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  • Hybrid Processing Methods

    Hybrid Processing Methods

    What do you call a coffee that is neither fully washed nor dried in the cherry… and more importantly, what does it mean when we say Pulped Natural, Honey Process, or Semi-Washed? In the world of coffee, there are basically two ways to process post-harvest. You can minimally process before milling and export (i.e., natural, […]

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  • Dispatch from Sensory Summit

    Dispatch from Sensory Summit

    Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Sensory Summit, hosted by the Roasters Guild at UC Davis. This is the third year the Roasters Guild, who hoped to host an event to complement Retreat, has hosted this incredible weekend. It’s designed to “…educate, inform, and inspire the Specialty Coffee professional”, and works with the […]

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  • 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 of the larger […]

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