Casa Brasil Coffee now at Spider House! We are very excited to announce that we are now roasting coffee for Spider House and added a new face to the Casa Brasil Merit-Scholarships. Spider House chose to sponsor Camila Miriam da Silva, pictured below on their organic family coffee farm in Poço Fundo, Brazil. If you [...]
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Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of legendary Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at various interpretations of one of his most famous works, Bachiana No. 5 Bachianas Brasileiras Consists of nine suites written between 1935-1945, Villa-Lobos combined Brazilian music with that of Johann Sebastian [...]
For the sake of a blog title, I force the stereotype that all producers like country music (or at least all those from whom we bought coffee). Probably not true; however, probably not far from it either. The point of this entry is to give you a better sense of the culture of the coffee [...]
Since we have revamped the blog, we will bring back some of the fun blogs and contests from blogs past. Here is one of them – the She Car Tires Ad Campaign Contest. There is a tire shop in Varginha , Brazil called She Car Tires. We will send a free can of coffee to [...]
I was able to swing by the Ouvidor bookstore in Belo Horizonte this past trip to Minas and picked up several books, including this one on Milton Nascimento. Hopefully this will make its way into English. Written by fellow Três Pontas native Maria Dolores, it traces Milton’s biography from his father’s path to Rio [...]
