Nowadays, more and more people have a habit of drinking coffee every day, but for those who don't work in a coffee shop, how can they drink coffee anytime? At this point, the barista from Front Street Coffee brought out drip coffee bags! Today, Front Street will share Front Street Coffee's seasonaldrip coffee bags—the story behind Brazil Red Bourbon coffee beans and brewing tips for drip bags.

Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer, with coffee mostly grown in plains or plateau tropical savanna climate zones, where the average annual temperature is about 20°C. The excellent climate and mostly flat geographical conditions allow Brazil to cultivate coffee on a large scale, and coffee cherries are harvested by machine, so it's easy to imagine that the yield is astonishing.
 

|The impact of the 2020 drought on Brazil's coffee production in 2021 and even 2022
In 2020, in addition to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazil's coffee sales, this year's drought in Brazil greatly reduced the production of Brazilian Arabica coffee beans, and Brazil had the chance to repeat the drought disaster of 2014. According to financial websites and foreign media reports, having previously seen various articles and pictures about the Brazilian drought online, well-known soft commodities expert Judith ·Ganes traveled to Brazil in December for an on-site investigation and stayed for 7 days in Minas Gerais, Brazil's largest coffee-producing region.
 

Ganes pointed out that although it is still impossible to estimate the specific production of Brazilian Arabica coffee next year, at the estates I visited, some places may suffer damage reaching 30%, some places 50%, and some places even as high as 100% (editor's note: damage does not refer to direct production reduction, but to the planted area affected by drought). At the same time, Ganes also said: "Having worked in the coffee industry for more than 30 years, the conditions of some estates shocked me. I have never seen anything so bad. The production-reducing effect brought by the drought is not only for 2021, but may also affect 2022."

During the 7-day trip, except that the situations in the two coffee-growing regions of Mogiana and Cerrado were slightly better, because these places have well-established irrigation systems and also carried out timely pruning of branches and leaves, the estimated production reduction was only between 10% and 30%, and a large part of this was also due to the off-year in production.
 

Brazil Cerrado coffee-producing region　　
The coffee beans used by Front Street Coffee to make Brazilian drip coffee bags come from Brazil's Cerrado producing region. In the Cerrado coffee-producing region, not all coffee grown on the savanna is called Cerrado coffee. Only coffee from areas at an altitude of 1100-1300m can be crowned with the name Cerrado coffee. This area has the finest section of the Cerrado savanna, with high altitude and fertile soil. Front Street believes that the coffee beans produced in this region are sweet and clean, with high body and no earthy or musty taste.
 

Affected by the drought, Rio de Janeiro-based Coffee New Selection said: "Due to the prospect of low production and optimism about vaccination boosting the outlook for coffee demand, we believe coffee futures prices will rise in the first half of next year. They may return from the current about $1.23 to between $1.40 and $1.50 per pound." But even so, Front Street Coffee'sseasonal drip coffee bagsand Front Street Coffee's Brazilian everyday drinking beans will still remain at their original prices. We hope more friends will learn about Brazilian coffee beans.

|Brazilian coffee bean variety—Red Bourbon

Bourbon is a secondary variety produced by a mutation of Typica. Together with Typica, it is among the oldest existing coffee varieties. When the green fruit ripens, it turns bright red. Compared with Typica, Bourbon has broader leaves and denser growth. Although its yield is higher than Typica, its harvest period is also 2 years, so it is still considered a low-yield variety, yet it has a high-quality taste, with acidity resembling red wine and a sweet finish.
 

The coffee beans are relatively large in shape, uniform in size, and even and glossy in color. For ease of harvesting, farmers prune the coffee trees to no more than 150 cm.After a Red Bourbon coffee tree generally flowers and bears fruit, the color of the coffee cherries changes as follows: green > turning slightly yellow > turning slightly orange > turning ripe red > then turning darker red as it becomes more ripe. Therefore, some people also call it [Red Bourbon], but in fact Red Bourbon is simply what we generally call Bourbon. Bourbon planted at high altitudes usually has better aroma, while its acidity is brighter, and it even tastes somewhat like red wine.

|Brazilian semi-dry processing method (semi-dry processing)

The semi-dry processing method is a method between natural and washed processing, and can be further divided into two categories: pulped natural and honey processing. The two processing methods are basically very similar. Both first remove the skin of the coffee cherry as in washed processing, but skip the washed process of "tank fermentation and rinsing with clean water" and directly put the beans out in the sun to dry. Although the methods seem similar, because of one important difference, they create two very different flavors, which are worth explaining separately.
 

This processing method uses much less water than the washed method, and part of the method resembles washed processing (removing skin and pulp), while part resembles natural processing (without tank fermentation), so it is also called the semi-washed method. The introduction of the semi-dry processing method does not mean that all Brazilian producing regions use it. Cerrado, which has lower humidity, still mainly uses natural processing, and semi-dry processing is instead a supporting player in Cerrado. However, the Red Bourbon from the Cerrado region that Front Street Coffee sourced is processed using the semi-dry method.

How to brew Front Street Coffeedrip coffee bags?
For drip coffee, you just open the package and pour hot water over it, and it's ready to drink. It's really super convenient. But there is actually a little knowledge hidden in how to brew drip coffee. Next, let Front Street take you along to learn how to easily use drip bags to brew a cup of coffee that is no inferior to a coffee shop's.

1. Open Front Street Coffee's individually packageddrip coffee bagpackaging, and find the section with a dotted line that says OPEN HERE.
 

2. Tear along the OPEN dotted line, and hang the drip coffee bag on your favorite cup or container.

3. Prepare a pot of drinking water at 91°C. The net content of one bag of Front Street Coffee drip coffee is 10g. For the brewing ratio of drip coffee bags, Front Street recommends 1:15, so pouring 150ml of water gives the best flavor.
 

4. For the first pour, use a circular motion to roughly wet the entire coffee bed in the drip bag (about 20ml of water), then stop pouring and wait quietly for 20 seconds.

5. After 20 seconds, pour again in a circular motion until it reaches 150ml.
 

6. Finally, pick up the drip coffee bag and throw it away. You can add milk or sugar as appropriate according to your taste.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.