1kg Brazil - Amanda Galheri

We love to explore the full delicious spectrum of flavours specialty coffee has to offer, but we also know there’s a time and a place for a mug of something easy and familiar. This is a seasonal, single-origin fully traceable Brazil with an easy drinking profile: nutty, chocolatey, mellow, sweet and full bodied. It’ll be an easy dial-in and a crowd pleaser with or without milk.

Our Brazil is only available in the great value 1kg size or as a subscription. If you want little and often you can get our Basecamp Subscription HERE. Available as whole bean only. 

Tasting Notes: A solidly sweet, balanced Brazilian cup profile with notes of roasted hazelnut and buttery caramel complemented by a full, creamy mouthfeel. 

Producer: Amanda Galheri Region: Cerrado Altitude: 1,100 masl Varietal: Catuaí Process: Natural

Landed UK: November 2025

Amanda Galheri’s delicious coffee is back for a second year. We returned to it for its high quality, reliable flavour profile, which our customers love. This coffee is the perfect single-origin espresso and will especially shine in milky drinks.

Amanda Galheri, who grew this coffee and is a member of Expocacer, is a third-generation coffee producer from Paraná who moved to Cerrado with her family after the historic frost in the late 1970s. Since childhood, she has been interested in coffee and was encouraged by her father, Mauro Galheri, to focus on quality as a way to add more value to their product. Over the past decade, Amanda has become increasingly involved in the production of specialty coffee lots. In 2023, she was recognized as one of three champions in Expocacer’s quality competition.

This lot of Catuai was selectively harvested so that only beans of uniform maturity and high enough sucrose content were processed. The first day after picking, the beans were spread on a patio and regularly turned. From the second day onward, they were arranged in pyramid-shaped rows and left to rest, encouraging light fermentation and a gradual increase in sugar levels. For the next 18 days, Galheri alternates between allowing the beans full sun exposure, which dries them out, and covering them with black canvas, which allows for more fermentation. Once the moisture content reached 11.8 percent, she packed this lot into big bags and left it to rest in the farm’s shed for 20 days before processing. Finally, the coffee was processed and graded at Expocacer’s mill to remove the dried skin, fruit and parchment, which is the inner protective layer around the beans.

Variety

Catuai is a variety we often gravitate toward when we’re cupping Brazilian coffees. We love its clean, very sweet, flavour profile. It’s also easier than some other varieties to roast well. Our roaster was recently on a webinar with roasting consultant and author Rob Hoos where he remarked on the variety’s large and forgiving sweet spot.

There are several lines of this compact, high yielding variety grown in Brazil. A cross between Mundo Novo and Caturra created in 1949 and released in 1972, it’s also grown in Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Its popularity grew in the 70s and 80s because its small stature allows it to be planted densely and harvested more efficiently. These qualities led in part to the intensification of full-sun coffee cultivation in Central America at that time.

The variety is highly susceptible to leaf rust, which makes it less desirable to grow, but according to World Coffee Research the national coffee institute in Honduras, IHCAFE, is pursuing breeding programs with Catuai including creating hybrid crosses between Catuai and Timor Hybrid lines, which could mitigate disease risk.

Country

As the largest exporter of Arabica coffee in the world, Brazil’s coffee sector has a huge impact on global prices, which have been fluctuating wildly over the last several years. After spiking in 2022 and continuing to break records throughout 2024, prices reached higher than ever in both April and August

This natural-processed Catuaí from Cerrado, Brazil, showcases what natural processing can bring to the cup—in this case, a mellow sweetness and full body anchored by roasted hazelnut and buttery caramel notes. Amanda Galheri's lot balances nutty and chocolatey character with approachable smoothness, making it a versatile choice for both filter and espresso applications. Steampunk Coffee has dialed in a profile that emphasizes the varietal's inherent sweetness without overwhelming the palate, resulting in a coffee that feels both indulgent and refined.