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News has been making the rounds this week of Fairtrade International’s increase to prices paid for coffee, the first such announcement in more than a decade. New pricing takes effect...
This article was originally published on September 18th, 2015. Update by Max Nicholas-Fulmer: In the nearly four years since this article was originally published, the C market enjoyed a modest recovery followed by what is now one of the longest protracted periods of depressed prices in decades. Indeed, on April 11th the market made a […]
A version of this article originally appeared on Daily Coffee News here on March 8th 2017. This article was co-authored by Colleen King & Rosi Quiñones Part I : GMOs In part one of this series, we explore the Non-GMO certification movement, and discuss its relevance to the specialty coffee industry. We begin with this polarizing subject due to its […]
Since 2001 Royal has worked with Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) and has imported and distributed millions of pounds of this group’s coffee. This is no small feat, especially as the average farmer cultivates less that one hectare (about 2 ½ acres) of land. I love this coffee and this cooperative. What impresses me most is […]
A New Women’s Cooperative in Java Over the last few years I have found space in the coffee industry to express myself as a successful woman. I founded Catracha Coffee and I am the Marketing and Outreach Director for Royal Coffee. I want to use my position with Catracha and at Royal to support other […]
Two announcements made in the past week carry significant interest for us here at Royal Coffee: the Ethiopian Coffee Exporter’s Association annual report, and the Good Food Awards Finalist list. According to ECEA’s official figures, Royal paid the highest average FOB price for Ethiopian coffee from the 2015/16 season of any company, anywhere in the world. […]
Around this time of year many roasters begin to worry if they will have enough Central American and Mexican coffee to make it till next season, or if their Sumatra is starting to taste like a musty jute sack or if their Ethiopia will start to lose its lemony luster. While those concerns are understandable, […]
My first time cupping at Royal was right around this time of year; the weather was becoming gentler, and my nose was still sensitive to the ubiquitous jasmine vines in the Bay Area. I was a full-time barista, and used to tasting coffees that made it all the way through various levels of quality control […]
