PDG Brasil Thriving With Local Audiences
You can’t discuss coffee without discussing Brazil. The country is unrivalled in its capacity to produce coffee and consumes more of it than most nations ...read more
Catuai & Yellow Bourbon: Exploring Brazil’s Coffee Varieties
Brazil dominates the coffee industry. It’s responsible for roughly a third of the coffee we drink. One single state in Brazil, Minas Gerais, produces more ...read more
The Arara Variety: What Is It & Why Is It Popular in Brazil?
The choice of variety affects a coffee’s flavor, productivity, and required farming conditions. Consumers are often excited to try varieties such as Geisha/Gesha, while producers ...read more
Perfect Daily Grind to Launch PDG Brasil in April 2020
Perfect Daily Grind is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of our newest sister publication: PDG Brasil. Filled with educational and informative articles written in ...read more
Coffee Processing: Exploring Naturals, Pulped Naturals, & Honeys
What unites naturals, pulped naturals, and honeys? They dry with all or some of the cherry attached. But what separates them? Quite a lot. Broadly ...read more
Why Caparaó, Brazil Is Winning Specialty Coffee Awards
Caparaó, Brazil has been increasingly present on specialty coffee shop menus. Producers are focusing on quality and, as a result, their coffees are ranking high ...read more
Can Coffee Quality & Environmental Sustainability Go Hand in Hand?
The future of coffee production is tied to a healthy environment. Climate change poses a threat to the amount of fertile land available for farmers ...read more
Inside World Coffee Producers Forum 2019
Last week, on July 10th and 11th, one of the most important events related to coffee production took place in Brazil. The second World Coffee ...read more
Will Brazil’s Sudden Frost Increase Global Coffee Prices?
A recent frost in Brazil’s coffee-producing regions had the coffee industry in hot debate at this year’s World Producers Forum and elsewhere. At first impression, ...read more
Taking a Look at Brazil’s Specialty Coffee Industry During ICW
Welcome to Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer. What happens here shapes the coffee industry around the globe. So it’s no surprise that 20,000 people ...read more
Understanding Single Origin, Single Farm & Micro/Nano Lot Coffee
Quality, traceability, direct trade, fairer prices, exotic profiles, experimental processing: these are just a few of the positive things associated with single origin and micro ...read more
Introducing Belo Horizonte, Brazil: A Capital of Coffee
Welcome to Belo Horizonte, Brazil: a coffee-lover’s paradise. The city is the capital of Minas Gerais, a state that produces more coffee than any other ...read more
Coffee Industry Looks to Brazil as It Hosts 4 World Championships
2018 will be a good year for Brazil and International Coffee Week (ICW): the SCA just announced that the country will host the World Brewer’s Cup ...read more
What Is a Coffee Cooperative & How Does It Support Producers?
Across the world, you’ll find coffee being produced, processed, and sold in cooperatives. But what is a coffee cooperative? How does it work? And how ...read more
Specialty vs Commodity: How Yield, Quality, & Prices Interact
Coffee prices are complex, whether they’re specialty or commodity. Profit margins are even more so. Yield, quality, supply and demand, and harvest conditions all affect ...read more
What’s The Future of Brazilian Coffee? Recapping ICW 2017
International Coffee Week Brazil (ICW): a three-day coffee festival in the world’s biggest coffee-producing country (by volume), bringing together the country’s best beans and professionals ...read more