This single origin coffee from Brazil is our darkest roasted coffee. Featuring a surprising sweetness backlit by our long development of the caramelization process, which brings forward a creamy, toasted sugar quality. Our darkest roasted single origin coffee, we bring it right to the brink of “second crack”, stopping short of burning the bean, when caramelization is just past its peak. Named after a piece from Brazilian-born American artist Ibraim Nascimento’s Santo series, Menino Deus is the perfect coffee for a darker espresso that effortlessly cuts through steamed milk or a stiff cup of black drip coffee.
Profile
Flavor notes: Sugar cane, creme brulee, papaya
Roasting notes: Our darkest roast
Region
These Mundo Novo, Yellow Catuai, Red Catuai, and Acaia varietals are grown in the Cerrado region of Mines Gerais, Brazil at 915-1219 meters above sea level, then mechanically dried and naturally fermented.
Story
The rich soil the coffee is grown in is known by their indigenous people as “Terra Roxa,” or red earth, and factors such as consistent rains, high daytime temperatures, and dry winters combine to make the Cerrado region ideal for producing coffee.
These stories also remind us of the long burn of colonialism and slavery that brought Africans to the Americas. Through tragic circumstances, humans still manage to create beauty and strength by mixing cultures, people, and traditions. The Santos series celebrates the unique amalgam of African, Brazilian, and European cultures that shape the Afro-Brazilian experience. This coffee reflects on the conventional religious concepts that were refined by heat and pressure over time to shape something wholly new.
Nascimento’s work is “fundamentally embodied… with each brush stroke he shares a piece of his journey, from his upbringing in Bahia to his migration into the United States. Ibraim’s art is meant to invoke emotion and connection and is as much performance as it is acrylic on canvas. While Ibraim’s work is deeply connected to Brazil, he rediscovered himself in the Latinx and Black art communities of Houston."
