Pink Sky at Night – Sample

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter, Chemex or cafetiere.

Head over to our brew guides for making coffee for more.

This coffee was cultivated in the renowned Cerrado Mineiro region, in Brazil. This is one of their top coffee-producing states, growing 5 million sacks of coffee a year. Its high altitudes, perfect climate, and steady rainfall make it the ideal place for growing specialty Arabica. However, it wasn’t always so picture perfect!

Coffee was first brought to the Cerrado Mineiro region in the 1970s by farmers who had to leave the neighbouring state of Paraná due to a devastating frost which destroyed their coffee farms in one catastrophic wave. They were also joined by other communities from São Paulo who had an infestation of nematodes (roundworms), which had also destroyed their crops. Their goal was to start anew and make Cerrado Mineiro their new home.

However, the soil in this region did not hold suitable levels for the coffee plant. But there was a solution: liming. This is a technique used to correct soil acidity. This involves spreading calcium and magnesium-rich materials over the soil to neutralise acidity and improve the Ph levels.

Once complete, they irrigated the area to return moisture to the soil, and large-scale cultivation began! From here, the focus was on quality, and they became the pioneers of specialty coffee!

With each and every coffee we source, it must have a quality score. This quality score determines if a coffee can be granted its ‘speciality’ title. The coffee must receive a score of 80 or above to gain the name. Have a look at our page about coffee cupping to see exactly how we do it here at Two Chimps Coffee.

As roasters of speciality coffee, we never ‘over roast’ any of our coffees. The roasting process is our chance to show off the awesome natural flavours and aromas found within the coffee. If coffee is roasted too dark, these natural flavours and aromas can be hidden and instead replaced with burnt and bitter tastes. The coffees we source are of very high quality. This gives us the opportunity to showcase the flavours during the roast rather than hiding them. Our coffees all have a natural sweetness and are never burnt or bitter.

All ten of our ethically sourced coffees are all completely different from each other. The farmers and workers who grow, nurture and harvest our coffees constantly produce faultless coffee beans. Our job? To roast them to their full potential.

Nuts and Bolts

Roast Style: Medium

Location: Cerrado Mineiro

Varietal(s): Catuai, Mundo Novo

Processing: Natural

Altitude: 900-1250 metres above sea level

Country: Brazil

Certification: Speciality

Score: 80

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

New to Two Chimps Coffee, or have you bought speciality coffee from us before? Either way, you’re helping out coffee farmers in countries all over the world.  Here at Two Chimps, we always pay between 30 and 150% more than the ‘going rate’ for our green coffee. By doing so, the coffee farmers get paid more for their crop. This, in turn, leads to the farmers having more opportunities, for instance, a better chance of an even better harvest next year.

Keeping the supply chain short is a big thing for us. The shorter we can make the chain, the more we can be sure goes back to the farm.

So, thank you. We applaud you. Keep up the great work!