Flying Bean El Dorado - Brazil Alta Mogiana

Roasted by Flying Bean Coffee, a specialty roastery in Valencia, Spain (“Freshly roasted in Valencia”). “El Dorado” is a natural-processed Brazil from Alta Mogiana — the high plateau on the São Paulo / Minas Gerais border, one of Brazil’s longest-established specialty regions. The bag lists the variety only as “Varios” (several) and gives no SCA score, altitude or roast level.

The roaster lists Milk Chocolate, Hazelnut & Plum (the bag’s Spanish label reads Chocolate con Leche, Avellana & Ciruela). Expect a sweet, rounded, low-acid cup: milk chocolate and toasted hazelnut carrying the body, with a soft dark-fruit plum note from the natural process rather than any loud fermentation funk.

Medium roast, brewed at a constant 91.5°C — just under the usual medium window, because Alta Mogiana beans grow lower and softer than most of the database’s high-grown lots and give up their solubles easily; any hotter and the finish turns dry. The bloom runs wide (1:3) and long (40s), and slightly warmer at 92.5°C, to saturate the natural’s residual fruit sugars on a bag still actively degassing.