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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 Valle Alto 83+ On the fruit side of this coffee, we have […]

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 Mujer Aproccurma Orange, honey, chamomile, and clean sweetness are what you […]

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 SIERRA VERDE  From this Peruvian lot, we get a classic blend of […]

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 Altura de San Roman owns and operates a […]

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 sequenced?  HN- In 2009, a canephora plan was first […]

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 complex compound. With roughly 200 volatile compounds in green coffee and roasted expressing upwards of 1,000, […]

As of this writing, the price of the most actively traded NY coffee futures contract (SEP23) sits at 155.80.  This is a 24 percent drop from the 6-month high of 205.25.  It is worth looking back over the past half year to see how we ended up at this level and also to better understand […]

Wild gyrations in the coffee market, and how to cope. If you’ve been watching the coffee market recently, you are doubtless aware of the massive decline in coffee futures prices on the Intercontinental Commodity Exchange (“ICE”, colloquially still known as the “New York ‘C’ Market,” or just “the C”). Since peaking at $2.30/lb on September […]

OK, the truth is that we’ve been receiving Ethiopian coffees for months now, but unless you are booking forward with us, you’ve likely not seen many, if any, available on our SPOT Offering List. This is because they’ve all been selling out in advance of arrival, or shortly thereafter. Happily, we are about to reach […]