News from the Farm
What’s the latest news from our farm in Brasil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida? Water, water, everywhere!
We are now at 50% irrigation, with our main goal to give the trees water as they need it. The drought of two years ago caused a huge loss in both production and bean size: irrigation can help us avoid another unforeseen bad weather season. We’re also able to exercise more control over when watering occurs, to ensure flowerings take hold more effectively. With this much control over our growing cycle, both yield and quality will improve. And there’s more water to come!
Other experiments, like our newly released Fully Washed, Yellow Bourbon micro-lot, are living proof of farm manager Edgard Bressani’s commitment to continually improving our coffee. Edgard decided to produce a fully washed lot of coffee for the first time in our farm’s history, from our Yellow Bourbon trees. We are very excited to offer such a unique coffee: this process is basically unheard of in Brazil. Most Brazilian coffees today are pulped natural or natural processed. Find out more about this coffee in our webshop!
Alma 33 and Dallis Bros Coffee food & libations pairing
Dallis Bros Coffee and Alma 33 are proud to bring an evening of cuisine and coffee pairing. We will feature one coffee, our Octavio Cafe line of single origin coffee from our very own farm in Brazil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida. Fend off the cold with this delicious combo of food and coffee prepared in a variety of different ways appropriate to accompanying dishes.
3/23/2011, 7 pm
Alma 33, 33 West 8th St. (MacDougal St.), 10011
212.380.7158
For more info:
Grub Street http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/03/sushisamba_creates_special_rol.html
Sheckys Nightlife http://www.sheckysnightlife.com/newyorkcity/event_calendar_detail.asp?evtid=12630 Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/ny-area-food-calendar-for-march-redux
Virtual Gourmet Newsletter http://www.johnmariani.com/current-issue/
http://eventsofinterest.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/argentinas-diverse-culture-comes-to-life-at-alma-33/
Serious Eats – Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil
On June 14th, SeriousEats.com started a 5-part series featuring our coffee farm in Brazil, Fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida!
Now, we may want to explain this better. As some of you know, our company has a coffee farm and roastery in the Alta Mogiana region of Brazil (São Paulo state) and a breath-taking 12,000 ft² cafeteria in the city of São Paulo. We’ll have more on this later as our blog has just come to life…
With that said, in this series, journalist Carey Jones goes through the entire cycle of growing and production of the coffee that we serve at Octavio Café in São Paulo. The articles are very detailed and a great read, as they show a coffee production process that is relatively sophisticated, unique in several ways and that challenges many paradigms in the specialty coffee world today.
This is a fantastic introduction to the world of Dallis Bros. Coffee and Octavio Café. We certainly couldn’t have written it better ourselves! In future posts, we’ll explain in more detail how we grow, process, roast and brew Octavio Café.
Stay tuned and have fun!
Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part I, The Farm
Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 2, The Harvest
Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 3, The Processing
Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 4, The Roasting
Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 5, The Drink