Cafezinho

Also café brasileiro

Brazil's small, strong, sweet filter coffee offered to every guest. Sugar goes into the water before it meets the coffee.

FilterServed hotFrom Brazil

Volume
60ml2.0 US fl oz
Espresso
0shots
Caffeine
24mgderived, USDA FDC
Glass
Demitasse80 ml

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Demitasse, 80 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. sweetened water boiled…60 ml100%
Volume
60ml
Caffeine
24mg
Espresso
0shots

Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.

Strong and sweet: sugar dissolved in the brewing water, poured through a cloth 'coador' over finely ground coffee into small cups.

Caffeine

Derived
24mg

in a 60 ml cafezinho

USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 60 ml.

USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26

A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.

Variants by country

2
NameCountryHow it differs
tintoColombiaColombian small black coffee.
bicaPortugalPortuguese espresso.

History

Popular account

Brazil's hospitality coffee, offered to any visitor; the Wikidata items under this name are a radio programme and an organisation, so no QID is assigned. We have not found a primary source for this account.

Brazil; 'little coffee'.

Popular account

Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.

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