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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...
Advanced Roasting with Jen Apocada at CoRo in Berkeley
Advanced Roasting Class Upcoming - Register Here This course takes place over 2 consecutive days Thursday, September 13th, 9am - 4pm (lunch provided) Friday, September 14th, 9am - 12pm The Crown's Advanced Roasting 2-day course offers an array of tools to equip roasters to dramatically improve...
Nicaragua and Coffee 2018: Navigating Weather, Civil Strife, Roadblocks, and Low Prices
Nicaragua and Coffee 2018: Navigating Weather, Civil Strife, Roadblocks, and Low Prices (and still delivering great coffee!) After suffering in recent years from loss of production due to the effects of La Roya, this was supposed to be a year of recovery for the Nicaragua coffee economy....
Coffee Trivia Benefiting Grounds for Health
Maybe you saw the Sprudge Shout-Out last week, maybe you've been keeping up on our Events page... But in either case, the night of coffee-related trivia is fast approaching. Register in Advance Here Advance registration guarantees a spot in the evening's festivities and entitles you to a...
Treading Water: A Practical H2O Guide for Coffee Professionals – Part I: Chemistry & Conditioning
Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on August 15, 2018 Treading Water A Practical H2O Guide for Coffee Professionals Part I - Chemistry and Conditioning With the emergence of scientific manuals like the SCA’s Water Quality Handbook and the Maxwell...
Procedimientos y Protocolos de Catación
Our industry is multidisciplinary and international; it’s important to maintain clear means of communication as well as mutual understanding of quality standards. Here follows a translation of our article “Cupping Basics - How to Set up & Execute A Great Tasting Experience” into Spanish in...