The second part of my Brazilian coffee journey. Now the things get interesting!

Hey, coffee lovers, how are you? Hope you had some very tasty coffee lately!

Last week I wrote a post about a pretty special coffee set that I bought recently and it combines four of the fonest Brazilian coffees, at least that available in the shop where I buy coffee from. Last week I tried two coffees - one that was labeled brown, more chocolate like flavor and the other was with red label, which means generally more fruitful taste.

Two coffees were left for this week and now we will see them. I will continue down the list suggested by the coffee guru, Jordan Dabov, and now we have…

3. BRAZIL CAMBRAIA

With the third coffee, Brazil Cambraia, you will find something truly special - an extremely limited microlot from the Samambaya farm, owned by Yordan Debov's long-time friend, Enrique Cambraia. The cafes of
Enrique has won the Cup of Excellence three times - in 2000, 2001 and 2014.
The coffee you will taste combines decades of enormous effort, precise technique and ecologically sustainable agriculture.
You will feel a balance between sweetness and acidity of orange peels, dates and dark chocolate.

Black label coffee means an exclussive coffee, that hosts even more special flavor profile. The coffees here usually have a complex fruitful flavor, sometimes ending with liqueur or fine brown sugar notes. I think that this coffee can brew extremely well on the espresso machine, but after all decided to try it on V60.

Here we finally have some lighter roasted beans, and this is something I like a lot and prefer when purchasing a coffee for me.

Lighter roast also means that I’m gonna be brewing with a bit hogher temperature water. Let’s grind these extra fine beans and brew them!

These beans already feel more special, with quite delicate aromas leaving the grinder. I am really curious if they arealso gonna taste that special and exclussive. Of course, the aromas coming out are fruitful and sweety.

The kitchen jars are here to help. I loke the glass to be clear and uncolored, because I like to experience the color of the coffee. This one looks wonderful!

Both I and my wife liked the coffee. I didn’t tell her which coffee I was brewing and passed the cup, awaiting the comment. She asked “That one is different, right?”. I cannot tell the exact fruit combination, but the taste definitely is quite exotic and sweet. Coffee is not that sour, like some other Arabica varieties, and this leads to a very balanced and sweetful cup of coffee.

And now time for the last coffee…

4. BRAZIL #2 COE 2023

Finish your journey with our most prestigious coffee, winner of the Cup of Excellence 2023. This coffee is exceptional intense taste, rich aroma and sensual notes of mango, pineapple and brown sugar that will transport your imagination to the tropical nature of Brazil.
Ecoagrícola Café farmers used an experimental method at the fermentation of this coffee, which has resulted in its refined taste qualities. The international jury of the Cup of Excellence, of which Jordan Dabov is a part, defined it as one of the best coffees in the world - a title we would certainly stand behind...

And this is definitely the coffee that made me purchase this set of four coffees without even thinking. I wanted to taste this coffee a lot, but a bag of 200g would cost me about the price of this whole box. Of course, now I have only 40 grams of this competition coffee, but it is just enough to brew two filters.

Let’s dive inside!

Here again, we have some pretty light roasted coffee which is fantastic. Roasting such a fine and high score coffee darker than medium light should be a crime.

Of course, this score of 89.88 can sometimes be a bit subjective, bit this means that the coffee is exceptional. Every coffee that has a higher score than 85 should be excellent.

The wait is nearing its end and I become more and more excited, with these fine aromas coming from the beans. When I ground them, I was even more impatiend because I was already feeling the tropical madness of rime Pineapple and mango.

Three more minutes later coffee has to be in my cup. Here I beewed with 92 degrees hot water again, because of the light roast levels. If it was medium, I was gonna leave the water cooler, at about 88-90 degrees only.

And here we are!

Altjough not all the competition coffees are that awesome, this one was definitely worth putting some extra cash for. It is definitrly like the peak of fruitful coffees and I understant brilliantly why it was rewarded with such a high score. I am not sure if I am gonna pay that much for a bag of 200 grams, but I will definitely think about it.

Finally, this box of 4 excellent specialty coffees from Brazil was worth every penny that I paid for it. I am happy that I have the chance to dive so deep into the different tastes pf Brazillian coffee. I had the chance to taste some cheaper and at the same time some of the most special coffees.

That’s it… that was all for today! See you really soon! Bye and have a fabulous new week.