Buy this weeks featured Single Origin and receive half off any regular blend. This Saturday Feb 7th we are featuring BRAZIL, Bahia! Come see what the hype is about! This high-tech Arabica is smooth, nutty and packed with cocoa aromas. medium dark and featured on espresso! See you TOMORROW!
Take a Deeper Dive!
Single Origin Saturday at Caffe Cocina is an opportunity for us to get connected to the different and special coffees that come across our offer sheets from farmers that we work with year round to produce the coffees you know and love. It allows us to develop our palate and get familiar with different regions understand different roasting profiles and provide access and information to our coffee community here in Poulsbo and all around the country.
Bahia, located in the northeast of Brazil, is a new addition: coffee cultivation only began here in the ‘70s. Yet it’s already gained fame for its quality beans and use of technology. About 75% of its crops are Arabica.
There are two producing regions within Bahia:
Cerrado and Planalto da Bahia
These are the most high-tech coffee-producing regions in Brazil. From cropping to harvesting, full mechanization is common. This is made possible by the uniform ripening of the cherries, which in turn is induced by irrigation. The result? The highest productivity rate in the country.
A coffee fazenda in Bahia. Credit: CeCafe
Yet it’s not just the region’s productivity levels that are remarkable. Antônio Rigo de Oliveira from the farm Chaçará São Judas Tadeu in the city of Piatã won Brazil’s Pulped Naturals 2015 Cup of Excellence, scoring 91.22 out of 100. Antônio was also awarded the seal of presidential coffee for obtaining a score higher than 90 points.
As for the region’s climate, it has high altitudes and a warm climate, with dry summers and rainy winters. This results in sweet coffees, usually Catuaí, with low acidity and a full body.
Atlantico Baiano
Like Conilon Capixaba, this region produces Conilon (Robusta) on small properties at low altitudes.