Brazil Mogiana Queen Estate Natural Process COE Premium Coffee Beans: Grading, Pricing, Green Beans and Roasting

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Product Information

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee

Address: No. 10, Bao'an Front Street, Yandun Road, Dongshankou, Guangzhou

Contact: 020-38364473

Shelf Life: 90 days

Net Weight: 227g

Packaging: Bulk

Coffee Bean State: Roasted coffee beans

Sugar Content: Sugar-free

Origin: Brazil

Roast Level: Medium roast

Brazil Fazenda Rainha COE Natural Yellow Bourbon

Country: Brazil

Grade: COE

Region: Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha)

Fazenda Rainha, or Queen Farm, lies in the Alta Mogiana region of São Paulo state, north of São Paulo city. The farm is highly regarded in Brazil and belongs to the Carvalho Dias family, which owns four major farms that have won awards every year since the first Brazil COE competition in 1999, collecting more than 12 awards in 7 years. In 2004 the family even swept the top places, taking 1st, 9th and 11th. Many large and small farms across Brazil have hoped for years to be named winners, yet this family's four farms have consistently carried home multiple awards. Fazenda Rainha's own record is impressive: 2nd place in 2000, 3rd place in 2001 and 29th place in 2005. To date, Fazenda Rainha has won awards three times. FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Fazenda Rainha Yellow Bourbon beans are inherently sweet and clean; natural, or semi-natural, processing reduces the acidity slightly while combining it beautifully with the sweetness, bringing out tropical fruit aromas.

Set in the high-altitude part of São Paulo state near the Minas border, at elevations from 1,400 to 1,950 meters, the farm receives abundant annual rainfall of more than 1,800 mm without suffering devastating floods. The average annual temperature is only 19°C, which slows the fruit slightly but lets it develop sufficient density. Production is lower, yet the aroma and flavor are unparalleled by typical Brazilian highland coffees. The farm grows mainly Bourbon varieties, including some trees more than 110 years old.

Brewing Instructions

To brew FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Fazenda Rainha as a pour-over: use 15g of coffee ground to a medium fineness (Fuji ghost-tooth grinder setting 4) in a V60 dripper, with water at 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water and let it bloom for 27 seconds. Continue pouring to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops halfway, then pour slowly until the total reaches 225g. Discard the last portion. The water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, and total extraction time is 2:00.

Roast Level: Medium roast

Processing Method: Natural

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Farm: Fazenda Rainha

Flavor Notes: Lemon, sugarcane, black tea, smooth and delicate

Fazenda Rainha's Coffee Processing System

Ripe cherries are hand-picked into cloth bags so they never touch the ground, and cherries harvested on a given day always go to the farm's processing facility the same day for pulped natural processing. Hand-picking and cloth-bag collection prevent earthy flavors and any improper fermentation. When the cherries arrive, they are immediately "washed": cleaned thoroughly, with unqualified or dried fruits screened out by bean size. Qualified beans move on to depulping in a pulper machine.

After depulping, some mucilage still clings to the parchment. At this stage the beans, mucilage and all, are spread on patios to dry until moisture content drops to around 20%. This stage lets the beans absorb their own starch components while avoiding the drawback of full natural processing, where drying-related flavors are hard to control. Those residual starches from the mucilage create a special sweetness without tipping into uncontrolled overripe fruit or moldy notes.

The beans then go to drying machines for final drying, bringing moisture content to 11% before being moved into storage to rest. Before export they are hulled and graded. This segmented pulped natural method is one of the main reasons Fazenda Rainha's flavor stays so consistent. Insisting on Bourbon varieties, of course, is another reason for its fine reputation.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Fazenda Rainha Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon

Country: Brazil, Region: Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha)

Farm Name: Fazenda Rainha

Owner: Regina Helena Mello de Carvalho Dias, of the Carvalho Dias family

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Processing Method: Hand-picked, then pulped natural processing

Harvest Period: Latest harvest arriving May 2006

FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha) Coffee Bean Details

Origin: Brazil, Fazenda Rainha (Mogiana) region

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Altitude: 1,400 - 1,950 m

Processing Method: Pulped Natural

From Brazil's Fazenda Rainha, FrontStreet Coffee's farm-grade Yellow Bourbon delivers full, mature sweetness with rich fruit notes and a lasting aftertaste that earns unanimous praise. Whether used for American-style drip coffee or as the sweet core of an espresso blend, professional experts are satisfied with it and treat it as an essential purchase for their coffee inventory. Its sweetness is ripe rather than sugary, and the fruit notes sit on top of a soft, rounded body instead of a sharp, pointed acidity.

FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Fazenda Rainha Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon beans are sweet and clean. The pulped natural method, also called semi-washed, leaves the acidity slightly bright yet complemented by tropical fruit aromas. The aroma that fills the room during brewing is especially delightful.

Farm Introduction

Fazenda Rainha belongs to the renowned Carvalho Dias family and has been in operation for more than 116 years. The family are also founding members of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association, and their commitment to coffee quality and environmental protection is plain for all to see. On their family farms they harness natural waterfalls to generate pollution-free hydroelectric power, making themselves self-sufficient in electricity; another of their award-winning farms is named after that waterfall, Waterfall Farm. They have built churches, classrooms, nurseries and medical stations, and they insist on preserving the original native forest while reforesting continuously. At Fazenda Rainha, environmental care is especially thorough: the altitude is high and the terrain is not flat, so machines cannot be used for harvesting and every cherry is picked by hand. The family also grows low-yield, high-quality Bourbon varieties, which makes the estate a fine representative of Brazil's premium coffee tradition.

Related Knowledge

The Cup of Excellence (COE) program and its trademark are owned and managed by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), a non-profit organization based in the United States. Each year ACE works with the host countries of the Cup of Excellence cupping competition to complete the cupping selection and online auction of specialty coffees, while also recommending and promoting anything related to coffee quality improvement. The aim is to identify exemplary specialty coffees in the host countries and to exchange experience so the industry can learn from them. In practice, host countries run national competitions in which every lot is cupped by an international jury, and only the highest-scoring coffees advance to the online auction, where roasters from around the world bid on them. A COE placing is therefore one of the clearest signals of quality a farm can earn, and it explains why the Carvalho Dias family's long run of awards carries so much weight in the market.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Fazenda Rainha Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon Coffee Flavor

The beans are sweet and clean. Pulped natural processing leaves the acidity slightly bright yet beautifully married to the sweetness, and some lots even show tropical fruit aromas. The aroma that overflows during brewing is especially delightful: delicate lemon acidity, the fresh sweetness of sugarcane juice, black tea, and a smooth, delicate mouthfeel.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

The beans described here are FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon, grown in Mogiana near South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil lets the cherries take up abundant nutrients and build a full aroma. The variety is the rare Yellow Bourbon, a mutation of Red Bourbon with a cleaner fruit character. Because Brazilian coffee is low in acidity and balanced in body, it also plays a leading role in FrontStreet Coffee's espresso blends: the Classic Blend with its heavy crema, the nutty Premium Blend, the balanced Black Cocoa Blend and FrontStreet Coffee's Commercial Blend made for coffee shops all contain Brazilian beans, and the Brazil component supplies chocolate and cream aromas along with a soft sweet-bitter-sour balance that keeps extraction stable.

If you pull it as espresso, keep the dose steady and watch the shot time rather than the color alone; Brazilian beans are forgiving, and a slightly longer ratio brings out the chocolate and nut sweetness instead of the roast.