Espresso B ++, Brazil (ideal for fully automatic machines like Jura)

Espresso B stands for 100% Brazil, no blends, all credits to the producers. Great as espresso and for all your milky drinks.

The Barbosa family has been cultivating coffee on their estate since the early 1900s, ever since Elias Barbosa purchased the farm. Today it is his great-grandson, Danilo Barbosa, who runs it. Fazenda D’barbosa is 3322 hectares large, of which 983 are dedicated to coffee cultivation and more than 1000 to fauna and flora. Through this preservation of nature and wildlife, the D’Barbosa team actively invests in an environmentally sustainable production operation. Where technology is concerned, some aspects of harvest and processing deserve extra attention. All cherries on the Fazenda are picked through mechanical rakes that sense ripe cherries and wriggles them loose through vibration, dropping them into tarps that are spanned between the plants, for hand-picking is near impossible on a 983 ha large site. The cherries are then collected and brought to the on-site processing station where they’re aerobically fermented in big tanks for 48 to 72 hours, depending on several factors such as pH, temperature and variety. Finally the coffee is laid out to dry naturally on patios.

The terrain is located in Cerrado, Minas Gerais, a savanna, where coffee is cultivated between 900 and 1250 masl. The savanna is a tropical, vast grassland with patches of trees and small forests on it, a rainy and a dry season and a warm annual temperature. It is from this distinction between the rainy and dry season that the Cerrado region draws both its great cultivation circumstances and its unique flavours. In the dry season, the trees are forced to grow deeper roots and there they find plenty more nutrients. Brazil is the largest coffee growing country in the world and the Cerrado region is among its most acclaimed terroirs, offering flavours such as ripe red fruit, hazelnut and chocolate and full bodied cups. We have been annual partners of D’Barbosa since 2020 and in the past we’ve occasionally offered some of their highest scoring lots next to our standard, always excellent macrolot. 

We have sourced this coffee through our importing partner Sucafina.

MOK Coffee's Espresso B ++ hails from Fazenda D'Barbosa in Brazil's Cerrado region of Minas Gerais, where the 900–1250 meter altitude supports the development of balanced acidity and body. This washed-process coffee is specifically engineered for fully automatic espresso machines like Jura, which require consistent particle distribution and extraction behavior. The roaster highlights ripe red fruit, hazelnut, and chocolate in the cup—a profile typical of well-processed Brazilian coffees that blend sweetness with subtle earthiness. For those using automated espresso systems, this lot offers dependable performance alongside the approachable flavor complexity the Cerrado region is known for.