Brazil, Daterra, Swiss Water Decaf

Producer: Daterra

Location: Cerrado

Process: Swiss Water Decaffeination

Altitude: 910-1220 masl

Certification: B Corp, Rainforest Alliance

A classic Brazil profile, smooth, good body, easy drinking. Caramel, milk chocolate, toasted almonds

A smooth and well balanced coffee that is suited to all brewing methods including espresso

With 3500 hectares as protected forest, Daterra are carbon negative and the first BCorp coffee producer in the world.

Daterra itself is three farms, Boa Vista, Taboues and Franca. Each lot is differentiated – soil, aspect, varietal, hours of sun all differ slightly over the farms as anywhere. Each lot is also subdivided into 1-5 hectare sectors and assigned their own agronomist in charge of it, logging data and making sure everything runs smoothly and to plan. In total this amounts to 42 agronomists looking after 560 sectors.

With a shared history in the automotive industry, engineers at Daterra have been able to specifically modify the mechanical pickers, around 40 machines in total. Once picked cherries are processed by UNIPAC- a system that very precisely pulps the coffee under water pressure specific to maturation level, or sorts for natural processing according to flotation, screen size, and maturation level, which was also developed by Daterra. Once finally processed, there are 3 more colour sorters for the final green beans.

Separate machines have been developed to clean up afterwards and gather the sweepings and fallen beans. These are processed in their own processing mill to maintain cleanliness of the Unipac system.

Only coffees the farm deems as speciality can be branded Daterra. A micro mill also exists for the experimental and Masterpiece lots. This has the ability to ferment under airlock, in the dark, or with the addition of yeasts and adjuncts. It can be cleaned and sterilised too as is stainless steel. Washing channels, raised beds and a separate dry mill specifically targeted for maintaining quality on smaller batches also lies in the warehouse nearby.