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It's been a rainy wet Weekend in the UK, and I slept most of Saturday after my crushingly hectic working week - so for this weeks #sublimesunday we revisit my trip to Brazil - 🇧🇷 I still have a million photos to share from my trip in June and I'm sure you will all love them.
In Belo Horizonte you can visit Academia de Cafe which has this very cool coffee art on the outside, and an equally cool coffee bar, and then in the back a Probate Coffee Roaster and they even grow coffee in the back yard!
On the road around Brazil you see some interesting sights like many, many lorries carrying all sorts of goods around.
Plus some nice countryside to enjoy too.
Out of the minibus shot, the driver thought he was Colin McRae - I loose count of the amount of moments I stopped breathing when he took on an overtake of a lorry in an underpowered minibus making it back in by moments before a bigger lorry came the over way.
This tree looks like a hunchback...but who knows you decide?
I like the clouds in this one, all wispy and cool.
The roadside services had some cool decorations as well though.
Nice old tilling equipment too, plus it's sunny yay!
I call this photo lone tree. Because it has a tree...on it's own.
And this is Sun baked @c0ff33a in front of a large concrete patio of sun drying coffee cherries.
And these are the covered drying beds, so they don't get as cool as night. Sexy.
That's right, this sorting machine is just older then me! A great big machine of grids with different sizes wholes to sort the coffee beans into sizes - the same size beans fall through the relevant holes into storage units - that is how they grade coffee by bean size.
Only one of these is a native coffee farmer, you go figure.
They have flowers in Brazil too - amazeballs!
This is what's it is all about - coffee cherries growing on the trees. Up close and personal.
Juicy red and ripe, each cherry will have two coffee beans in.
Ideally they would all be the same colour, but this year the weather was strange with multiple wet seasons which caused the coffee trees to flower and then fruit multiple times. So they have trees with dried on tree cherries, ripe cherries, nearly ripe and green not ready cherries all together.
The black cherries have gone past red ripe and dried on the tree.
Ripe red, turning red and green cherries all together.
But not all coffee cherries are red! Ha just to confuse you Yellow Bourbon and Catuai varieties are yellow when ripe.
Yellow Bourbon makes some seriously tasty coffee, and it is this variety I am buying nearly a ton of from Fazenda De Lobo I visited.
A map from one of the plantations I visited, the tree's represent areas that are left uncultivated to grow wild - the farmers must leave at least 25% of the plantation to grow wild to encourage biodiversity.
Coffee cherries that have been harvested drying on a coffee patio. Well I hope you enjoyed another coffee trip around Brazil and it's coffee growing regions.
A #funkyedits to finish of a hotel I stayed in Brazil to finish.
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So cool that you go all the way to Brazil to actually see the beans that will one day be in your cup. I must admit, I’ve never heard of Yellow Bourbon beans before. Thanks for sharing your experience. !tip
Thank you very much, I actually went to one plantation where they had over 60 varieties of coffee growing - to assess which particular strains produced the most fruit at their particular altitude and climate! That's amazing - seeing rows and rows of different varieties all with differing numbers of cherries on the plant. !COFFEEA 15
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Thanks! I'll savor it :-)
I just found out you are the originator of #sublimesunday Thanks it's a fun way of posting the feelings of the sublime... Thanks for up-voting my last sublime post...cheers....
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I always love your posts and I love seing the pictures of your trip to Brazil 🇧🇷
You really got to experience alot and I remember how tired you were... Lol
Amazing emviroment and a very sunburned @c0ff33a 😊 the plantation are cool and to se the coffe bean. You truly are Mr caffeine 😁 lol
Thank you for sharing and watch out for the bear... Lol really enjoyed it my friend! ❤️
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Thank you very much, it was a long trip but I learned a great deal and made some good friends with the farmers so I can trade directly with them in future purchasing their crop. Plus the photos are easy because everything is so wonderful to look at! Even the skinny bear lol !COFFEEA 15
That's the great thing about trips like that, you learn slot and get to know people.
Good to have connections so you can help each other out, and I belive you on the environment bring amazing... Taking pictures there garanties a good shot.
But I still think the photagrapher did a great job 😜👌 lol
Have a good night! 🌹
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Lovely photos and first photography is awesome.
Thank you very much I’m pleased you enjoyed it.
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Nice i was wondering when i was going to see some more photos from Brazil i love the country side really cool 😃
Thank you very much, yes I have hundreds more yet lol
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Most welcome i knew you had to bring them out sooner or later....Cheers...have a great week 👍
The Coffee farm pictures are wonderful. I liked the first picture very much it is stunning :-)
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Interesting trip. Never been to Brazil. Don't think I'll ever plan. So far on the other side of the world for me. I didn't know they were coffee growers.
Thank you very much, Brazil is lovely in the countryside. They are very big coffee growers, in fact one of the worlds largest producers along with Colombia.
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Yellow Bourbon seems incredible too never seen that before !
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I love seeing your photos from, Brazil! That's a perfectly Sublime way to spend a Sunday! Here is mine... https://esteem.app/sublimesunday/@melinda010100/it-s-a-beautifully-sublime-sunday-that-even-has-boulders
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Looks like it was an amazing trip, @c0ff33a! That coffee machine is actually a year younger than my hubby (but a few years older than me...LOL!), and those coffee bean shots are wicked cool. Happy Sublime Sunday, and...
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It was absolutely fabulous - especially meeting the farmers and seeing how committed they are to growing their crops - absolute love for coffee. !COFFEEA 15
No wonder I love Brazilian coffee so much, given how much love it's made with! Speaking of, thanks so much for the ☕️ ❤️!
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nice to see all that's involved in the growing process!
Coffee is such much more then a drink, it's an experience from a plant to cup and for the people that grow it..a passion that they deserve far more recognition for. Thank you for taking the time to comment on my post !COFFEEA 15
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How wonderful to see photos of your travels to Brazil from over the summer! You more than made up for the cloudy days back home with that awesome tan you got!
The landscape wasn't what I expected with only a few trees but then boom! the coffee cherry beans images made up for everything! I must live a sheltered life, especially for a coffee drinker, because I've never heard of or tasted coffee cherry beans. They definitely remind me of grapes! So each coffee cherry fruit contains exactly two twin beans, never triplets or an only child? Love the random facts we learn!
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Thank you, yes the coffee cherry is the fruit and inside are normally two coffee beans which are the actual part of the plant processed to eventually make your cup of coffee. But sometimes only one bean forms in a cherry - this is called a PeaBerry bean it is often smaller and much rounder because it is not squished flat on one side against another bean. Only Kenya and Brazil tend to separate these berries up from the the other beans, which is a shame because they can be much more potent and flavourful.
Really enjoyed your #SublimeSunday pictures, @c0ff33a. And cool information about coffee cherries!
Thank you very much, I am pleased you enjoyed it.
Really skinny bear, must be drinking too much coffee lol
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Thanks for the up close and personal look of my favorite bean. I can smell them from here.
The dirt looks like most of the dirt around here...red...is it clay also?
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