You can't miss the big layers of sweetness here - think a Milky Way bar, with milk chocolate and light but creamy nougat. As it cools, sultanas enter the mix alongside Brazil nuts.
Fazenda Inglaterra is a farm we've been buying from for over ten years, and it's one that we are very proud to be working with and linked with. The owner is a very good friend to Hasbean, Stephen Hurst.
To tell the story of Inglaterra, we'll hand this over to Stephen to tell you how he came to own 'Inglaterra':
“Maybe it had always been an idea in the back of my mind – so a couple of years ago when some friends in Brazil mentioned that a small coffee farm was for sale, I had a look.
The farm's name (Fazenda Toca Da Onca) means 'hiding place of a small wildcat'. The locals now call the farm 'Inglaterra'. The previous owners had abandoned Toca Da Onca/Inglaterra. So we had to start again, almost from scratch. Some surviving coffee trees were pruned right back and the coffee that you are now drinking is that re-growth from the original old trees.
The farm is located near the lovely spa town of Poços de Caldas in the coffee-growing heartlands of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. The farm's elevation is 950–1,300 metres, and it has rich soil. It's on the edge of an ancient caldera/super volcano, whose outline can be seen on satellite images. 50% of the farm is virgin Mata Atlantica forest and as long as I own it, it will stay that way. I am replanting some areas with the help of my local friends Gabriel and Cristiano, without whose assistance this project would never have started."
You can't miss the big layers of sweetness here - think a Milky Way bar, with milk chocolate and light but creamy nougat. As it cools, sultanas enter the mix alongside Brazil nuts.
- Country: Brazil
- Region: Minas Gerias
- City: Poços de Caldas
- Farm: Fazenda Inglaterra
- Producer: Stephen Hurst
- Farm size: 10 hectares
- Coffee growing area: 5 hectares
- Altitude: 1,200 m.a.s.l.
- Varietals: Bourbon
- Processing system: Natural
CUPPING NOTES
Milk chocolate, nougat, sultana, Brazil nut
- Clean cup: (1–8): 6.5
- Sweetness: (1–8): 6.5
- Acidity: (1–8): 6
- Mouthfeel: (1–8): 6
- Flavour: (1–8): 6
- Aftertaste: (1–8): 6
- Balance: (1–8): 7
- Overall: (1–8): 6.5
- Correction:(+36): +36
- Total (max. 100): 86.5
Roasting Information
Medium - through first crack and well through the gap, but keep it before second gets going to avoid losing the milk chocolate sweetness and creaminess of the cup.