The Daily Grind: Café, Amigos e Rio - Beyond the Boardroom ✨

Wake up and smell the magnificent convergence, coffee comrades! Our May selection brings flavors so powerful they've created a disturbance in the coffee world! Spring has officially sprung, and our beans are blooming with possibilities more exciting than my houseplants that somehow survived winter.

Bean There, Found That: A Coffee Awakening

Our May lineup continues its love affair with Latin America—written in liquid gold so mesmerizing it could convince anyone to drop everything they're doing. We've curated beans from three origins with more character development than your favorite trilogy: the mystical mountains of Cajamarca, Peru, the lush paradise of Comayagua, Honduras, and the volcanic wonderland of El Salvador. Each origin brings its own spectacular storyline that's been unfolding for generations!

The Flavor Passport

Peruvian Prowess: These Cajamarca beans deliver almond and chamomile notes that don't just dance—they perform an entire Broadway show on your palate, complete with lime acidity doing high kicks and honey undertones providing the sweet soundtrack. The green melon finish arrives like the perfect encore—leaving you applauding for more! No magic required to convince you this is exceptional.

Honduran Happiness: Our Comayagua selection wields maple syrup sweetness with the precision of a master chef—it's basically breakfast in liquid form, minus the guilty calories! Dark chocolate depth plays the sophisticated counterpart while walnut adds that friend-who-keeps-things-interesting complexity. With nectarine brightness bringing everything into harmony and a buttery texture that feels like sliding into silk sheets, this coffee doesn't just satisfy—it makes your morning commute feel like you've suddenly been teleported to a tropical paradise!

El Salvador Elegance: These beans showcase caramel sweetness that flirts shamelessly with dark chocolate richness, while cherry notes photobomb the flavor party like unexpected guests crashing a fancy dinner. The unexpected star? A cashew butter creaminess that gives this coffee a texture so velvety it should come with its own red carpet. Each sip starts with a dazzling entrance and finishes with a sweetness that lingers longer than the memory of your first coffee crush.

The People Behind the Pour: The Great Brazilian Coffee Convergence

My Rio adventure wasn't just a trip—it felt like that scene in your favorite show where all the characters finally meet after years of separate storylines! That surreal moment when Marcos pulled up to the hotel, and we both froze like time itself had glitched—the bizarre reality of meeting someone in-person after only existing in each other's screens created a cosmic hiccup worthy of the best fiction. "Is this actually happening?" vibes collided with "Oh, you're a real 3D person!" energy in a moment that perfectly captured the strange joy of modern friendships.

Meeting Vitor, my new colleague from Rio who I can count on like a loyal friend in any adventure, at Mimo Café felt like discovering coffee has a fourth dimension. Meanwhile, reuniting with Bailey after our 2023 cliffhanger completed our ensemble cast for a Brazilian adventure with more authentic connection than any blockbuster could deliver.

Picture this: a sweltering Rio afternoon, two grown professionals (yours truly and Marcos) engaged in an epic Apple Pay showdown over who gets to purchase sorvete, both desperately jabbing phones at a bewildered vendor while Marcos' little one captured the entire ridiculous spectacle for posterity. This wasn't just making memories—this was creating legendary content that will definitely resurface at future gatherings! No special effects required for this level of entertainment.

Our Mimo Café summit transcended the usual "colleagues catching up" energy—this was friendship alchemy, transforming digital connections into gold-standard relationships through the magical catalyst of exceptional coffee and face-to-face laughter. From fancy pourover to espresso shots, our circle of friends created a coffee moment worthy of its own streaming special.

Roasting Reflections: The Authenticity Revolution

This month's roast channels the electric energy of genuine connection—the kind that happens when you finally meet someone you've known through screens and discover they're even more fascinating in person (and wonderfully three-dimensional). Each batch carries the spirit of our Rio reunions, where pretense evaporated faster than the steam from our espressos.

As you brew these beans, consider who in your life deserves the gift of your unfiltered authenticity. Like perfectly roasted coffee that needs no enhancement, there's extraordinary power in showing up exactly as you are—complex, unique, and worthy of appreciation. Love with an open book, sharing your story as freely as you would offer a perfectly brewed cup. And in those moments of genuine connection, use that strength to rise higher, elevating both yourself and those around you through the simple but profound act of being real.

The beauty of real connection, like these meticulously sourced beans, is that it reveals layers of flavor over time. Sometimes nutty, occasionally surprising, occasionally challenging—but always worth the experience. After all, what's the point of having incredible coffee if not to share it with your own personal crew of amazing humans?

Come taste these worldly beans before June arrives with new adventures. After all, my Rio coffee carnival taught me that the most unforgettable moments happen when we drop the professional filters, embrace joyful authenticity, and create spaces where friendships can bloom alongside exceptional coffee.

To those who have enjoyed Three Points Coffee in Rio, a heartfelt obrigado for your incredible support and for allowing me to share this journey with you. Your welcoming smiles, warming conversations, and unparalleled hospitality transformed what could have been just another business trip into a profound experience of connection. The way you've embraced visitors like myself with open arms embodies everything special about coffee culture—bringing people together across backgrounds, languages, and continents with genuine warmth that lingers far longer than the taste of even the finest beans.

As they say in Brazil, "Obrigado por abrir meus olhos e minha mente" thank you for opening my eyes and my mind. It's a reminder to always be thankful and grateful for these precious moments of connection that, like the perfect cup of coffee, are both fleeting and eternal in their impact.

May your cup always runneth over with joy!

Caffeinated and captivated by life's connections.

Simon