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The Problem with Plastic
The Problem with Plastic (and single use cups) Part I: Our Plastic Reality I am lucky enough to know some real, sweat-and-blood environmental activists, or environmental warriors. These are people who live zero-waste and plastic-free lifestyles, who organize beach clean-ups, protest for water...
An Update on the C Market and Global Production Forecasts
C Market Update - November 19, 2018 After a summer of undeterred collapse reaching just below the $1 mark, the C market spent October rebuilding its configuration with a sharp recovery to $1.2920. Despite our best wishes for the futures benchmark’s health, there is little change in the underlying...
2018 – 2019 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule
Dear Royal Customer, The 2017-2018 Holidays are in full swing! Do you have your beans for the busy season yet? To help plan ahead, our awesome outbound team has organized a list of important closure dates for our U.S. warehouses and most popular carriers for your immediate reference down below....
Holding our Breath for the 2019 Catracha Harvest
November has arrived and that means we are finally entering the cold dry season here in Santa Elena. While many parts of Honduras are gearing up for the harvest, we are still a solid two months away from our first pick, which generally starts in the first weeks of January. Meanwhile, we wait,...
Ethiopia Origin Trip 2018
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Current Offerings: Focus on Women Producers
Editor's Note: Since we published this article about two years ago, demand for coffee grown by women producers has grown tremendously. We're so very honored to work with these incredible women. I want to use this space to highlight Royal's current offerings from women producers. Now more than...
Coffee Drinks from Around the World: Getting to the Root of Chicory
Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on September 15 and September 18, 2018. By Sandra Elisa Loofbourow Lately, I’ve been writing about how people dress up their coffee in various parts of the world, as well as how people consumed...
More from ASIC Portland on the Cutting Edge of Coffee Science
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on October 10, 2018; it is reprinted here with permission. Following a dizzying week of coffee science learning in mid-September at the Association for Science and Information on Coffee (ASIC) biennial symposium in Portland, Oregon, I...
Major Takeaways on Coffee Science from ASIC Portland
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on October 3, 2018; it is reprinted here with permission. Baristas, roasters and cuppers, myself included, are quick to invoke the contributions of art and science in our field. Growing, processing, roasting, brewing, and sensory...
History of Green Coffee Extract + Recipes – One of Coffee’s First Brew Methods
Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on September 15 and September 18, 2018. By Chris Kornman & Sandra Elisa Loofbourow Part I - Green Coffee Extract was the First Wave By Chris Kornman In Yemen’s port of Aden around the middle...
Good Food Awards 2019
This was my first year as Co-Chair for the Good Food Awards, hosted by the Good Food Foundation which exists “to celebrate, connect, empower, and leverage the passionate and engaged, yet often overlooked, players in the food system who are driving towards tasty, authentic, and responsible food in...
Café Touba
There is a wealth of diversity in the way people prepare and consume coffee around the world. The cultural exchange that comes out of international interaction, and especially out of colonization, creates new traditions like Café de Olla, a Mexican beverage I’ve written about previously. These new...
Café de Olla
Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on August 7 and August 14, 2018. For a limited time, you can enjoy our version of this beverage at The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room Café de Olla: Native to Mestizo Mexico In many...
Treading Water: A Practical H2O Guide for Coffee Professionals – Part II: The Sensory Data
Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on August 29, 2018 Treading Water A Practical H2O Guide for Coffee Professionals Part II - The Sensory Data In the first half of this series, we took a shallow dive into the deep pool of information on the chemistry and...
Producer Interview: Miriam Monteiro de Aguiar from Brazil & Hirut Berhanu from Ethiopia
Royal sources coffee from every corner of the globe and I am always amazed at how much all of us at origin have in common despite the vast distances between us. I recently interviewed two women working in the coffee industry, one from Brazil and one from Ethiopia. Miriam Monteiro de Aguiar from...