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Indonesia Flores and Brazil Capricornio
Brazil
FARMS: Fazenda Santa Mariana, Sitio Teixeira, Fazenda São Carlos
BLEND: Farmer blend with notes of chocolate and berries
LOCATION: Marilia and Garça, Norte Pioneiro
CULTIVARS: Catuaí and Novo Mundo
EXPORTER: Capricornio Coffees
IMPORTER: Special Roast
ROASTER: Special Roast
Indonesia Java
FARMS: Kojoyo cooperative and First Light coffeei (ASNIKOM)
LOCATION: Temanggung region (Java)
CULTIVARS: Unique robusta varieties derived from uncontrolled cross-pollination
EXPORTER: Ontosoroh Coffee
IMPORTER: This Side Up Coffees
ROASTER: Special Roast
Blending Brazil with Indonesia - coffee specs
What to taste for:
Aroma: dark chocolate, dried berries, herbs, spices.
Body: round mouthfeel with a thick body.
Acidity: hint of orange, grape.
Aftertaste: white pepper, almond, honey.
PROCESSING YOUR COFFEE
The Brazilian coffee is a pulped natural. The combination of altitude and processing results in a jammy, red fruit profile, with lots of sweetness and a dark chocolate backbone. The excellent treatment of the Signature lots give it unrivaled consistency in quality and flavor, year after year. The Indonesian coffee is a natural processed robusta, giving it a very round, sweet and spicy taste, without the hints of tar and rubber so often associated with this type of coffee.
ROASTING YOUR COFFEE
We use a 22kg Probat UG22 roaster, that has been built in 1965. The roast time is 11 minutes. After the first crack, the coffee is roasted for a remainder of 25% of the time. To obtain the best flavor and taste each coffee or blend has a unique roast profile.
Relative price breakdown:
60%
is what the farmers get of the green coffee price in Rotterdam. This is for growing, harvest, milling and preparing the bags for export.
23%
Importing, financing, shipping bureaucracy, sampling and financing costs for This Side Up Coffees.
11%
Exporting by Capricornio in Brazil and Ontosoroh Coffee in Indonesia.
6%
total shipping costs to Rotterdam. Full container loads good forwarding connections warrant such favourable shipping prices.
About the Brazilian farmers
Capricornio coffees is located on the line of Capricorn (hence the name!) and therefore quite distant from the Equator, this means that winters are colder and average temperature is lower. The coffees will need to work harder to ripen, which increases the sweetness of the flavor, creating a very distinct coffee.
This coffee is a blend especially prepared for Special Roast, and part of the Signature coffees line of the connected Capricornio Estates. Signature coffees have taste profiles idealized and chosen by Capricornio Coffees directors José Antônio and Luiz Roberto, and validated by the Quality Control team. The aim is to create taste profiles that are repeated every year, offering not only quality, but also consistency, that coffee drinkers recognize every year.
About the Indonesian farmers
Wahyu founded Kojoyo in 2019 with an intent to make economic impact for farmers that were interested to produce specialty coffee. This region because of it’s altitude specializes in Arabica and very little robusta. Along with his experience, his thoroughness when it came production, processing protocols, quickly made it possible for them to start becoming profitable. In 2020, this coop added a new mission, partnering with Indonesia’s Counter Terrorism Body (BNPT), to counter Islamic radicalization agenda by empowering farmers and rehabilitated terrorists on the area the chance for self employment through coffee cultivation and coffee tourism. Out of 250 members, 5-6 of them are ex-imprisoned radical Islamic terrorists who have now turned coffee farmers, thanks to Wahyu! Currently the government has dedicated 100 hectares of land for this project out of which 30 are productive with speciality coffee and expanding the rest in the coming years.