Burundian coffee is beginning to traverse the celebrated path blazed by neighboring Rwanda, as this year's inaugural Cup of Excellence auction shows. Rather than being differentiated by farm, these lots are associated with...
Ethiopian coffees can be like rough gemstones, their great genetic potential held back by a lack of modernity in processing. Our friends at the coffee sourcing house Ninety Plus have been busy polishing: meticulously...
To understand Ecuador’s place in the specialty coffee world, it’s helpful to first visualize a skinny musical theater geek vying for attention next to his square-jawed, football-chucking twin brothers. Ecuador,...
We first encountered Cerro Gacho through Honduras’ Cup of Excellence auction in 2011, and continue to be so enamored of farmer Jose Luis Medrano's coffee that we bought every cherry he produced this year. Medrano has...
New Orleans-style iced coffee and chicory- There's been a certain amount of clamoring, yes clamoring, for a way to make our new orleans-style iced coffee at home. here we are: a kit! we'll set you up with a pound of the...
We often roast our Mexican coffees at two levels to attain a certain harmony. The marriage of heavy body and bright levity that results when lighter and darker versions of the same coffee are combined is to coffee what...
Here’s an unfortunate truth about Rwandan coffees: Because of the country’s turbulent history – its colonial past, its 1994 genocide – discussions about them tend to fixate overwhelmingly on the...
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