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It’s already halfway through May! We’ve switched our hours at the Crown to Tuesday-Saturday, but there’s plenty more of the same when it comes to great coffee and events. Here are a few things we’re really excited about for the month of June: Water Composition & Coffee: Theory & Tasting June 5 from 10:00 a.m. […]

What do you imagine the work of World Coffee Research looks like? Equator Coffees and The Crown played co-host to a pair of recent events where Greg Meenahan, WCR’s Partnership Director, presented data on sustainability and the progress made with the organization’s help. WCR is just a few years old, established in 2012, has about […]

It’s hard to believe it’s been two months since we opened our doors at The Crown’s permanent location in Oakland. If you haven’t swung through yet for a cappuccino, house-made soda, Public Tasting (Thursdays at 1pm) or one of our many events yet, please do! In fact, here are a few things we’re really excited […]

The Coffee Buyers’ Cupping Table at The Crown As part of our path to making the coffee supply chain more transparent, we are hosting purchasing-focused cuppings at The Crown most Tuesdays at 11 a.m. At these cupping events, you can expect type samples from potential suppliers of green coffee, preshipment samples from suppliers we already […]

Dear Royal Customer, The 2017-2018 Holidays are in full swing! Do you have your beans for the busy season yet? To help plan ahead, our awesome outbound team has organized a list of important closure dates for our U.S. warehouses and most popular carriers for your immediate reference down below. Here’s what we recommend in […]

November has arrived and that means we are finally entering the cold dry season here in Santa Elena. While many parts of Honduras are gearing up for the harvest, we are still a solid two months away from our first pick, which generally starts in the first weeks of January. Meanwhile, we wait, holding our […]

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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on October 10, 2018; it is reprinted here with permission. Following a dizzying week of coffee science learning in mid-September at the Association for Science and Information on Coffee (ASIC) biennial symposium in Portland, Oregon, I attempted to sum up of some of the conference’s many day-one highlights. That piece […]

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on October 3, 2018; it is reprinted here with permission. Baristas, roasters and cuppers, myself included, are quick to invoke the contributions of art and science in our field. Growing, processing, roasting, brewing, and sensory analysis all require a fair degree of scientific rigor before […]