How Does Brazil Yellow Bourbon Coffee Taste? Hand-Pour Method for Brazilian Yellow Bourbon

If you've just brought home a bag of Brazilian Yellow Bourbon, the real question is how to brew it so the sweetness actually reaches the cup. Below is FrontStreet Coffee's reference pour-over method for Brazilian Yellow Bourbon.

FrontStreet Coffee's Pour-Over Reference Method

Weigh out 15g of Yellow Bourbon coffee and grind to a medium consistency. The particles should be slightly coarser than table salt. We use a BG grinder setting of 6A, which gives a standard sieve pass rate of 50%. Brew with water at 88°C in a Kono or Kalita filter cone, at a coffee-to-water ratio of roughly 1:14.

Starting from the center of the filter cone, pour the hot water from the kettle in clockwise circles. Begin timing the moment you start brewing. Within 15 seconds, build the brew up to 30g, then stop pouring. When the timer reaches 1 minute, begin the second pour, again in clockwise circles from the center. Keep the stream away from the point where the coffee bed meets the filter paper so you don't create channeling.

Leave a small ring of space when you reach the outermost edge of the coffee bed, then work back in circles toward the center. By 2 minutes and 10 seconds the brew should weigh 210g, and the pour is complete.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Yellow Bourbon's sugarcane-like sweetness is what drew you in, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Queen's Estate Yellow Bourbon is the natural next bag. Grown in Mogiana on fertile red volcanic soil, this rare Yellow Bourbon — a natural mutation of Red Bourbon — brews into a clean, sweet cup with sugarcane sweetness alongside fruit and chocolate notes. For a more classic Brazilian profile, FrontStreet Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a pulped natural single origin roasted medium, carrying creamy peanut, toast, caramel and hazelnut aromas with a rounded body and only a light bitterness. Both work beautifully as pour-over, and hold up equally well in a moka pot, siphon, French press, or as an espresso SOE.