Brazil Minas Gerais HIU Spring Estate Washed Yellow Catuai Grading, Price, Green Beans and Roast Level

Brazilian Coffee Overview

On some estates in the Cerrado region of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, growers cultivate old Bourbon and Yellow Catuai coffees. Although these estates share a region, each coffee shows its own character. Despite that diversity, Brazilian coffee suits popular tastes. As the largest producing country, its many grades and types account for one-third of global consumption, giving it a significant place in the world coffee trade. Brazil also faces natural disasters several times more often than other regions, but its available planting area is large enough to compensate.

Fazenda Primavera Yellow Catuai - Washed Processing

Flavor notes: orange, peanut, roasted rice tea, nuts, a caramel aftertaste, and the sweet-and-sour sensation of fresh orange juice, with a smooth texture and the typical character of Brazilian sun-dried coffee.

Yellow Catuai comes from a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra, first cultivated in 1949 by the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas in Brazil. Like Red Catuai (Catuai rojo), Yellow Catuai has extremely high disease resistance and is suited to high-altitude cultivation.

Hand Brew Recipe for Brazilian Fazenda Primavera

15g of coffee at a medium grind size (Fuji Royal grinder with ghost teeth #4), a V60 dripper, and water at 88-89°C. Begin with a 30g pour for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops halfway, then continue pouring slowly to 225g total. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: No. 10 FrontStreet Coffee, Bao'an Qianjie, Yandun Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf life: 90 days
Net weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast level: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar content: Sugar-free
Origin: Brazil

Brazil Primavera Washed Yellow Catuai

Country: Brazil
Estate: Fazenda Primavera
Region: Minas Gerais region
Roast level: Medium roast
Processing method: Washed
Variety: Yellow Catuai

Brazil HiU Micro Lot

The HiU program is a plan to improve coffee quality in Central and South America, proposed by Mr. Graciano Cruz of Panama, who is renowned for his honey processing method.

The program focuses on applying sun-drying or honey processing to micro lots, with final cupping scores exceeding 85 points to qualify for HiU certification. It creates a win-win situation for both estate owners and processors.

Flavor notes: Orange, nuts, roasted rice tea, peanuts

Although there are numerous coffee varieties here, industrial policy emphasizes quantity and affordability, so premium specialty coffees are not abundant. They are, however, excellent choices for blending with other coffees.

Brazilian Coffee Flavor Profile

Brazilian coffee combines low acidity with sweet bitterness and an extremely smooth mouthfeel, plus a subtle grassy aroma. Its light fragrance and slight bitterness create a sweet, smooth, pleasant taste and a refreshing aftertaste. Brazilian coffee has no particularly outstanding advantages but no obvious drawbacks either: mild and smooth, low in acidity, moderate in body, and subtly sweet. Balancing all of these gentle flavors is the best test of a palate's ability to pick out each individual note.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For a first look at the Brazilian style, FrontStreet Coffee's Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic single-origin choice. Cerrado is the country's best-known high-quality region, and the Red Bourbon variety here, roasted medium, shows rich creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut aromas, a round body, no acidity, and a light bittersweet edge. It works as pour-over, and equally in moka pot, espresso SOE, siphon, or French press.

The very different FrontStreet Coffee Queen's Manor comes from Mogiana, near South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil feeds the fruit. Its rare Yellow Bourbon - a natural mutation of Red Bourbon - gives a cleaner fruit character, and you can taste a sugarcane sweetness not found in other regions along with fruit and chocolate notes through pour-over, moka pot, or a home espresso machine.

Brazil's low-acid, balanced cup also makes it the backbone of many espresso recipes. FrontStreet's line of espresso blends - the rich-crema Classic Blend, the nutty Specialty Blend, the balanced Black Cocoa Blend, and FrontStreet Coffee's Commercial Blend built for busy cafes - all contain Brazilian beans. Their role is to add chocolate and creamy aroma, a soft sweet-sour-bitter balance, and the stability that comes from a well-rounded profile.