Brazil - Castanas do Brazil
Brazil - Castanas do Brazil
Brazil’s bold beans stroll in with nutty jokes, chocolate warmth, and effortless charm. A cup so smooth it practically winks before you’ve even sipped.
What does it taste like? • Hazelnut • mandarin • dark chocolate
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Nutty, chocolatey, and dangerously friendly. This Brazilian beauty is the coffee equivalent of a charming rogue—wins you over instantly, then convinces you to pour another.
Smooth, nutty, sun-kissed simplicity. Grown in golden soil and roasted with care, this Brazilian bean is mellow, grounded, and full of heart.
From our flock to your mug, it's coffee with quiet confidence
Medium roast
Medium roast
All our beans are medium roasted to preserve their natural character and avoid the bitterness of over-roasting
The coffee
Castanhas do Brasil which translates as "Nuts of Brazil" is a blend of made from mainly from one particular area called Carmo De Cachoeira.
The coffee is selected for its sweet and creamy hazelnut praline profile by the cupping team in the Cocatrel Direct Lab who assign it to this profile blend. The coffee must have a clean profile and be scoring 83 + on evaluation.
- Cup score: 83
- Varietal: Mixed
- Process: Natural
- Altitude (masl): 900 - 1100
Meet the farmer
The Cocatrel Cooperative in Tres Pontas have over 6000 members.
Over 50% of the members of the cooperative grow coffee on land that is less than 10 Ha in size.
Falcon Specialty work with a branch of the Cooperative called Cocatrel Direct Trade who work to source the best coffees and promote these for their members.
Farm / Region
The Cocatrel Cooperative was founded in 1961 in Tres Pontas and has now grown to the second largest Cooperative in Brazil. There are over 6000 members who are part of the cooperative and they have 11 different buying points across the region.
All the coffee are electronically tagged and recorded on delivery with a unique QR code giving full traceability on all the coffees for the growers to know exactly where their coffee is.
The process
All the coffees that are part of this blend are dried in static boxes. These are 1 m deep boxes with capacity for 15000 litre volume of cherry which equates to 25-30 bags of green coffee.
The boxes have a vented grill at the bottom to allow for air to be circulated from below up through the drying coffee. There are two thermometers at different depths to ensure a safe temperature always below 40c.
They are referred to as static due to the coffee remaining still in the boxes and not being turned or rotated during drying.
After it is dried the coffee is then left to rest for approximately 1- 2 weeks before being milled. This method has allowed the production of more fruity and prominent profiles from the usual profile we associate with Brazil natural coffee.
