Brazil Sitio Embira
$ 19.00
Brazil! As a single origin!
Feels kinda strange to say that, to be honest. Brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer by a longshot, and while it's always played a role at Huckleberry, it's usually been a utilitarian one. With relatively low altitudes and a coffee industry that prioritizes productivity over cup quality, your stereotypical Brazil - if it's a good one - is low in acidity and overall pretty mellow in flavor. And while some of the farmers are undoubtedly great people, Brazil's coffee industry is steeped in its colonial past, dominated by huge farms, owned primarily by families of European descent.
Not necessarily the type of coffee we usually seek out for our single origin lineup, but good, basic Brazils have always formed an important building block in Blue Orchid, Sound and Vision, and cold brew.
This year though, we're offering two Brazils we think rise way above the tide in the country, and can thank Phyllis Johnson and Miriam Aguiar for bringing these to our attention and raising the bar. Phyllis owns BD Imports in the US, and has been one of the major forces pushing for increased diversity in the coffee industry. And Miriam runs Apara Coffees, an exporter focused on developing coffee and sustainable practices at smaller farms in the Minas Gerais region in Brazil. Together, they've been working to highlight female and black Brazilians in coffee, and have given us the chance to taste and roast some wonderful coffees. More often than not, these gems would have been blended into large, untraceable, regional lots.
The more adventurous of the two coffees we're highlighting this year comes from the Româo family and their farm, Sitio Embira. Luis Româo worked on others' coffee farms in his youth, but spent much of his adult life as a bricklayer. Luis returned to coffee through a stroke of luck, entering a church raffle and winning the money he needed to move back to the countryside and purchase the land for Sitio Embira. Several years in, Luis manages the farm, while his wife Edelaine and son Diego manage processing, drying the farm's natural-process coffee on raised beds, an exceedingly rare setup in Brazil.
Sitio Embira produces coffee that's far from your typical Brazil - this ain't mellow at all. We're tasting big fruit - concord grape and raspberry, red wine-like acidity, and a pastry-like sweetness in our mugs.
For the first time, we're truly excited about coffees from Brazil, and are excited to partner with Phyllis and Miriam to highlight a more diverse group of farmers. While we haven't been super enthused about Brazil in the past, we're thankful to be proven wrong, in the best way possible.
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Photos courtesy Isabela Lobato and BD Imports
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Brazil! As a single origin!
Feels kinda strange to say that, to be honest. Brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer by a longshot, and while it's always played a role at Huckleberry, it's usually been a utilitarian one. With relatively low altitudes and a coffee industry that prioritizes productivity over cup quality, your stereotypical Brazil - if it's a good one - is low in acidity and overall pretty mellow in flavor. And while some of the farmers are undoubtedly great people, Brazil's coffee industry is steeped in its colonial past, dominated by huge farms, owned primarily by families of European descent.
Not necessarily the type of coffee we usually seek out for single origin, but good, basic Brazils have always formed an important building block in Blue Orchid, Sound and Vision, and cold brew.
This year though, we're offering two Brazils we think rise way above the tide in the country, and can thank Phyllis Johnson and Miriam Aguiar for bringing these to our attention and raising the bar for Brazil. Phyllis owns BD Imports in the US, and has been one of the major forces pushing for increased diversity in the coffee industry. And Miriam runs Apara Coffees, an exporter focused on developing coffee and sustainable practices at smaller farms in the Minas Gerais region in Brazil. Together, they've been working to highlight female and black Brazilians in coffee, and have given us the chance to taste and roast some wonderful coffees. More often than not, these gems would have been blended into large, untraceable, regional lots.
Sitio Santo Antonio is the more comforting of the two Brazilian coffees we're highlighting this year, and comes to us from the Peixoto family. The Peixotos are a group of 6 brothers plus their extended families, who started their coffee journey as sharecroppers - a common role in the industry for black Brazilians. Over the years, they saved up enough money to collectively buy 44 hectares of land, becoming one of the few families in the country to work their way up from sharecropping to farm ownership.
From the start, the Peixotos have focused on quality, separating their coffee by variety, and building a cupping lab on their farm to hone in on best farming and processing practices. We're lucky to roast this Yellow Catucaí lot as a single origin coffee, and are also featuring a few other coffees from the farm in our blends.
This coffee is just sweet and pleasant. Milk chocolate and graham cracker are the main flavors, backed up with a pleasant nuttiness, a hint of red pear fruitiness, and a tiny bit of florality. Drink your coffee with milk? This'll pair great. Drink it straight, and it'll be a sweet, unassuming, but rewarding cup. It'll also work great as a single origin espresso.
For the first time, we're truly excited about coffees from Brazil, and are excited to partner with Phyllis and Miriam to highlight a more diverse group of farmers. We haven't been super enthused about Brazil in the past, but are thankful to be proven wrong, in the best way possible.
*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions ***
Photos courtesy Isabela Lobato and BD Imports
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Raro Nansebo is our final natural Ethiopia of the the 2020 harvest, and we're closing the season with a bang! This coffee is juicy, fruity, and just hella delicious, with big flavors of mixed berry jam, chocolate, tropical fruit, and florality that only peaks through the fruit in the best of naturals.
Ture Waji has become a pretty big name in the world of Ethiopian coffee, gaining well-earned notoriety for producing some of the country's best naturals for the last several harvests. Ture and his family - primarily cousins Eegata and Fedhesa - own and operate Sookoo Coffee. Sookoo means gold in the Guji region's Afaan Oromo language, and Sookoo Coffee focuses exclusively on naturals - no washed coffees, just coffee dried in its fruit. And that focus pays off.
Raro Nansebo is Sookoo's second station, and brand new for the 2019-2020 harvest. After making a name for themselves with the Odo Shakisso station a bit further west in Guji, Sookoo expanded into the Guji Uraga area, building the Raro Nensebo station and working with smallholder farmers in the surrounding area. No learning curve here, the first harvest is phenomenal.
Big fruit is the big draw in most naturals, and the florality we love in washed Ethiopias often gets masked by the berries. In the best cases though - like this gem from Raro Nansebo - floral aromatics get to join the fruit punch. We're stoked on this first lot from Raro Nansebo, and are already looking forward to more great coffee from Ture and fam's 2020-2021 harvest.
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This year, before coronavirus turned our world upside-down, we traveled to Guatemala with a crew of Huckleberry baristas for the first time ever. Keep your eyes peeled for some fresh video content! As always, it's a pleasure to spend time with the team at AProCafé, and sharing that experience with our own team made it even more special. Every time we visit we're blown away by AProCafé's hard work, dedication to organic farming and preserving the environment, and the farmers' eagerness to both welcome us and work towards improving their coffee.
We've been roasting coffee from AProCafé el Grano since 2015, and have been working hands-on with these growers since day one. Several years ago we worked with the group to develop their first single farmer microlot program, and each year, have used a portion of proceeds from our holiday Sister Winter blend to help the group with a variety of projects. AProCafé has used Sister Winter funds to purchase and apply organic-approved leaf rust prevention treatments, to build raised drying beds to improve coffee processing, and this year we purchased Brix meters for the group, to help picking coffee cherries at their optimal ripeness.
While we’ll have special single farm microlots from a few farmers in the group, the main lots from AProCafé are equally special. We're tasting red apple, hazelnut (we would've put Nutella on the bags if we legally could), plum, and caramel in this year's crop - Atitlán el Grano is back for year six, and as always, is dependably sweet and delicious!
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