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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...
Royal Coffee 2023 Holiday Ordering Info
Dear Royal Coffee Customer, As the holidays approach, we want to help prepare you with information on LTL freight and outbound shipments. During the holiday season, carriers always expect higher than normal volume, but driver and dock staffing shortages have never been so severe as they are this...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: November 2023
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursday 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. 28681 Costa Rica Santa Maria De Dota AA EP...
A New World History & Geography of Arabica Coffee Cultivars
A New World History & Geography of Arabica Coffee Cultivars A Visualization and Narrative of the Historical Cultivation, Selection, Distribution, Mutation, and Hybridization of Arabica’s Most Common Cultivars, with the Context of Dates and Locations By Chris Kornman Graphic Design by Jeremy...
How Microbiome Activity During Post-Harvest Processing Affects Volatile Compounds in Coffee
Editor's note: This article was first published by Roast Magazine's September/October 2023 issue, and is reprinted here with permission. Technically Speaking: How Microbiome Activity During Post-Harvest Processing Affects Volatile Compounds in Coffee By Isabella Vitaliano Coffee is a highly...
Green Coffee Blending Recipes: 2023 Holiday Blend & The Cupper’s Delight Blend
Shop the Blend Recipes here. We take blends seriously around these parts. We spend a lot of time thinking about, and giving hot takes on, coffee blends. In the spirit of our blend enthusiasm, we’re excited to present two new seasonal blend recipes. For background, your blend creators have similar...
Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series: October 2023
by Isabella Vitaliano Welcome to our Specialty Green Coffee Cupping Series on Thursday where we highlight recent arrivals. We select 5 coffees to cup at The Crown and provide more in-depth tasting notes, coffee background, and usage recommendations. October 12 29619 Colombia Huila Acevedo A A...
What Does Smallholder Farmgate Coffee Pricing Look Like?
Editor’s note: This article was first published in Roast Magazine’s July/August 2023 issue, and is reprinted here with permission. Transparency is an act of devotion When you love something (and specialty coffee people love coffee), you’re naturally compelled to want to learn everything about it....
Caffeine & Coffee: An Evolutionary Powerhouse
by Isabella Vitaliano A take on coffee and caffeine’s evolution Coffee’s history is rich with irony in that for a substance so stimulating and enlivening, the origin of the fruit remains fuzzy to this day. Origin stories vary and there is no confirmed evidence revealing where coffee grew in...