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India, Where Coffee Came of Age

April 07, 2017

An hour before you need to leave for the airport, there is a knock at your hotel room door. You …

History

From Chewing to Brewing: The Fabled History of Ethiopian Coffee

March 27, 2017

Separate Ethiopia from coffee, the facts and the lore, and it remains one of the most fascinating regions in the …

Culture

The Road to Cup Tasters

March 24, 2017

This April, competitors from around the country will gather in Seattle, Washington, for the US Cup Tasters Championship (USCTC) where …

Strategy

Roaster’s Guide to Attending the Global Specialty Coffee Expo

March 17, 2017

Thirty-five years ago, in a room at Hotel Louisa in San Francisco, a small group of coffee roasters and importers …

History

The Evolution of the Cupping Lab

March 10, 2017

Whenever you cup test nickel-weight samples of a new chop from your jobber, grind to the fineness of corn-meal, have …

Strategy

Disciplined Buying for Better Business Health

March 03, 2017

Working on two sides of the specialty coffee industry since 1989—as a Coffee Roaster-Buyer, and now as a Green Coffee …

History

Tanzania Rising

February 24, 2017

The history of agriculture in developing countries over the last half of the twentieth century is wrought with the tragic …

History

The Eagle Has Landed: Specialty Coffee from Olam Brazil

February 17, 2017

In just ten years, we will celebrate 300 years of Brazilian coffee. For more than half of that time, Brazil …

Strategy

How to Buy Forward Using Contracts

February 03, 2017

Effective Strategies for Green Coffee Buyers – Part I. As a green coffee trader, I have a lot of conversations …

Strategy

Local is as Local Does

January 28, 2017

What does “local” mean? If you’re a surfer hiking to a new spot to surf and you come across a …

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Culture

Don’t Practice in Public, and Other Thoughts on Becoming a Roaster

February 21, 2019

For those of a certain age, those who were alive and listening to music before the arrival of MTV or …

Culture

Coffee Nerds: The Value of Scientific Study

May 25, 2017

In the early 2000’s, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations collaborated with the International Coffee Organization …

Strategy

Brand Identity Part 1: Nice Logo, Too Bad About the Coffee

January 18, 2018

There is a well known story among marketing folk about the iconic Nike logo. Forty-five years ago Carolyn Davidson, a …

Collaboration

Nicaragua’s Finca Los Papales: Above the City of Mist

August 30, 2018

So high are your glaucous hills of somber velvet, so white your bell tower, so white your carillon. Your mist, …

Culture

More Than Coffee BLOOMing in San Francisco

August 16, 2017

Olam sponsored, SCA Barista Guild Coffee Community Event If you’re looking to better understand or more fully appreciate the random …

History

El Salvador and the Grain of Gold

April 05, 2018

Whether it be the long shadow of colonialism or a shadow government controlled by oligarchical coffee barons who stop at …

History

New from Papua New Guinea

November 19, 2018

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), morning fog fills the valleys and the mountain peaks float above in …

Culture

The Road to Cup Tasters

March 24, 2017

This April, competitors from around the country will gather in Seattle, Washington, for the US Cup Tasters Championship (USCTC) where …

History

Burundi, Between the Sky and the Earth

November 02, 2017

There is an oral history in Burundi about Mwami Gisabo, King of Burundi from 1840 through the beginnings of colonialism …

Collaboration

What’s the Deal with Wet Hulled Coffee?

February 28, 2019

Indonesia is every sort of wet and always all kinds of “Basah.” Rain? Plenty of it, more than most places …

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A Nearly Brief and Wholly Circuitous Pre-History of SCA

Long Road. Long Miles. Burundi.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Coffee

“So, I’m Thinking About Starting a Roasting Business…”

From Chewing to Brewing: The Fabled History of Ethiopian Coffee

India, Where Coffee Came of Age

From Chewing to Brewing: The Fabled History of Ethiopian Coffee

The Road to Cup Tasters

Roaster’s Guide to Attending the Global Specialty Coffee Expo

The Evolution of the Cupping Lab

Disciplined Buying for Better Business Health

Tanzania Rising

The Eagle Has Landed: Specialty Coffee from Olam Brazil

How to Buy Forward Using Contracts

Local is as Local Does

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