São Judas Tadeu - Pulped Natural ( Filter Roasted )

COUNTRY: Brazil

STATE: Bahia

REGION: Chapada Diamantina

TOWN: Piatã 

ELEVATION: 1,300 – 1,380m above sea level

VARIETY: Catuaí

FARM OWNERS: Pulped Natural

PRODUCERS: Antônio and Terezinha Rigno

Antônio has invested in modern processing facilities, including a wet mill and both conventional and greenhouse patios. He ensures that his processes are reviewed and guided annually by technicians from AGRIPEC, an agricultural support community, and is highly attentive to new technologies and methods that will improve quality.

Each harvest, Antonio enlists the help of some 120 seasonal workers to pick fully ripe cherry  (or as he calls them, “grape red”), by hand by undertaking two passes a day during the peak of the harvest. This job is mainly assumed by local women (called “panhadeiras de cafe”), who are extremely disciplined and ensure only the very best cherries are selected. Once harvested, cherries were then taken by tractors to the wet mill, which is located right on the farm, where a dedicated team of ten processed the coffee with great care. 

This coffee was processed using the pulped natural process. After pulping, the beans were sun-dried on greenhouse patios with their mucilage still attached—spread in layers of about four centimetres and raked several times a day. Between seven to twelve days later, depending on the weather, the beans were separated into numbered lots, and later stored and rested in parchment in a purpose-built warehouse. They were then cupped for quality control prior to export.

RECOMMENDED Suitable for Filter brewing methods and French press.

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