Apas - Espresso from Brazil

For uncomplicated enjoyment. Nutty, chocolaty, low in acid. A classic espresso with a heavy body and long aftertaste. 100% Brazil, 100% APAS cooperative.

Apas - Coffee Info

Taste: Hazelnut, Milk Chocolate, Low Acid

Origin of the beans: Brazil, São Gonçalo do Sapucaí

Producers: cooperative APAS

Varieties: Local varieties such as Mondo Novo (Arabica) and Catuai (Arabica)

Post-harvest process: Natural

Certification: Organic (DE-ÖKO-039)

All our coffees are sold as whole beans.

This is how we would prepare Apas

Water : total hardness 5 °dH, alkalinity 3 °dH

Machine: Ascaso Steel Duo PID

Mill: Niche Zero

Grinding degree: 15

Why does Apas taste the way it tastes?

The APAS blend is a blend of coffees from various members of the APAS cooperative. 71 members have formed a group to market their coffee together under the APAS brand. In the region of São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, they grow a wide variety of varieties and, with the cooperative and as individual producers, are repeatedly successful in coffee competitions such as the Cup of Excellence. The coffee cherries for the APAS blend were dried on the patio and then mechanically pulped. This post-harvest process underlines the nutty and chocolatey notes of this coffee.

Tell me more about Apas Espresso

In our barista training courses, we needed a coffee that would meet many users where they are at the moment. It should be a solid coffee, low in acid, easy to adjust, forgiving and yet clearly different from a mass product. Our Felix visited our partners at the APAS cooperative in Brazil in 2018 and tasted a number of coffees. This coffee, a blend from the APAS members, convinced Felix and met all the criteria we set for the coffee.

Why did we buy Apas?

We got to know APAS through our friends from algrano , who handle the majority of the green coffee processing for us. APAS was the first cooperative to believe in algrano's platform approach and is now increasingly marketing its coffee and its story digitally itself.

After an initial purchase of around 2000kg of green coffee in 2018, Felix traveled to Brazil, where he laid the foundation for a fruitful collaboration with Maurico, Alessandro and Ademilson. The three founded the cooperative and have now found 71 producers who identify with the work of APAS.

We are supporting Apas in switching to organic farming and will be purchasing almost all of their organic production from summer 2022.

You can find out more about organic coffee in Brazil and APAS in our blog .

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