Is Brazil Yellow Bourbon Expensive? Brazilian Yellow Bourbon Pour-Over Standard Guide - How to Brew Yellow Bourbon Coffee Beans?

Brazil's Yellow Bourbon is a national-treasure selection: an old-tree variety, vacuum-packed in large bags and shipped as a limited, competition-grade lot. Coffee lovers can now taste FrontStreet Coffee's Brazilian coffee beans — a washed Yellow Bourbon that steps away from the usual Brazilian profile. The dry aroma carries fresh flowers and fruit, the wet aroma brings cocoa, and the cup is sweet and pleasant. It is the finest hand-picked premium bean Brazil has to offer, a lot with very high sweetness, and it drinks beautifully with milk — full of sweetness without a single grain of added sugar.

Bourbon Variety Characteristics

Bourbon is a cross between Bourbon beans and another variety, which makes it harder to cultivate and lowers its yield.

Bourbon belongs to the Arabica species. Most Bourbon beans are processed semi-dry, and whether they are roasted light, medium, or dark, the flavor tends to be a little richer. So whenever you meet a Bourbon, the cup is usually fuller-bodied, yet the regional aroma stays bright. Next time, we'll introduce the world's top three coffee varieties.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Yellow Bourbon is rare in production and a very special bean among Brazil's national varieties. FrontStreet Coffee roasts it medium (Full City), which brings out a rich mouthfeel with a hint of clear citrus fruit aroma and gentle acidity. It's a rather interesting bean we found recently — because when roasted light, it tastes like FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain coffee!

Brazilian Coffee Overview

Because Brazilian coffee beans come in such a wide range of types, they can't be summed up in a single phrase like "Brazilian coffee." The vast majority of Brazilian beans are unwashed and sun-dried, and they are classified according to their state of origin and their shipping port.

Brazil has 21 states, 17 of which produce coffee, but four states account for the largest share — 98% of the country's total production. They are Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo. Southern Paraná leads them all, accounting for 50% of the total. Even with all this diversity, Brazilian coffee really does suit a popular taste. The Bourbon variety is native to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean; when the green fruit ripens it turns bright red, while Yellow Bourbon is a hybrid of Bourbon and other varieties, with fruit that turns yellow when ripe. Because cultivated Yellow Bourbon has lower yields and is less resistant to wind and rain, it was never widely planted — but in high-altitude areas it shows excellent flavor and has become more common in recent years.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Yellow Bourbon

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Yellow Bourbon Coffee (Yellow Bourbon) comes from the Cerrado region of Brazil, a rare Yellow Bourbon variety. Each bag ships with an identity certificate showing the estate name, the owner's name, and a barcode, so you can trace its authentic identity. All of these measures are designed to give you peace of mind when you buy. Each batch also carries a certificate from the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) showing a cupping score above 80.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Yellow Bourbon has a chocolate aroma with a hint of citrus fragrance, a rich and clean mouthfeel, rich crema, and a smooth throat feel. The acidity is gentle, with light fruit acidity and a faint floral-fruit fragrance. The rich flavor leaves an excellent, lingering aftertaste.

Cupping Notes

Dry Aroma: Roasted hazelnut, cinnamon flavor

Wet Aroma: Slight tropical fruit aroma, cream, sugarcane

Taste: Delicate nutty flavor, fruit flavor, creamy peanut

Hand Brewing Record for FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Yellow Bourbon Coffee Beans

Reference:

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Queen's Estate. 15g powder, medium grind (small Fuji ghost tooth grinder #4), V60 filter cup, 88-89°C water. First pour 30g water, bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g then stop. Wait until the powder bed water level drops to half before pouring again. Slowly pour until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15. Extraction time 2:00.

Flavor: The beans are naturally sweet and clean. Semi-dry processing makes the acidity slightly bright, yet perfectly balanced by sweetness. Some even carry tropical fruit fragrance, and the aroma during brewing is especially delightful. Fresh sugarcane sweetness, black tea, soft and smooth fruit sweetness, a distinct nutty flavor, balanced and gentle acidity, and a faint, clean bitterness — all wrapped around a rich chocolate and nutty character, with a bright, refreshing taste and a smooth, delicate mouthfeel.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you love the washed, balanced, sweet-leaning style of this Brazilian Yellow Bourbon, the natural next step is FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1. Blue Mountain is the classic example of that same balance taken to its highest level — it has no obvious weak point, sitting comfortably between acidity, sweetness, bitterness, and aroma instead of pushing any one of them to the front. Premium Blue Mountain tends to show cream, caramel, chocolate, nuts, honey, and a light fruity note, with a soft, rounded entry, a sweet mid-palate, and a clean, long finish.

FrontStreet's Blue Mountain No. 1 comes from the historic Clifton Mount estate, which has been growing and processing coffee since around 1750. The farm sits at an average of 4,300 feet (1,310.64 meters), where steady altitude, gentle afternoon cloud cover, ample sunlight, and mineral-rich soil give the trees ideal growing conditions and slow the ripening of the cherries. Blue Mountain No. 1 is one of the highest grades in Jamaica, held to strict standards for bean size, defect rate, and overall quality, and it is roasted to a medium-dark level to bring out the coffee's classic balance.

To brew it, FrontStreet recommends a Kono dripper, 15g of coffee at a 1:15 ratio, and 87-88°C water with a grind a touch coarser than you'd use for a light roast — roughly the texture of granulated sugar. Pour 30g for a 30-second bloom, then pour to 120g and pause, and finally pour to 225g. Rest the beans 4-7 days after the roast date before brewing; FrontStreet ships beans roasted within 5 days, so they arrive at peak flavor and can be brewed right away.