What should i expect from coffees from the Americas?

Coffee from the Americas are often have much more chocolatey, nutty flavours from them. Most coffees from the Americas, like Brazilian coffees, are very common in lots of espresso blends, due to their much more familiar flavour profiles to the average coffee drinker. Brazil and Colombia produce a huge amount of the worlds coffee volume, whilst not all coffee from Brazil and Colombia will taste the same, more chocolate, caramel and nuts are flavours that are most common to be found in South and Central American coffees. 

No beans are the same though, with such a variety in growing climates in the Americas, wildly different flavours can be found from coffees from Colombia for example, due to the drastic differences in altitudes of growing regions. Coffees from the Americas are often the most crowd pleasing coffee, and for good reason! Who doesn't like a coffee that tastes like chocolate? If you enjoy milk based coffee drinks, coffees from the Americas are a great place to find a cup of coffee you enjoy.

Roasting American coffees to a more medium to darker medium roast degree helps to highlight the amazing natural sweetness and body that is found in lots of great American coffees. Brazilian coffees are an excellent example of coffee that is roasted to shine through espresso, particularly well balanced with or without milk. 

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Sustainability has become a real buzzword in the coffee industry. For us, sustainability is at the heart of what we want to aim towards as a social enterprise, and this goes far beyond increasing the amount we recycle and minimising waste (although this is still very important). To maximise our impact, at Brew Crew we constantly consider sustainability throughout the entire supply chain, and assess where we can make a difference at each stage. So what exactly does this mean ?

Like the coffee we buy, our focus on sustainability has to begin at origin. This is often overlooked, but a large proportion of the carbon produced from coffee, is done so during farming and transportation. This is a big reason why our sourcing strategy is so important to us. By developing long-term trading relationships with farmers and cooperatives, and ensuring we pay well above Fairtrade prices, we can make sure that we give farmers the financial stability they need to be able to invest in sustainable farming practices and reduce their impact on the environment. To go even further, many of our projects also provide farms and cooperatives with additional means of reducing their impact on the environment at the heart of coffee production. By co-funding projects, such as our reforestation project with Copaíba in Brazil, we provide tangible impact to do our bit to ensure that the coffee industry, and the planet, is here to stay.

Once we have purchased our coffee for fair prices in sustainable trading relationships, and supported projects at origin, we minimise our impact on the environment wherever we can once it gets to us. None of our packaging needs to go to landfill, and is available in fully compostable or recyclable packaging. We also help our wholesale partners to operate sustainably From supplying the most energy efficient machines and providing fully compostable packaging, to encouraging more efficient barista work flow to minimise waste and cost, we do all we can to keep our waste and our impact on the environment as low as possible.

Committing portions of all our coffee sales is our way of ensuring we pass back some of the value added at the end of supply chain in coffee. Partnering with our importers and award winning NGO's means we can ensure we are contributing to meaningful causes, that will pave a more sustainable future for the coffee industry.