Espresso B, Brazil

by Mok

Espresso B stands for 100% Brazil, no blends, all credits to the producers. Great as espresso and for all your milky drinks.  The Barbosa family has been cultivating coffee since the early 1900s when Elias Barbosa bought the Fazenda in Campos Altos, a small town in Cerrado. Today it is run by his great-grandson Danilo Barbosa and family. Since the first generations worked on the farm, a lot has changed. For one, the demand of coffee from Brazil worldwide has risen - and still rises every day - while supply can't follow because production suffers from unpredictable climatological events such as frosts or long droughts. A small frost kills a harvest, a severe frost kills all the trees. This uncertainty creates exponential price fluctuations such as the huge raise we are experiencing today. Another change is that more and more producers grow specialty coffee in Brazil. Producers who were originally only interested in commodity, or at least whose ancestors were, have switched to special