REGION: Cerrado

ROAST: Medium Dark

ELEVATION: 4,000 ft

TASTING NOTES: Cacao nibs, Smokey, Full Body

PROCESS: Natural

VARIETIES: Mundo Novo, Catuai Red and Yellow, Topazio, Catucai, Acia

Farm/Co-op Notes: This offering comes from 12 smallholder farms in the Cerrado region, which is the newest coffee growing region in Brazil. In 1975, farmers set out in search for new areas to develop. At the time, Cerrado was an underdeveloped area with poor, acidic soil. The government soon helped out with simple and inexpensive options to aid the soil for food production. Coffee plants adapted well to Cerrado’s well defined climate with warm temperatures, intense sunlight, and dry winters. Today, coffee is grown here in 55 towns, across 210,000 hectares.

The process for this coffee started with the cherries being mechanically harvested from the 12 farms and sent to the washing station for processing. The cherries were cleaned and separated by density. Ripe cherries are denser and will sink in water. Then they were dried in sun and finished with mechanical driers to promote a more even result. After the drying stage, the coffee rested in wooden boxes for a min. of 30 days before being hulled and warehoused.

List of Farms

1. Farm: São Pedro – farmer: Noriberto Ferraresi
2. Farm: Quilombo – farmer: Juscelino de Araujo
3. Farm: Tolardo – farmer: Valdemir Tolardo
4. Farm: Estiva – farmer: Marcelo Giolo
5. Farm: Fortaleza – farmer: Fernando Junqueira
6. Farm: Lenheiros – farmer: Ana Maria Menezes Mendonça
7. Farm: Agua Limpa – farmer: Ricardo de Almeida Barcelos
8. Farm: Regional I – farmer: Rogério Machado Arantes
9. Farm: Castelhana – farmer: Acácio Dianin
10. Farm: Paraiso – farmer: Rodrigo Ribeiro de Araújo
11. Farm: Congonhas – farmer: Agropecuária Congonhas
12. Farm: Vereda Grande – farmer: João Marcos Sanches

Please allow 2-5 days for your order to process.

LOCAL DELIVERY (Wednesday) within 5 miles of Reading, PA 19606. Order by Monday for Wed delivery.

FARMERS MARKET PICKUP can be selected as a shipping option once the address field has been completed at checkout.

If you would like to check on your order you may email us anytime at hillroadcoffeeroasters@gmail.com.

All sales are final. No returns or refunds are permitted. An exchange or credit will be issued for damaged products.