Your Coffee
Brazil Capricornio and Nicaragua
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
EXPORTER: Capricornio Coffees
IMPORTER: This Side Up Coffees
ROASTER: Special Roast
NICARAGUA
FARMERS: Paguaga family
LOCATION: Ocotal, Nicaragua
CULTIVARS: Caturra, yellow and red caturra, villassarchi
FARM SIZE: 5 estates, 140 hectares in total
ALTITUDE: 600 - 1,700 meters above sea level
EXPORTER: Café Vidita
IMPORTER: This Side Up Coffees
ROASTER: Special Roast
Blending Brazil with Nicaragua - coffee specs
What to taste for:
Aroma: dark chocolate, dried berries.
Body: round mouthfeel, hazelnut, chocolate.dy.
Acidity: gentle and rounded.
Aftertaste: black currant, bakers chocolate.
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
Special Roast uses a 22kg Probat UG22 roaster, that has been built in 1965. To obtain the best flavor and taste each coffee or blend has a unique roast profile.
Relative price breakdown:
59%
the price the farmers receive, of the green (unroasted) coffee.
18%
dry-milling costs and export fee.
3%
total shipping costs from Santos, through customs and to our warehouse and from Ocotal, Nicaragua to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Full container loads good forwarding connections warrant such favourable shipping prices..
20%
Importing, financing, shipping bureaucracy, sampling and financing costs for This Side Up Coffees.
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 Nicaraguan Farmers
Los Congos, Las Brumas, La Iguana, La Española, and La Portuguesa are all located in Nueva Segovia, a well know coffee region surrounded by communities that have long benefited from coffee. The Paguaga family runs five coffee estates in this region and even managed to protect the mountaintops of their properties, proclaiming them a natural reserve. Rina and René aim to make their estates a model for other farmers in the region to follow, and they do so with a systematic approach. Soil is carefully analysed, and rigorous nutrition plans for the trees are executed throughout the year. They truly work for healthy, happy estates.