Beira-Douro Cafés
Beira Douro Cafés is a small family business located near Porto, in Portugal.
The history of Beira Douro Cafés is a story of passion and love for coffee and its art. It began in 1960 with the creation of the company by Manuel Lapa, an enterprising man with a deep knowledge of the art and science of making good coffee.
It is currently run by the second and third generations of the Lapa family, who maintain the entrepreneurial spirit and commitment of their founder. Like an excellent coffee, Beira Douro is a company with a strong personality all of its own.
From the outset, it set itself a single goal: to offer a product with a quality on a par with the best coffees in the world.
To guarantee a product of excellence, the company combines three key factors: careful selection of raw materials, through relationships of partnership and trust with producers; advanced technological means and the know-how of a highly specialized team.
This combination makes Beira Douro Cafés a company with a unique flavor. Much more than a coffee, Beira Douro is coffee with art!
Their mission is to produce coffees of excellence based on rigorous partnerships and the art of know-how, promoting trust and customer satisfaction.
The Beira-Douri coffees Each blend is specially designed to stimulate your senses and help discovering the flavors and sharp character of their coffees. They will go wherever it takes to get a quality coffee of distinctive excellence. The combination of the best arabica with the best robusta results in unique batches, encouraging them to travel around the four corners of the world.
Each coffee bean in its habitat is the result of a set of very particular natural conditions, such as latitude, altitude, soil, precipitation rate and temperature.
But it is also an outcome of human procedures. The role of those who take care of the land, of each coffee plant, of each bean, is absolutely crucial.
In Beira Douro they respect all efforts endeavoured in order to transform raw coffee into roasted coffee by way of the roasting process. It is a delicate process that requires art and mastery.
Once roasted, coffee has a relatively short shelf life due to the migration of aromatic oils to the surface of the bean. In contact with air, coffee oxidizes and ages easily. It is at this point that the type of packaging used is crucial. Thus, immediately after roasting, the coffee is packed in technologically effective packaging in order to preserve all its sensory characteristics.