Brazil Brigadeiro - Regenerative Organic Coffee

One of our favourite coffees from our longstanding direct trade partner and biodynamic pioneer Henrique Sloper.
The origin of the Yellow Bourbon variety has an interesting story. In the early 18th Century Brazil started producing coffee by introducing the Typica variety to their plantations. By the mid nineteenth century Brazil had become a global producer and looked for a higher yield variety to improve export volume. A Brazilian emissary brought back seeds of the Red Bourbon variety from Reunon Island, near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. By 1870 the red Bourbon variety had become one of the predominant coffees produced in Brazil. Then in 1871 in the city of Botucatu in the State of São Paulo: a mutation of Typica bore yellow berries, something never naturally seen before in Brazil. While the yellow Typica mutation referred to then as Yellow Botucatu wasn’t particularly productive, it was adopted by a number of farmers for the curious colour of its fruit.
Brigadeiro named after the Brazilian desert because of its vanilla ice cream taste notes.