Brazil Jazblu Peaberry

Dense, clean flavors — cocoa powder, roasted hazelnut, sweet dried fruits, and a touch of citrus. A medium-dark roast highlights cocoa bitterness and roasted nut notes, going lighter will bring uncover a bit more sweetness, while letting some pleasant citrus acidity shine through.

Peaberry coffee is a unique type of coffee bean that forms when only one of the two seeds inside a coffee cherry develops, creating a smaller, rounded bean instead of the typical flat-sided pair. This natural mutation, found in about 5-10% of coffee cherries, is often separated during processing for its distinctive qualities. Many attribute peaberry coffee’s heightened sweetness due to all of the coffee’s sugars accumulating into a single bean instead of two.

This fully washed coffee from the Planalto da Bahia region is sourced from a small cluster of farmers. In Brazil, where most producers stick to the traditional natural or pulped natural processing methods, it’s not always easy to find farmers who can offer washed coffee. That, along with how the blend represents the region’s diversity and microclimate, are what make our Jazblu Peaberry a unique experience for Brazilian coffee.

Planalto da Bahia doesn’t follow the clearly defined wet and dry seasons that most of Brazil enjoys. That means farmers have had to adapt to different rain patterns and develop their own approach to coffee harvesting and processing. Cherries are harvested by hand due to uneven maturation, pulped and fermented for 12-24 hours in tanks, and dried in greenhouses. Our sister company takes quality control a step further by screening and sorting the green coffee beans before packing and exporting the coffee to Genuine Origin’s warehouses.