The sixth day of my trip to the coffee growing regions of Brazil - with me @c0ff33a ☕️
Day six of my trip visiting Brazilian coffee plantations, we arrived at a new region Sao Lourenco to visit Carmo Coffees who are broker traders for a number of local coffee plantations including including two plantations owned by Luiz the director of Carmo Coffee.
We started out visiting the coffee processing facility, where they have drying tables covered by blue tint roofing. They also have fermentation tanks here where they can vary the fermentation and also develop new flavours by adding a thick coffee yeast liquid called Musto to the tank.
After that we visited the plantation fields to see the different coffee varieties they are growing. They have an experimental lot of Geisha which they are hoping to see good results from. And they have a large amount of Yellow Bourbon which is popular in these areas. Due to the topography of the land they have to hand pick in most areas, but with the unusual weather conditions this year they have been able to have the pickers pass the same crops multiple times only ever picking the ripe red cherries.
The trees have so many cherries in different stages of development- from the very green just starting to ripen to the past ripe drying on the tree. With selective picking they can only get the perfect cherries- so there is no sorting process needed they can go straight to be dried or fermented.
Walking to though the fields we met many of the pickers who were of all ages - although no children the laws are strict only when over 16 years old can they start to work. They were happy workers though talking, laughing and singing even.
After visiting the plantations we returned to the main office to a cupping session of coffees from twenty local farms - that is a lot of coffee to cup. Fortunately with cupping you don’t actually drink the coffee - you suck it off a spoon into your mouth trying to coat your palette and then you can detect the delicate flavours of the coffee before spitting the coffee out into a container. The coffee of course was excellent, I did find four that were my own favourites although we all had different favourites.
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I haven't found time to read your old post to know much about you but I think I can say for certainty especially after this series, you like coffee more than anyone I know. Cool.
Thank you very much, I have to be honest coffee is my business so as much as I like it - it also put’s a roof over my family’s head and food on the table. It of course helps that I’m passionate about coffee, but also it being sustainable for everyone including the farmers and their workers - commodity prices for coffee are very low again but the farms I visited are working in growing Speciality Coffee and increasing their crops value by processing the coffee after it is picked in different ways like fermentation or forced drying.
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Oh, that does explain a lot, my original thought was that you were vacationing there. I think it sounds like a great job especially the supporting the farmer's sustainability.
Going off what @trudyhunter was saying
Um yes the sheer land size must be absolutely mindblowing... as with any crop... but according to Andrew Menke, the coffee industry has a global net worth of $20B...HOLY COW! That's annual so what is that, 20Billion acres or 20Billion @c0ff33a fruits picked per minute??lol
Thank you for the outstanding trip updates:)
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Thank you very much, the global net worth of coffee might well be that much - but the majority is earned by global corporations and brands. The actual farms growing the coffee are struggling to survive on what they are paid per pound of green coffee - and many plantations are starting to change to other crops where they can get a decent return for their effort.
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Oh wow that's incredibly sad!! I hate how the flow is backwards like that. Makes me want to pay the farmers double per ounce of green coffee and roast it myself. Thank you so much. You're definitely a coffee expert!
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The place looks so beautiful and serene. The plantations look healthy.
Though I am thinking just having the coffee powder would be too strong for the pallet. Isn't it?
Nice place coffee growing regions of Brazil and processing system photography.
Nice day full of exploring and seeing some great stuff right there so nice
Thank you very much
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Oh you look good, and we know Brazil has one of the coffee, love to visit Brazil someday, and have a taste of the coffee.
Those coffee plantations seem to go on for miles @c0ff33a Great photos and information. I didn't realize that you could get so many different flavours.
Thank you very much, they do go on for miles although every farm owner in Brazil has to leave 20% of their land untouched to maintain the natural ecology and flora of Brazil.
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