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The CrownIn January, Rosi and I flew to Colombia to attend the Mejor de Huila competition and auction organized by InConexus and Royal Coffee. We met up at the Bogotá airport with our fellow cuppers, an international coterie of coffee professionals from Asia, Europe and the US, to catch a flight to Pitalito in Huila. From […]
In the Third Wave coffee market, where the unique qualities of the producer, region, and altitude are popular to tout, the specialty coffee industry has contributed to a romanticized story of how coffee is sourced. The storyline which most consumers understand as ‘direct trade’ follows a roaster spending a significant amount of time searching for […]
If you haven’t recently studied a good map of Colombia, I recommend it. I have a cheap but pretty good atlas I picked up on sale when the Emeryville Borders went out of business a number of years back. I like to study it occasionally; it’s my idea of a good time. Running South to […]
Staff Picks! This week in staff picks, Ethiopia makes a strong showing from the Crown team. The Trading team found two Colombian offerings that represent the coffee rainbow that country has to offer, from the humble Supremo 17/18 to the much vaunted zero-defect vacuum sealed microlot. Rwanda and Sumatra aren’t far behind, and the result […]
One of our first arrivals for this year’s Colombian main crop comes from a small cooperative in Huila known by its acronym ASOPCAFA, rather than its full name: Asociacion de Productores, Transformadores y Exportadores de Café del Municipio de Aipe – Huila. The coffee, much like the producing coop’s name, is a mouthful and its […]
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, […]
by Chris Kornman Royal Coffee’s The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room may not yet be open, but that hasn’t stopped the crew from undertaking a number of projects that are increasingly becoming available to the coffee industry. We opened the use of our space recently for an event that engaged a number of […]
