Seasonal Brazil Minas Gerais 250g Beans

Located in the southern region of Minas, this Brazil Yellow Bourbon benefits from a climate ideal for coffee production. First cultivated in the 1930s, it’s known for its distinctive appearance and cup profile, making it a globally recognised variety. With low to medium yields and greater care requirements, it remains a rarer offering on the market. Grown at altitudes above 1000 masl across 20,000 square kilometres, nearly 70% of the farm can be worked by hand due to minimal mountainous terrain.

Yellow Bourbon is a natural mutation of Red Bourbon, known for its yellow or orange ripe cherries and celebrated for its high quality and sweet, complex flavour. This quarter, our boutique Yellow Bourbon blend is sourced by the quality team at Bourbon Specialty Coffee, Brazil’s leading specialty exporter, from three outstanding farms, run by the Agro Beloni families: Santa Cruz da Vargem Grande, Esperança and Sítio Monte Alto.

Santa Cruz da Vargem Grande has gained recognition for its dedication to regenerative agriculture and sustainability. It was the first farm globally to receive the Regenagri certification and places strong emphasis on soil health, water conservation, and tree management to produce high-quality coffee. Sítio Monte Alto, owned by Fernando Hervaz, has been cultivating Yellow Bourbon for five years in South Minas. The region’s ideal microclimate—rainy summers and dry harvest seasons—combined with steep terrain, means all coffee is hand-picked with care. Esperança Farm, originally settled in 1896 and officially founded in the 1930s by João Silveira, has focused on quality coffee production for over a century. Now known as "Boa Esperança," it continues its legacy of consistent, high-grade harvests to this day.

The average annual temperature of 20.2 degrees grants the farm with its own unique micro-climate. This is especially favourable for producing natural coffees with striking body and acidity.Over 20 families live and work on the farm and once the cherries are picked they are washed on the same day . The coffee spends the night in a sheet metal hopper and the following morning it is taken directly to African beds to dry for 12 days until the beans reach a 15% humidity level. Once the beans have reach optimum dryness, they are moved to a wooden granary where they rest for 60 days allowing the moisture to homogenise through the lot.

Why Our Coffee is The Best?

Sourcing the Pick of the Crop

Established relationships with producers and the coffee farming community means we can consistently source the best Arabica and Robusta beans from over 40 origins across the Coffee Growing Belt. At Kingdom Coffee we always demand the pick of the crop. We buy Grade 1 or “Strictly High Grown” – SHG coffee beans. By selecting only coffee beans from the highest elevations we can be sure that the bean has matured more slowly, grown to a larger size and with more density to create a consistently great taste profile.

There’s no denying that coffee grown at higher elevations produces the best flavour profiles, which is then sorted and graded by the farmers with greater care and attention and therefore command a higher premium price which we are very happy to pay! We believe passionately that farmers should be rewarded fairly for their hard work and the quality of their crop.

 

 

Investing in the Purest and Cleanest Roast

ROASTING BETTER: We are unique in that we roast on a clean bed of air in small batches as opposed to conventional drum roasting - only 1% of coffee is roasted this way. Air roasting elevates the natural sweetness to give a smooth and pure taste. Unlike traditional roasting, the chaff, the skin of the bean, that surrounds the raw bean is removed during the air process whilst in normal roasting this is burnt onto the bean. This makes the resultant air roasted beans more pure as the beans will taste less burnt and acidic.

CONSISTENCY: Another benefit to Air Roasting is consistency - typical roasters rely upon roasting “to colour“ which returns a high degree of variance from batch to batch. The Air Roasters rely upon exact metrics such as temperature and time with specific profiles that have been developed by our Q Grader, a certified coffee professional, to suit the particular bean. An exact science rather than guess work.

 

 

Protecting the Environment

We all have to recognise and assess our individual impact upon the environment. Our new Air Roaster uses 30% less energy than a typical roaster and reduces wasted heat by recirculating it in a fully enclosed system. We have a catalytic converter to ensure that harmful gases released are reduced by around 96%. Committing further to minimise our impact on the planet we have moved our packaging to 100% curb-side recyclable. This new packaging still protects that fresh roasted taste.

 

 

OUR BEANS are amongst the freshest on the market, being roasted to stock in the UK as opposed to importing roasted beans on a much longer timescale. Our Neotech roaster is more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and better than conventional drum roasters in that it can roast in specific small batches with unique roasting profiles that are able to compensate product variations and unfold the unique flavour of each individual coffee blend whilst reducing wasted heat by recirculating in the fully enclosed system.

Our range of Ethical coffees support our partnership with Toybox, who we aim to donate £100,000 over a period of ten years, having donated £50,000 in the last 5 years. This enabled Toybox to provide the resources needed for the street outreach team throughout 2020, conducting 240 visits to children in the most high-risk areas in Guatemala City as well as deliver 100 children across the city a warm and nutritious meal each week. Your continued support of Kingdom Coffee means that we can fund vital projects like this so thank you very much!