Brazil Coffee

Brazil Coffee is an estate coffee from the Minas Gerais region. It has an amazing taste with hints of sweetness, chocolate notes, balanced acidity, and a pleasantly clean taste. Rated a low acid coffee due to the lower acidity. Certifications: Kosher Certified Rainforest Alliance Certified Flavor Notes: Chocolate, Honey, Almond, Dried Fruits. Processing: Washed Process Roast: Medium Roast Additional Information: pH: 5.2 Low Acid Coffee Single Origin Coffee Altitude: 3,500 Feet History of Brazil Coffee Brazil has become synonymous with coffee for nearly two centuries, and to this day, Brazil still produces more than a third of the entire world’s coffee. At its peak, though, Brazil nearly controlled 80% of coffee production across the globe. Introduced in the earlier half of the 18th century, coffee made its way to Brazil from French Guiana and has quite a romantic, though somewhat incredulous, the history behind how it arrived, if you were to believe legend at least. According to the story, Francisco de Melo Palheta brought the first coffee plant to Brazil’s northern region of Para. As the story goes, Palheta traveled to French Guiana on a diplomatic mission, though engaged in a…