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Brazil Yellow Bourbon Coffee Beans - Estate & Brand Recommendations

Super cost-effective natural process Bourbon variety coffee beans, affordable price with mellow flavor, worth trying!

Estate Introduction

This coffee comes from Fazenda Rainha (Queen Estate), which covers 280 acres and is located in an ancient volcanic valley in Brazil called Vale da Grama.

In 2011, the estate won the championship in Brazil's Cup of Excellence (COE) competition. Fazenda Rainha belongs to the renowned and respected Carvalho Dias family. The four major estates under Carvalho Dias have won awards every year since the first Brazil COE competition in 1999, winning more than 12 times in 7 years. In 2004, they even swept the championship, 9th place, 11th place, and so on, surpassing many large and small estates in Brazil.

For many years, many estates have hoped to be selected for awards but found it difficult to achieve. However, the estates under this family have won multiple awards year after year. Even Fazenda Rainha, which O'Sher purchased this time, has an impressive record: 2nd place in 2000, 3rd place in 2001, 29th place in 2005. To date, Queen Estate has won awards three times.

The Carvalho Dias family are also founding members of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association, and their commitment to coffee quality and environmental protection is evident. Within their family farms, they utilize natural waterfalls to develop pollution-free hydroelectric power, self-sufficiently meeting their electricity needs (another award-winning estate under the family is named after this waterfall - Waterfall Estate). They have built churches, classrooms, nurseries, medical stations, and insist on maintaining original forests with native flora and fauna as well as continuous reforestation. Taking Queen Estate as an example, environmental protection is quite thorough. Due to its higher altitude and non-plains terrain, machines cannot be used for harvesting - all fruits are picked completely by hand. They also grow low-yield, high-quality Bourbon varieties, making it a representative estate of premium Brazilian coffee essence!

Queen Estate's Coffee Processing System

Mature cherry fruits are hand-picked into cloth bags to avoid falling on the ground and contacting soil. Coffee fruits harvested on the day must be sent to the estate's processing facility on the same day for pulped natural processing. Using hand-picking and cloth bags for harvested coffee fruits avoids earthy flavors and any improper fermentation. When these harvested coffee fruits arrive at the processing facility, they immediately undergo "washing": the coffee fruits are washed clean, and unqualified or dried fruits (bóia beans) are screened out based on bean size. The qualified beans that pass screening continue to undergo pulping (using a pulper machine).

The estate has 200 acres of Yellow Bourbon coffee trees. The rolling mountainous terrain makes large-scale mechanical harvesting impossible, so all coffee here needs to be hand-picked.

The estate uses the pulped natural processing method, followed by drying on drying racks and mechanical roasting. After mechanical screening, manual screening is also required. The large amount of work requires farm employees to live on the farm year-round. All employees and their families can enjoy benefits in housing, healthcare, and education here.

The estate is a member of a medium-sized farm organization in the local Grama Valley, mainly exporting specialty coffee of the Bourbon variety. The organization's office is located in nearby Pocos de Caldas, and they also have a national cupping laboratory equipped with a large warehouse. The organization also collaborates with local universities and other institutions on research, including Lavras University - the famous Dr. Flavio Borem comes from this university's Agricultural Research Center.

Queen Estate Award Records:

• 2014 COE Cup of Excellence - 13th Place
• 2013 COE Cup of Excellence - 2nd Place
• 2012 COE Cup of Excellence - 8th Place
• 2011 COE Cup of Excellence - Champion
• 2010 COE Cup of Excellence - 20th Place
• 2009 COE Cup of Excellence - 6th Place
• 2008 COE Cup of Excellence - 14th Place

Related Knowledge

The Cup of Excellence (COE) project and trademark are currently owned and managed by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), a non-profit organization from the United States. ACE works with COE project (cupping competition) host countries each year to complete the cupping selection and online auction of specialty coffees, while also recommending and promoting anything related to coffee quality improvement. The goal is to select exemplary specialty coffees in host countries and exchange experiences for industry learning.

Brazil Queen Estate

• Country: Brazil, Region: São Paulo state near São Sebastião da Grama
• Estate Name: Fazenda Rainha (Queen Estate)
• Owner: Regina Helena Mello de Carvalho Dias, belonging to the Carvalho Dias family
• Variety: Yellow Bourbon
• Processing: Hand-picked, then pulped natural processing
• Origin: Brazil Queen Estate (Mogiana) region
• Variety: Yellow Bourbon
• Altitude: 1400-1950m
• Processing Method: Pulped natural/Natural
• Flavor: Sweet beans, clean, pulped natural processing makes its acidity slightly bright but well-balanced with sweetness, some even have tropical fruit aromas

This coffee bean is 100% Yellow Bourbon variety, whose origin can be traced back to Bourbon's birthplace - Reunion Island in Madagascar. In the 18th century, French explorers first brought coffee here, so this variety has another name: French Missionary. In the 20th century, it was brought to the African continent, and then introduced to Brazil. Its derivative varieties are now spread throughout Africa and America. The Bourbon variety grown in Brazil shows yellow fruits due to the influence of recessive genes.

The processing method of this coffee bean uses the Cerezadescascado method (depulping method) invented in Brazil. This natural processing method, similar to honey processing, makes the coffee flavor rounder, with effects between washed processing and full natural processing. During processing, a small amount of water is first used to remove pulp and skin, then the coffee is directly placed on drying racks for sun-drying, with constant turning to ensure all coffee contacts sunlight. After several days of drying, mechanical drying is performed to achieve appropriate moisture content.

The processed coffee beans have relatively stable properties and can be stored for a long time. The moisture content is lower, and the coffee beans are relatively large, with 98% of beans reaching size 16 or above, and half reaching size 18.

↑ Green beans have a very rich fermented berry aroma when smelled

Bourbon Coffee Bean Roasting Analysis

The green beans have a solid texture and excellent flavor performance, with slight orange peel and spice notes.

Green bean moisture content: 9.9%

This bean has relatively low moisture content, which makes its heat absorption capacity strong. Therefore, the roasting plan is to start at 200°C, then use high heat and low air flow to speed up dehydration. After the dehydration stage ends, use medium air flow and medium heat for the Maillard reaction, without rushing the time, and finish near the end of first crack.

After trial roasting 4 times, the optimal choice was determined to be between 1 minute 45 seconds and 2 minutes after the end of first crack. The flavor has obvious sweetness, but not boring sweetness, with a faint lemon aroma in the background, which is more prominent in the wet aroma stage. The later stage shows obvious dark chocolate flavor, with an overall rounded feeling, embodying the characteristics of Brazilian coffee while maintaining liveliness.

Batch size: 550g

Cupping

• Dry Aroma: Roasted hazelnut, cinnamon
• Wet Aroma: Slight tropical fruit aroma, cream, cane sugar
• Flavor: Delicate nutty flavor, fruity, creamy peanut

Pour-over Record:

Reference

Brazil Queen Estate. 15g coffee, medium grind (Fuji Royal鬼齿刀 #4), V60 dripper, 88-89°C water temperature. First pour 30g water for 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and stop. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half before pouring again. Slowly pour until reaching 225g. Discard the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Flavor

Sweet beans, clean, pulped natural processing makes its acidity slightly bright but well-balanced with sweetness, some even have tropical fruit aromas, especially the overflowing aroma during brewing, which makes people love it more. Fresh sweetness of sugarcane juice, black tea, mellow fruit sweetness, obvious nutty flavor, balanced and smooth acidity, weak and clean bitterness, with rich chocolate aroma and nutty flavor, bright and refreshing taste, smooth and delicate texture.

Bourbon Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

The Brazil natural Yellow Bourbon coffee beans roasted by FrontStreet Coffee have full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, the cost-performance ratio is extremely high. A half-pound (227g) package costs only about 85 yuan. Calculated at 15g per cup, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup costing less than 6 yuan. Compared to the tens of yuan per cup sold in coffee shops, this is a conscientious recommendation.

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