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Banana for Scale / Reefer Madness
A few recent shipments from Mexico brought matters of international shipping to our attention once again, but in a very positive manner. These two shipments in particular came in tasting absolutely fabulous. So, how come these coffees came in...
Tanzania Coffee Farmers and Traders Face Stark New Regulatory Reality
Editor's note: this story first ran in Daily Coffee News on May 14, 2018. On January 14, 2018, Tanzania’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa dissolved the Tanzania Coffee Development Trust Fund, claiming it was redundant and depriving farmers of their money. At the same time, he directed the...
Milling Away: What Hope & Gratitude Look Like for Kenya’s Coffee Sector
Vava Angwenyi is the founder of Vava Coffee, a Kenyan social enterprise that works with smallholder coffee farmers, women, and youth, utilizing training to provide marginalized community members with an opportunity to move out of poverty. She recently spoke about her endeavors at Re:co Symposium...
SCA Expo 2018 Roundup
Global Specialty Coffee Expo was a hit this year. With over 13,000 domestic and international attendees, the show was just as packed as ever - yet somehow it was impossible not to run into someone you knew wherever you walked. Familiar and new faces alike, it was great to meet you there! This...
A Message from Our Founder
Dear Friends, First of all about coffee: We are very encouraged by the initial shipment arrivals from Central America and Mexico. For the past few years the roya fungus has certainly compromised many of our favorite suppliers. We are now cupping some outstanding coffees, in...
Royal Visits Beijing & Shanghai
Recently, Royal Coffee spent a number of days on the ground in the emergent coffee markets in two of the world’s largest cities - Beijing and Shanghai. Observant blog readers will have no doubt noted that we’ve taken to republishing some of our articles in Chinese and Japanese, and many of you...
Hybrid Processing Methods
What do you call a coffee that is neither fully washed nor dried in the cherry... and more importantly, what does it mean when we say Pulped Natural, Honey Process, or Semi-Washed? In the world of coffee, there are basically two ways to process post-harvest. You can minimally process before...
IWCA Breakfast at SCA Expo 2018
Every year the international coffee community comes together at the Specialty Coffee Expo. This event brings together professionals from every step of the coffee supply chain to discuss, learn, and make new contacts. 2018 marks a significant milestone for IWCA as we celebrate the organization’s...
Plastic Rules Everything Around Me
Plastic surrounds us. There’s no two ways about it – just look around you right now and you’ll see how many objects contain plastic. My phone is plastic, that cup is plastic, and my pants probably have some synthetic fibers in them as well. My sandwich is in a plastic bag, and the lettuce I bought...
Producer Interview: Irham Yunus, owner of Jagong Mill in Sumatra, Indonesia
Irham Yunus, along with his family, owns several farms in the Takengon and Atu regions and runs the Jagong mill on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Irham and his wife have four children: two daughters are doctors and their son is a general contractor. Their other daughter, Ina Ramadhani, has...
Crown Analysis: CJ1173 – エチオピア ドドラ ウォナゴ デスタゴーラ ダブルウオッシュド クラウンジュエル
Introduction by Chris Kornman クリス・コーンマンによる豆の紹介 少し遅めに到着したこのエチオピアのコーヒーは、ゲデオ領域内でウォナゴ地区の近く、ドドラ地区に住んでいるデスタゴーラという名前の農家が栽培したものです。 デスタゴーラさんは49歳。4ヘクタールの農場で2万本を超えるコーヒーの木を2013年以来育てられています。彼はイルガチェフ町の南に位置するアダム・ゴルボータ協同組合のメンバーです。...
Brazil: Beautiful Horizons
When viewing the Royal Coffee offering list for Brazil, it has been traditionally dominated by Mogiana and Cerrado FC SS 17/18, with multiple containers arriving and shipping out to us every month. These are the bread and butter Brazils: soft, mild, mellow sweet and nutty (and cheap), used widely...
Freezing Green Coffee: A Tale of Infestation, Treatment and Consequences
Editor's note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Despite the fact that coffee comes equipped with a natural insecticide (caffeine), it is still susceptible to sporadic insect infestation. Royal Coffee experienced a pest-related incident that affected...
Crown Analysis: 40379C 苏门答腊 玉龙 曼特宁G1 GrainPro包装
Introduction by Chris Kornman 介绍来自 使你唤起神话与传说，苏门答腊玉龙咖啡在很多方面都是收获最佳选择的象征。这款咖啡来自苏门答腊北部Takengon高地，位于Lukup Sabun附近的一个 长期供应商Koperasi Kopi Gayo Organico (KKGO) 合作社。该合作社拥有1500多位成员，其中许多都是在该地区战乱冲突期间失去丈夫的遗孀。 2013年地震后这些家庭开始进行重建。 作为苏门答腊最北端的省份，Aceh的大部分区域是“曼特宁”咖啡的来源之地，有时也被称为Gayo或Gayoland，参照源于当地绝大多数的Gayonese...
Producer Interview: Fatoum Muslot of Pearl of Tehama Company
As part of Royal Coffee’s continued series of interviews with coffee producers, I am pleased to introduce Mrs. Fatoum Muslot. Royal Coffee has worked with the Muslot family since 1984, bringing in Yemeni coffee every year that we can. Recently, we have been having a very lively dialog with Yemen,...