The Good Morning Blend

The Coffee The Farmer A little bit more on the dark side of things compared to the Keepin’ Me Happy blend. 50% Brazil Samba 50% Colombia Excelso Here’s something to get you going on a Monday morning. To cure the hangover from Friday night. To go well with your pain au chocolate you’re about to treat yourself too. There’s no wrong time of day to be drinking this coffee. Is comforting, rich, chocolately, syrupy, indulgent. Brazil Samba An array of soils, climates, and temperatures in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, and Cerrado regions contribute to this coffee Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world. With such diversity, the range of coffee that it produces is vast – from small holder farms to huge estates. Soils, regional climate and temperatures make great growing conditions. Brazil has worked hard in recent years to promote itself as a sustainable producer, and has laws that require a minimum of 20% of any farm to be protected habitat for the flora and fauna that calls Brazil home. Much of the coffee comes from Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo or Cerrado regions. Varietals lean towards a mix of the traditional mundo novo, Bourbon and Catuai to the newer improved versions such as Arara, Catucai or IAC125. Cherry is collected and processed in Brazil at farm level, including dry milling. Beans are then stored in large wooden silos to allow the moisture to homogenise through the lot. Once this stage is completed the beans are cupped, scored, and sent to the warehouse facility for SMC. Here the is stored in RFID tagged lots, which disable the forklift if the designated lot is not scheduled to be moved, guaranteeing the quality received is the quality chosen. The coffee undergoes a further cleaning and colour/laser sorting before being bagged for export. Colombia Excelso Colombia is a country of great diversity, both geographically, culturally, and linguistically – it boasts over 68 ethnic languages as well as Spanish and even English in one of the archipelagos. Its land stretches from the Amazon Rainforest to the highlands of the Andes mountains, and was once the worlds largest producer of washed coffees, from three main geographical areas trisected by the Andes mountain range. Rust, a fungal disease appearing as yellow spots on the leaves disrupting photosynthesis, decimated the production back in 2009. The country has seen a rise in resistant varietals since then as production has slowly regrown. Typica was gradually replaced in the 1970’s with the