What Are the Brazilian Natural Bourbon Coffee Brands and Brazilian Coffee Brewing Steps

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Hand Pour-Over: FrontStreet Coffee's Brazilian Semi-Washed Bourbon

Use 15 g of coffee ground to a medium setting (Fuji ghost-tooth grinder at 4) in a V60 dripper, with water at 88-89°C. Start with a 30 g pour and bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105 g and pause, waiting until the water level in the coffee bed drops halfway before adding more water. Pour slowly until you reach 225 g total, avoiding the tail end. The water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, and extraction time is 2:00.

Bourbon Variety

Variety: Bourbon-related: original variety
Origin: Bourbon Island or Ethiopia
Grows best at: 800 meters and above
Type: Original variety
Commonly found in: Coffee-growing regions worldwide
Main color: Red, yellow, and orange fruit, but predominantly red
Fruit size: Average
Leaf characteristics: Broad, short
Special notes:

The Bourbon variety originates from Bourbon Island or Ethiopia. It is susceptible to pests and disease and yields relatively little. Some data suggests Yellow Bourbon outyields both Red and Orange Bourbon, though Red Bourbon remains the most common. Bourbon is closely related to SL28, Typica, and Caturra. Because it produces lower yields in suitable environments, it often cups at a very high level—lower yields tend to concentrate quality, since the plant can more efficiently draw nutrients from the soil.

Typical Bourbon cup characteristics include low body, balanced flavor, and pronounced sweetness, making it an excellent base bean for espresso blends.

Catuai Variety

Catuai is a variety created by artificially crossing Caturra with Mundo Novo. It stands up well to natural disasters, especially wind and rain.

Catuai trees are relatively short compared with other coffee trees. Their fruit grows more firmly and is harder to harvest. The fruit comes in both red and yellow types. To date, no evidence shows that yellow fruit tastes better than red; in fact, some cuppers have found that while coffee from yellow fruit may have good acidity, the cleanliness of its mouthfeel falls short of red fruit.

Catuai was first cultivated in Brazil and is now widely grown throughout Central America.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Dazhen Coffee FrontStreet Coffee
Address: No. 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf life: 30 days
Net weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk
Taste profile: Sweet coffee beans
Roast level: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar content: Sugar-free
Origin: Brazil
Coffee type: Bourbon coffee
Roast degree: Medium roast

Product name: FrontStreet Coffee · Brazilian Semi-Washed Bourbon

Origin Details

Country: Brazil
Grade: SC14/SC16
Region: Southern Minas
Roast degree: Medium roast
Processing method: Pulped natural
Varieties: Bourbon, Catuai
Altitude: 1000-1200 meters
Flavor notes: Roasted melon seeds, full-bodied, dark chocolate, sweet aftertaste with a lingering finish.

Brazil's Premium Coffee Regions

The Cerrado plateau in western Minas and Southern Minas mostly sit above 1100 meters, with rich topography, distinct wet and dry seasons, large day-night temperature swings, and abundant microclimates. These conditions suit elegantly flavored Bourbon and Yellow Bourbon, which is why these areas became Brazil's main premium coffee regions. Mogiana, in northeastern São Paulo state, also focuses on shade-grown Bourbon and ranks alongside Cerrado and Southern Minas as one of Brazil's three major premium regions.

Brazil's terrain is generally flat, and most coffee farms sit at altitudes around 600-1000 meters. The flat, monotonous topography lacks microclimates, and the traditional non-shade cultivation has produced Brazil's characteristic "soft bean" profile: low acidity, heavy nutty notes, chocolatey sweetness, good body, and slight woody and earthy notes, with floral and citrus aromas rarely prominent.

Minas Gerais state lies in the heart of the Brazilian plateau in southeastern South America and produces more than half of Brazil's high-quality Arabica coffee.

Santo Antônio do Amparo, which recently won the 2016 Brazil Cup of Excellence, belongs to the core of the Southern Minas producing area, near the headquarters of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA).

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you enjoy the rounded, low-acid sweetness of a Brazilian pulped natural, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazilian single origins are a natural match. FrontStreet Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic, medium-roasted Bourbon with creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut notes—smooth, barely acidic, with a light bitter finish—and it works in a pour-over, moka pot, siphon, French press, or as an espresso SOE.

For a rarer expression of the same gentle profile, FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon comes from Mogiana, where fertile red volcanic soil and a clean mutation of Red Bourbon yield a distinctive sugarcane sweetness alongside fruit and chocolate. Brazilian beans also anchor FrontStreet's espresso line, where they add chocolate and creamy aroma plus a soft sweet-sour balance to blends such as the Classic Blend, the Specialty Blend, and Black Cocoa.