Brazil Cerrado Serra Negra Yellow Bourbon

Traditional full body coffee with notes of milk chocolate, can sugar, mild citrus, and clean nuts. 

Serra Negra Estate coffee comes from the Cerrado region of Minas Gerais Brazil. The estate has been in the Nakao family for the last 27 years. The current owners show a genuine concern for their surrounding environment and do what they can to balance natural preservation with coffee production and quality.

The region has red-yellow soil with an average temperature of 18-25 degrees C and altitudes just over 1100masl. These conditions allow them to dry the crop on their patios, shifting the coffee 10-15 times a day to achieve even and quality drying.

Yellow Bourbon on sun-dried bed

Yellow Bourbon is best know for quality among Speciality coffee cycle, but it’s indeed a rare grown in Brazil. Less than 1% of the Brazilian coffee is Yellow Bourbon. This coffee cherry of this special type of bourbon never turn red even ripe. Special attention is needed on harvesting in order to separate the ripe cherry from unripe.

  • Origin: Brazil
  • Region: Minas Gerais, Cerrado
  • Producer: Serra Negra Estate
  • Altitude: 1100m
  • Cultivar: Yellow bourbon
  • Processing: Natural sun-dried

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