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Guatemala: Hardship & Hope

Editor’s note: This article was first published in Volume 74 of Coffee T&I Magazine in January 2020. It is reprinted here with permission, and you may download it in its original format here, courtesy the publisher. The only time I’ve ever actually sprinted through an airport to catch a flight, I was on my way […]
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    Looking Towards the Future of Guatemalan Coffee

    Editor’s note: This article first ran in Daily Coffee News on January 14, 2020. It is reprinted here with permission. Guatemalan coffee has long held a place of honor among specialty coffee roasters. Regional names like Antigua, Cobán, and Huehuetenango are familiar to many, and are frequently synonymous with exceptional quality. The country’s history with […]
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    Café Touba

    There is a wealth of diversity in the way people prepare and consume coffee around the world. The cultural exchange that comes out of international interaction, and especially out of colonization, creates new traditions like Café de Olla, a Mexican beverage I’ve written about previously. These new traditions take snippets of the participating cultures’ culinary […]
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    Café de Olla

    Editors note: A version of this article first appeared as a two-part series in Barista Magazine Online on August 7 and August 14, 2018. For a limited time, you can enjoy our version of this beverage at The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room Café de Olla: Native to Mestizo Mexico In many places, […]

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  • The Intersection of Climate and Coffee on Finca Huixoc

    The Intersection of Climate and Coffee on Finca Huixoc

    It all started with a pretty benign suggestion. Bob Fulmer mentioned the long history of Alfred Klein and coffees from Finca San Carlos to me in passing, and dropped a line introducing us. What followed, over the course of a few weeks, was an exchange totaling over 5000 words and eventually filling numerous blog posts […]

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  • 咖啡产业链之危地马拉见闻

    咖啡产业链之危地马拉见闻

    Chris Kornman近期刊发在Royal Newsletter的关于产业供应链的文章很及时，他的感受与我最近到访危地马拉的经历有着异曲同工之妙。 正如Chris所说，咖啡处理和出口是与农业生产过程分开的两个独立环节，对于Royal的很多危地马拉咖啡供应商来说这是一个不争的事实。   出口商CAMEC 例如，来自危地马拉不同产区...

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  • Staff Picks!

    Staff Picks!

    Staff Picks! This week at the cupping table, Ethiopia, Sumatra, and Colombia dominated in terms of arrivals. We also have the beginnings of an influx of Brazilian offerings, but this month truly seems to be the calm before the storm. The Ethiopian selections in particular lightened our spirits, as you can see below. Taste in […]

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    Load the Larders

    Summer is fading fast, school is back in session, vacations are over and the workaday reality of our millstone existence stares us in the face. This is the season when the real coffee drinking begins, demand and consumption are high, yet as always it corresponds with a time of year when deliveries have ended and […]

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  • Mid-year Market Recap

    Mid-year Market Recap Look up from your cupping table or your roaster’s cooling tray, take a walk outside and you’ll notice that the weather is warm, children are playing outdoors and skies are blue. It’s summer and the year is already halfway over. Somehow amid the flurry of activity with industry events, Central American crop […]

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