Arriving early-June 2021
Forward purchased 20 x 24kg of Daterra Farms Sweet Blue
Fourteen (14) units of Sweet Blue has been booked by Rogue Wave Coffee in Edmonton, Alberta
Six (6) units of Sweet Blue has been booked by Ethica Coffee Roasters in Toronto, Ontario
Daterra is one of the most sophisticated coffee operations we've ever had the pleasure of visiting. Located nearby to the city of Patrocinio, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This is the classic and famed Cerrado region of Brazil, where the fertile land is flat and proven ideal for coffee.
There is beauty in the systems that Daterra has established to produce their coffee. They've turned the farm into an intensive network of lots, all monitored individually, many with automated irrigation systems to ensure ideal nutrients and water are making it to the plants themselves.
When it comes time to harvest, Daterra will send members of the team to different lots to evaluate the cherry and will harvest small batches to strategize on when to harvest each individual varietal and ensure peak timing. The quality team will then make decisions on how to utilize each of these coffees and where on the menu they'll be used.
The Daterra menu is vast, with three tiers of offerings available, which Forward Coffee is proud to be the exclusive Canadian distributor of. The three tiers are Masterpieces, Collections and Classics.
Masterpieces are exotic, experimental and one-of-a-kind. Packed solely in patented Penta boxes (24.2kg vacuum seal)
Collections high-end consistent coffees that the quality team deems 86 - 89 points, packed solely in patented Penta boxes (24.2kg vacuum seal)
Classics are coffees that best depict the Cerrado region with quality scores between 80 - 86. These are consistent, value offerings available in 60kg bags.
Price per kilogram: 6.47 USD FOB
Process: Tree Dried Natural + Pulped Natural
Total kilos purchased: 484kg (20 x 24.2kg PentaBox)
Harvest date: July 2020
Fermentation: This lot is not intentionally fermented.
Drying time: ~6 days on patio followed by 30 hours in a drum drier
Drying temperature: 22°C Max. - 8°C Min.
Altitude: 1150 masl
Region: Cerrado, Brazil