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International Women’s Month 2024
We’re fortunate to have team made up of incredible humans at Royal Coffee. In honor of National Women’s Month, we are featuring some of them here, and sharing a little bit about what they do here and some life advice.Berit Carlson Accounting, On and off since 1989Favorite Coffee: Yemen Mocha A...
Green Coffee Field Report: Rwanda’s Dukunde Kawa Cooperative
Kigali, April 2023 Ernest Nshimyimana picks me up from the hotel in Kigali just an hour after I arrive. I’ve already driven three and a half hours this morning, starting on the shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda’s western province. Now we’re heading north, and the SUV is extra in the way the kids mean...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: Feb 22, 2024
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursdays where we highlight recent arrivals. We select several coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations 31999 Nicaragua FT-FLO/USA Organic Alto De...
FAF, the Environmental Fortress Farm and the Other Brazil
Publisher's note: Despite the default impression of Brazil as being dominated by large, mechanized farms, about half of the country’s coffee farmers are small, family-managed operations who process at home and sell to local growers’ organizations to earn their living. This is the story of the...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: Feb 8, 2024
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursdays where we highlight recent arrivals. We select several coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations 31860 Peru FT-FLO/USA Organic Amazonas...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: Feb 1, 2024
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursdays where we highlight recent arrivals. We select several coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations. 31507 Peru FT-FLO/USA Organic Cafe De...
The Crown Gallery Artist Interviews: Alexis M. Brayton
The Crown seeks to give exposure to local and international artists through The Crown Gallery, and hosts new artists every four months. The Crown Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the Spring of 2024 and is seeking artists who approach issues related to environmental sustainability,...
Au Lait of Apricity – Assume Nothing
by MJ Smith "Assume Nothing!" A mantra for The Crown as we worked towards opening our doors in March of 2019, the phrase became a Menu section, encouraging our visitors to drop their preconceptions and be open to new and delicious experiences. And now it's the title of a recipe series, for you to...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: January 2024
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursdays where we highlight recent arrivals. We select several coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations. 31870 PERU FT-FLO/USA ORGANIC ANDINOS...
The 2023 Crown Jewel Year In Review
We'd like to give our sincere thanks to our Crown Jewel customers. With your support, we're able to continue to explore the boundaries of specialty coffee and highlight innovative producers around the globe. Here's a look back at the year in Crown Jewels: We released 33 Crown Jewels from 16...
Fermentation Year in Review
Reflecting on 2023, it has been thematic for the crew here at The Crown in Oakland, California. Inspiration kicked towards the end of 2022 with the deliciously curious lots from Edwin Noreña (aka El Alquimista), a aji chili infused honey Bourbon and gesha galaxy hops infused coffee. This...
Honey, We Spiced the Miel – Assume Nothing
by Taylor Brandon "Assume Nothing!" A mantra for The Crown as we worked towards opening our doors in March of 2019, the phrase became a Menu section, encouraging our visitors to drop their preconceptions and be open to new and delicious experiences. And now it's the title of a recipe series, for...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: December 2023
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursdays where we highlight recent arrivals. We select several coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations. 28911 Costa Rica El Poeta SHB EP Café de...
Green Coffee Report: 2023 Rwanda’s Kivubelt and Ikawa House
Before I can comprehend my surroundings, beyond the sleepless night and unending flight that preceded, suddenly I’m faced with something so familiar and grounding it’s as if I’d fallen from the sky in a million pieces, only to serendipitously reassemble perfectly where I land. 35 coffees, a...
Green Coffee Genetics
by Isabella Vitaliano This dictation is a condensed version of a podcast episode with Hannah Neuschwander from World Coffee Research Center and Chris Kornman of Royal Coffee. For the full conversation check out the Green Coffee Genetics episode here. When was the first genome of coffee...