The Royal Blog

Dear Royal Coffee Customer, As the holidays approach, we wanted to send a note about LTL freight and outbound shipments. During the holiday season carriers always expect higher than normal volume, but driver and dock staffing shortages have never been so severe as they are this year. Outbound Shipping has seen extreme delays recently, and […]

Just this afternoon our colleague, Haile Andualem, in Addis Ababa has reported that a State of Emergency has been declared nationwide throughout Ethiopia, in response to the ongoing civil war in the northern Tigray region. In particular, the Amhara region directly to the south of Tigray is especially impacted. While it is not yet clear […]

High Altitude Ethiopia: METAD The wait is over! We have some stellar offerings from METAD. METAD is a third-generation family-owned business managed by the Adinew brothers. Their high-altitude estate is blessed with […]

Editor’s note: This article first ran in Daily Coffee News on July 12, 2021, and is republished here with permission. The 2021 Association for Science and Information on Coffee (ASIC) biennial conference concluded in Montpellier, France, on July 1, and I’m feeling pretty lucky to have been able to attend, albeit remotely. The Association’s 28th […]

“Frost in Brazil.”  Whisper the phrase in a trader’s ear and watch the market ticker spin.  What Happened?  Tragically last week, an unexpectedly severe weather system hit 3 coffee-growing regions in Southeastern Brazil (the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo [Mogiana], and Paraná) at a time when many of the coffee plants were already weakened by drought. It seems at this time […]

The UC Davis Coffee Center Receives its Official Dedication and is Open for Business Friday, June 25th, was the day of the official dedication ceremony for the UC Davis College of Engineering Coffee Center, a 6,000 square foot multi-bay laboratory building currently on its way to becoming the world’s first research and teaching facility dedicated […]

Dear Customers,   In 2020, we decided that Royal Coffee would observe Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. The holiday began in Galveston, Texas and commemorates the June 19th, 1865 delivery of the news of freedom from slavery in Texas, some 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and […]

Good Food Awards Coffee Entry The Good Food Awards entry period is about to start! The Good Food Awards is open to producers in 17 categories, including coffee. The deadline to enter is June 30th. Want to learn more? Listen to the Good Food Awards co-founder Sarah Weiner, co-chair Tovara Salley, and co-chair Sandra Loofbourow discuss […]

A short snippet from Bob Fulmer and Chris Kornman’s discussion on Royal Coffee’s Farmgate Transparency Program. If you’d like to hear more, check out the full podcast episode.  Back to the Farm Since co-founding Royal Coffee in 1978, I have made numerous trips to origin countries with a whole lot of different people, and […]

After the unprecedented challenges of 2020, the specialty coffee world faces an entirely new, though not unrelated, set of logistical hurdles in 2021. Our Director of Education, Chris Kornman, sat down with the Director of Inbound Traffic, Jodi Louws, to discuss complications currently playing out in the world of ocean freight. If you’ve not yet […]