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Your Back to School Update from Royal Coffee
Labor Day Weekend often marks the return of familiar patterns: school, football, consistent schedules and ways of doing things. Here at Royal, we are taking a different approach this fall, ushering in a slate of major additions and upgrades at various levels of the company which should...
C Market: Futures Maneuver Higher At Week’s End
This week in global finance, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated a willingness to raise interest rates for the second time since December but also noted a need to see further strengthening in U.S. economic indicators. Despite nearing Federal Reserve targets for employment and...
C Market: Coffee Brushes Off Currency Pressure
This week in global finance, U.S. stock markets dropped at the end of a tepid week on expectations of a slow increase to interest rates from the Fed, marking a lull in the S&P 500’s march to record highs this year. Oil posted a steady recovery over the last week, supported by a weak US dollar...
Sneak Peak of The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room
Loyal subscribers of our newsletter will be well-versed to the newest addition to the Royal family, The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room. We are proud to share some early renderings of our new space here on our blog. Be sure to check back often for updates. Things are just getting...
Corrections – Mold, Mycotoxins, and Coffee
Let's cut to the chase: I need to issue a few corrections. Lucia Solis, of Scott Labs (not to be confused with the similarly named entity that helped develop the SL-28 variety in Kenya, for example. That Scott Labs no longer exists as such, but is now the National Agricultural Laboratories, a part...
Green Coffee Analytics part III – Visual Defects
This week we’re back on the grading table, this time focusing our attention on visual defects in green coffee. In many ways, green coffee defects share some similarities with screen size. They both impact the way coffee roasts and tastes and equally can have financial ramifications in terms of...
Origin Trip and Auction Invitation: Nariño, Colombia – August 2016
AUGUST 24TH-28TH 2016 Email Mayra Orellana-Powell by August 17th, 2016 to reserve your spot mpowell@royalcoffee.com Royal Coffee is partnering with Inconexus to sponsor a cupping contest and auction in Nariño, Colombia. We expect this event to be a repeat of last year’s success at Mejor de Tolima....
Introducing 78 Espresso Blend
Royal Coffee has been sourcing, buying, and selling green coffee since 1978. During that time, our focus has always been on showcasing the best single origins we can. While single origins are an integral part of the supply chain, it overlooks something roasters have been asking for: year-round...
C Market: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This week in macroeconomics saw a drop in the US dollar index on the basis of poor economic performance in the second quarter, a middling US stock market as tech companies compensating for flops in the oil industry, and the beginning of the Bank of Japan’s purchase of exchange traded funds to...
The Blend Supply Chain
When building a blend, having a set of goals is key. What is the ideal blend for your particular situation, and what is your situation, exactly? For green buyers, constant maintenance of one’s position is a necessity, and some blends are built out of this necessity. Coffee is an agricultural...
Roadblocks for Change in Colombia
You may have heard about the recent transportation strikes in Colombia, the longest such strikes in Colombia’s history. Then again, you may have not. After 46 days of strike, agreements were reached with Colombia’s trucker’s unions including concessions on truck maintenance, an affordable housing...
C Market: Market Tanks As Colombian Coffee Flows
This week in the global economy, Wall Street takes the spotlight in finance performance with a fourth consecutive week of gains, led by positive reports in corporate earnings. After digesting the news of Brexit, stock markets in the US, Europe and Japan are trading with more stability and the...
More Good, Less Bad and Ugly
I managed to do little to no thinking for a solid week— just soaking up the sun, blissfully ignorant to what was happening outside of my visit with family in North Carolina— but the world goes on and the news, it turns out, is unavoidable. First it was more than 250 people killed by suicide...
Catracha Coffee Single Farm Micro-lots Have Arrived
Catracha Coffee single farm micro-lots have arrived from Honduras. These coffees are produced by small individual farmers and arrived here in Oakland ranging in size from 5 bags up to 20 bags, marked with the farmer’s name to ensure traceability for each lot. These are not cooperative coffees,...
C Market: Friday Dollar Jiu Jitsu
This week in global finance, the US stock market posted its third consecutive week of gains as retail growth outdid expectations and the Chinese economy reported unexpected growth this quarter. Despite poor performance from major US banks, equities, indices and commodities all managed to trend...