The Royal Blog
Coffee News
Education + Resources
Crown Jewels
The Crown
Potato Taste Defect: What Roasters Need to Know
Editor's note: A version of this article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on December 20, 2017. Spuds, yams, tubers – baked, boiled, fried, mashed… There’s almost no limit to the versatility of the root vegetable we often associate with Idaho or Ireland. It might surprise you to know that there...
Understanding Extraction
What really happens during extraction? There are some things we know, and some things that are still a little muddled. This week I did a few experiments in hopes of tightening up our understanding of how extraction works. What we know about extraction: We know that water is an excellent solvent....
A Coffee Buyer’s Glossary of Contract Terms
Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Perfect Daily Grind on November 28, 2017. There are a lot of perks to being a coffee buyer: traveling to origin, meeting producers, experiencing the coffee harvest. As glamorous as this role can be there is a ton of work that comes between...
Producer Interview: Edith Meza Sagarvinaga of Finca Tasta in Satipo, Peru
As part of Royal Coffee’s continued series of interviews with coffee producers, I am pleased to introduce Edith Meza Sagarvinaga, a coffee producer from Peru who recently sold coffee to Royal Coffee for the first time. Edith and her brother Ivan are second generation coffee producers and started...
咖啡产业链之危地马拉见闻
Chris Kornman近期刊发在Royal Newsletter的关于产业供应链的文章很及时，他的感受与我最近到访危地马拉的经历有着异曲同工之妙。 正如Chris所说，咖啡处理和出口是与农业生产过程分开的两个独立环节，对于Royal的很多危地马拉咖啡供应商来说这是一个不争的事实。 出口商CAMEC 例如，来自危地马拉不同产区包括节枝庄园、Huixoc庄园、Limonar庄园以及安提瓜火山地区的的羊皮纸咖啡，都集中到一个名为CAMEC的危地马拉城的咖啡出口公司处理厂储存，这家家族企业建立于上世纪50年代，Royal和这家公司有着长期的合作关系。...
Crown Analysis: CJ1143 – 皇冠宝石系列之 埃塞尔比亚 Banko Fuafuate产区日晒
Introduction by Chris Kornman 简介 无论是自然处理法，还是日晒处理或者任何你所习惯的叫法，这种传统的咖啡处理加工方式都源自于埃塞俄比亚，直至今日几乎全球所有的咖啡产地都还沿用着这种咖啡处理的方式。将咖啡果整个带着果肉和果皮直接干燥处理，就像晒葡萄干一样，无论怎样演变和改进其中的过程，其根源都是埃塞俄比亚的日晒处理方法。在埃塞俄比亚，你还可以随处可见很多小农户将收集来的咖啡浆果晾晒在晒场或者直接放在草地上进行干燥和晾晒处理。和很多咖啡出口国不同，埃塞俄比亚是唯一一个全部咖啡都用来出口的国家，其每年的出口量就等于每年全国的咖啡产量。 Banko...
Origin Trip Invitation: Huila, Colombia – January 2018
Royal Coffee and InConexus Colombia present a cupping of 30 specialty coffees selected from over 200 entries. Royal has been working with Inconexus since 2010 and we have seen them deliver quality improvements and incredible relationships with farmers. See it for yourself in Huila this January....
Royal Coffee Responds to the SCA’s Deferred Candidacy Policy
As a founding member of the SCAA and continuing member of the SCA, Royal Coffee does not view the Association’s decision to hold competition events in Dubai nor its recently published Deferred Candidacy policy with apathy or disinterest. The future of the Association and our participation in its...
The Relationship Between Water Activity and the Maillard Reaction in Roasting
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Daily Coffee News on November 22, 2017. In what might be a foolhardy attempt to correlate two of coffee’s most complicated concepts, I’ve dedicated a significant portion of the past few months to examining the relationship between the water...
How Does Adding Sugar Affect the Taste of Coffee?
Sugar is not a common topic of conversation in specialty coffee - at least, not in the 'one lump or two?' sense. While focusing on how to improve the taste and quality of our product, we’ve forgotten that the vast majority of coffee consumers take their coffee with cream and sugar. Without the...
2017 – 2018 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....
埃塞俄比亚：一个神秘的国度
在精品咖啡领域，埃塞俄比亚无疑是一个非常重要的产地之一。几乎在所有烘焙商的清单上，你都可以轻易的找到埃塞俄比亚的字样，在各种咖啡竞赛中也几乎从未缺席领奖台，例如在“好食物奖”上拔得头筹被视为是皇冠宝石系列的主要原产地国之一。作为Royal埃塞俄比亚咖啡的买家，我有机会深入探索这片咖啡的天堂。每每收到埃塞俄比亚新季的顶级水洗和日晒处理的咖啡，总让我难以抑制心里的兴奋感。我除了去感受咖啡的味道、考虑他们恰当的用途、询问生产处理方法以外，最关注的一个问题就是这些咖啡生长的地理环境。埃塞俄比亚的地理环境相当复杂，由于埃塞俄比亚是一个多民族混合的国家，所以其地区基本是以文化特性和语言来划分的，错综复杂，...
考Q的经验分享
考Q的经验分享 2003年，CQI（咖啡品质协会）推出了阿拉比卡咖啡Q grader项目，向咖啡专业人士授予专业证书，并利用这套体系对咖啡进行评分和定级。这是一项致力于咖啡全球标准化的项目，因为曾经通过感官来对咖啡进行分析和评价是非常主观的认定。一个人认为的深度烘焙，在另外一个人眼中可能是中度烘焙，或者在一个人的认识当中这种味道是浆果果酱的味道，而同样的味道，另外一个人却说是意大利黑醋，还有人说是……，还是让我们一起努力把标准统一了吧。 目前，世界范围内共有4000多人拥有Q...
Staff Picks!
Staff Picks! This week in staff picks, Ethiopia makes a strong showing from the Crown team. The Trading team found two Colombian offerings that represent the coffee rainbow that country has to offer, from the humble Supremo 17/18 to the much vaunted zero-defect vacuum sealed microlot. Rwanda and...
Spotlight on the Warehouse
Spotlight on the Warehouse I’ll never forget my first visit to our warehouse in Oakland. The sight of a 68,000 square foot warehouse stacked high with coffee is overwhelming to take in. I found myself staring in awe of the sheer volume, and then it dawned on me that the Royal Warehouse...