Brazilian Coffee

When issues related to coffee and especially Brazilian coffee is mentioned then a lot has to be said and written, simply because Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer and is making tremendous steps towards making coffee farming and production a specialty. Coffee was introduced here in 1727 by Francisco de Mello Palheta from Cayenne. Today Brazil grows coffee varieties like the Typica, Cantura, and Mundo Nova.

Brazilian coffee bean

After harvesting the majority of Brazilian beans are processed using different methods and procedures namely the wet, dry and the semi-washed method. The dry method involves drying of the beans using natural light which is sunshine. It is understandable that Brazil is one of the countries that have distinct dry and wet weather conditions; it is possible for the farmer to dry the beans by means of the sunlight while still in the cherry.

The wet process involves the removal of the four layers engulfing the bean and resulting to a cleaner, brighter and fruitier coffee bean. Then there is the pulped natural method that involve pulping coffee beans while emitting the fermentation stage so that the silverskin is removed, this gives the beans that tastes like the wet or dry processed beans This method of bean processing takes place in countries with low humidity and Brazil encourages its coffee processors to adopt the style of bean processing.

Brazilian Santos Coffee

Brazilian Santos coffee are  mixed high quality coffee with low quality coffee due to the effect of quota ,method of delivery introduced by Brazilian Institute do Café (IBC) and the International Coffee Organization (ICO).Since these two bodies introduced quota system the quality of coffee delivered was never an issue because farmers  only concentrated on the price.

The producers would mix the low quality and the high quality to come up with met demands by the quota directions. After the mixing the producers would rename the coffee beans as the Santos 1, Santos 2 or Santos 3. The name Santos came from the port where the exporting used to be done .But in the early 1990’s the government realized the racket and the detrimental consequences that would follow and decided to shut down the IBC and the IAA and declared null and void the quota system. With the new organization, the coffee was well planted, processed, and treated .This new dawning brought new sense in the Brazil’s coffee with new customer’s buying more of it and farmers investing moiré in large coffee plantations.

Brazilian coffee

Coffee produced in Brazil today is not only used for consumption but for coffee blending as well. Now that the coffee is pre-blended we can just roast them to raise their many characteristics. We can still blend the roast coffee to achieve the richer, bolder and smoother blend. The new rules and regulations ha s seen a new dawn to Brazil’s coffee with exports increasing especially to countries like the US and the United Kingdom. The Brazilian coffee is at the stage that it should not only be seen as blending type only.