Brazil

This lot comes from Coopama, a cooperative in the town of Machado, tucked into the rolling hills of Sul de Minas. Around 3,600 farming families grow coffee together there, most of them small family farms working hillside plots handed down through generations. The co-op has been at it since 1944, and their coffee now travels to more than a dozen countries — including, as of this week, one air roaster in Lincoln, Nebraska.

It's a natural process coffee, meaning the cherries dry whole in the Minas sun before the seed is ever separated from the fruit. That's where the deep sweetness and the round, syrupy body come from. The "16+" is a size grade: larger, evenly sorted beans, which is exactly what our Sivetz likes to see. Even beans, even roast, clean cup.