DAY 8

COFFEE INFO:

Producer - Marcelo Pereira Lima Verde

Varietal - Paraiso

Process - Natural

Origin - Brazil, Cerrado, Kaizen | K23-0010

Mel's Brew recipe:

Method: v60

Ratio: 15.5g in / 250g out

Grind: EK 7.8

Water temp: 94

50g bloom, wait 40s and slowly pour the remaining 200g of water(250tot) you should finish pouring arund 2m.

MORE INFO:

Kaizen, a word of Japanese origin, means “continuous improvement”. The Kaizen concept values the permanent search for improvement and simplicity, whether in the personal, family, social and work aspects. Marcelo Lima Verde, born in Patos de Minas, worked as an electrical engineer at ITA, with a professional life built in São Paulo and Uberlândia with his wife Sueli de Castro Bernardes, a psychiatrist. With the Kaizen concept in mind, they renamed the Fazenda Colônia Agrícola, received from Marcelo's parents, to Fazenda Kaizen.

In 2012 they begun the irrigated replanting of dry coffee crops originally planted by his paternal grandfather in the 70s, one of the pioneers in coffee culture in the Alto Paranaíba region. The focus of Fazenda Kaizen is the production of specialty coffees combined with conscious and technically well-oriented management, with the best practices for achieving environmental and economic sustainability with respect and attention to its team of employees and to the local community.

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