The Royal Blog

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 great story has great flavor notes to accompany it. […]

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 Africa or even who among the […]

The New Wave of Bolivian Coffee  Bolivia’s story with coffee is unique and still unfolding. This year, Royal has contracted coffees from this origin for the first time in over a decade.    A new generation of coffee farmers dedicated to producing high-quality coffee are taking the stage in Bolivia. For the first time in the country’s […]