The advantages and disadvantages of growing coffee in Brazil are suitable for coffee-growing countries in Central and South America.

Brazil has many large farms, operating endless coffee plantations, they use machines to harvest, and use machines to dry, automated efficiency is very high, as if coffee as a general agricultural material, completely abandoned flavor and disregard. As a result, many specialty coffee companies simply do not sell Brazilian beans, lest they demean themselves. Brazilian santos still occasionally appear in select coffee shops, but they are bourban santos rather than the cheaper flat bean santos. Santos is a descendant of Bourbon, hence the name of the Port of Santos exit. This coffee tree in the first three or four years of the beginning of the fruit, the beans produced small and curved, excellent flavor, known as "Bourbon Santos." After that, the beans become larger, flat shape, no longer curved, become "flat bean Santos", flavor has been much less than before. In Taiwan, Brazilian coffee can be seen everywhere, but mostly flat beans Santos, in fact, Brazil still has good quality coffee beans, will be sold to the market under its own name, no longer known as "Brazilian coffee". Some farms still retain the old bourbon seed, the raw beans are small in size, curved, red in the center line, and marked with a red center. Bourbon beans taste full, rich aroma, like drinking old wine in general, it is worth a try