Ipe Amarelo Minas Gerais 16+

Ipe Amarelo Minas Gerais 16+ is StoneX Specialty’s premiere Brazil profile. Designed to be consistently delicious both throughout the year and harvest to harvest, we work closely with our counterparts in Brazil to craft this blend. We source the components for Ipe Amarelo from both Cerrado de Mineiro and Sul de Minas, both regions within the state of Minas Gerais. Because harvests are slightly different every year, we do not work with any specific farm or region but carefully select lots to ensure we are matching the profile exactly.

As part of our Flower Series, we take great pride in ensuring Ipe Amarelo exemplifies the best what Brazil can offer for the Minas Gerais profile.

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world, producing approximately 60 million bags per year, and the US imports about 8 million bags per year, which makes them the largest supplier of coffee to the US. They achieve this feat through geography and advanced agronomy. Brazilian farms tend to have flatter elevations, less shade cover, and more manicured fields. They also use mechanical harvesters and produce far more coffee per hectare than other origins.

Coffee in Minas Gerais grows between 800-1300 meters above sea level and has very distinct rainy and dry seasons, creating the distinctive coffee of the region. Most coffee in Brazil is a natural process. Unlike other natural processed coffee, like Central American microlots, it is not fermented for fruity flavors and tends to have the heavier body and lower acidity that makes it the preferred blender base for roasters all over the world.