Characteristics, Flavor Profile, and Brewing Methods of Fazenda Bom Jardim Coffee Beans from Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fazenda Bom Jardim (Minas Gerais, Brazil): Characteristics, Flavor, and Brewing

These Brazilian beans come from Fazenda Bom Jardim, grown at 1300m on the Brazilian plateau.

Farm owner Vicente Faria has deliberately planted different species as windbreaks around the estate, helping to regulate the farm's sunlight, humidity, and soil conditions — and ultimately to enhance the flavor of the coffee.

The resulting cup shows full sweetness and a rich mouthfeel, with prominent caramel and honey notes complemented by subtle Earl Grey tea aromatics.

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Recommendations

Hand Brewing Brazilian Coffee [Minas Bom Jardim]

FrontStreet Coffee pour-over reference: dose 15g of [Minas Bom Jardim], ground to medium — slightly coarser than table salt. We recommend the BG grinder at setting 6A (50% standard sieve pass rate), water at 88°C, brewed on a Kono or Kalita dripper, at a coffee-to-water ratio of roughly 1:14.

Pour in circles from the center of the bed, starting your timer as you begin. Within the first 15 seconds, bring the brew up to 30g, then stop. At 1 minute, start the second pour — again clockwise circles from the center, taking care not to pour directly along the coffee-ground/filter-paper wall, which causes channeling.

Leave one ring of clearance at the outermost layer of grounds, then spiral inward. At 2 minutes 10 seconds the brew should reach 210g, and the brew is complete.

Japanese-Style Iced Brew [Minas Bom Jardim]

FrontStreet Coffee iced brew reference:

Brazilian coffee [Minas Bom Jardim], medium-dark roast, BG grinder setting 5R (60% standard sieve pass rate).

20g of coffee, 150g of ice, 150g of hot water. Set the water temperature 1°C above the normal pour-over recommendation of 88°C. Grind slightly finer than for hot brewing: Fuji setting 3 instead of the normal 3.5. The coffee-to-(water+ice) ratio is 1:15.

Bloom with 40g of water for 30 seconds.

Pour in two segments — 60g, then 40g — using a fine but tall water column to agitate the bed thoroughly so the grounds roll completely. Just keep the water level from rising too high, and avoid pouring onto the filter paper at the edge.

Total extraction time should be about 2.5 minutes — similar to a normal 20g hot brew.

Related Reading

Related reading: An Introduction to Brazilian South Minas Coffee — Minas has become virtually synonymous with Brazilian specialty coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Bom Jardim whets your appetite for Brazilian beans, FrontStreet Coffee also recommends our semi-washed Cerrado Red Bourbon — a truly classic Brazilian single origin. Cerrado is one of Brazil's best-known quality regions, and this Red Bourbon at a medium roast opens up with rich aromas of cream and peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut: round on the palate, not sour, with just a light bitter edge. It brews beautifully as a pour-over but is equally at home in a moka pot, as an espresso SOE, or through a siphon or French press. For something rarer, our Queen Estate (Fazenda Rainha) Yellow Bourbon from Mogiana — right next to South Minas — offers a clean fruit character and the sugarcane sweetness plus chocolate notes that only this mutation of Red Bourbon delivers.