas Gerais; an area best described as a high-altitude savannah, and best known as the carrot capital of Brazil. In addition to producing nearly half of the country’s carrots, this region also grows onions, garlic, onion, potatoes….and coffee.
This is the story of Yuki Minami, who returned to her parent's farm to take up specialty. Long a specialty supplier in the region, Fazenda Santo Antonio has since invested in the field, in raised beds and in training as part of Yuki's so-far successful experiment of increasing quality to get better prices. In 2016 Yuki banded together with other farmers in her community - a group of third generation Brazilians of Japanese descent - to form Aequitas Coffee - with their first export being to Crop to Cup in 2018.
If it were not for Yuki we would not be able to work in Brazil for many moons to come. She has the fire, her heart is in it for the right reasons, and she’s sharp as can be. Her coffee is almost as impressive, maybe more so because it has so much further it can go. We are excited to support Yuki Minami and her neighbors, Edson Tamekuni and Michael Tomizawa, as they launch Aequitas – a company that’s set out to do coffee differently. In her words, “Aequitas is the Roman goddess of equity. But she was also a goddess that meant justice, transparency and fairness. And this is what I wanted to do, I wanted to promote a fair trade for producers.”