The Crown Jewel program started humbly in August of 2016 with a small suite of coffees we’d grown familiar with and were proud to share, and a small-scale version of our current analysis project. For all the years, the hundreds of coffees and thousands of...
Editor’s note: Lowell Powell, partner to Royal’s Marketing & Outreach Director and Catracha Coffee Founder Mayra Orellana-Powell, is the architect of the Catracha Quality Project and a driver behind many of the coffee processing innovations taking...
Foreword by Chris Kornman The story of Alfred Klein and Royal Coffee is a long one, best heard in the words of Don Alfred himself, and that of Royal’s cofounder Bob Fulmer. Bob and I struck up a brief conversation about the coffees and the farm a couple of years ago,...
Staff Picks! We covered most of the globe and most of the flavor spectrum this week in Staff Picks. From a resplendent decaffeinated Ethiopian Sidamo 4 Natural Guji to a freshly landed Peruvian FTO, there’s something for a diversity of palates. Taste in coffee...
Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on Daily Coffee News here on December 5, 2016. One of my favorite things about coffee is the potential for a multitude of experiences and opinions. No two people experience a coffee the same way, and...
At Royal we cup twice every day and we carry just about every kind of specialty coffee out there. I’ve seen it all – so it isn’t every day that a coffee really grabs my attention. The coffees that do – are inspiring. I’m sharing a few of these...