The Royal Blog

Dear Royal Coffee Customer, As the holidays approach, we want to help prepare you with information on 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 […]

Shop the Blend Recipes here. We take blends seriously around these parts. We spend a lot of time thinking about, and giving hot takes on, coffee blends. In the spirit of our blend enthusiasm, we’re excited to present two new seasonal blend recipes. For background, your blend creators have similar coffee industry expertise in creating […]

Editor’s note: This article was first published in Roast Magazine’s July/August 2023 issue, and is reprinted here with permission. Transparency is an act of devotion When you love something (and specialty coffee people love coffee), you’re naturally compelled to want to learn everything about it. And if you believe your coffee has value, you’re more […]

John Cossette, Vice President of Green Coffee Purchasing at Royal weighs in on the pricing change and shares his take on our best Fairtrade Organic offerings.  Since 1995, Royal Coffee has been an active participant and importer of Fairtrade and Organic coffee. Starting with a few tentative purchases from Nicaragua, Fairtrade Organic Coffee now represents […]

Celebrating long-term relationships and innovation with the Vohora Family in Arusha and Ngorongoro.  Two days is an unfair timeline for a visit with Neel and Kavita Vohora, the brother-sister team behind some of Tanzania’s best coffee. I’m not quite sure how exactly we squeezed all that we did into such little time.  Most recently I […]

Celebrating Women-led Projects in the Heart of Africa: Chris shares his recent trip to Bujumbura and upcountry Burundi.  Disembarking at the airport in Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital city on the shore of Lake Tanganyika is a chaotic and usually sweaty affair, little changed from the last time I visited in 2015. Americans must still purchase visas […]

Recently, Royal Coffee’s Director of Business Development, Richard Sandlin, caught up with Sprudge to discuss our newest line of boxed green coffees, the 50 lb Royal Gem. Here is the Q&A and FAQ for the new product line.  Can you tell me a little bit about the conceit behind Royal Gems?  We wanted to help […]

Royal Coffee’s Inbound Traffic Specialist, Jodi Louws, shares her thoughts on market forces that will affect shipping costs in 2023.  TLDR; Shipping costs are not back to pre-pandemic lows, and we do not expect them to be. Freight rates are improving, but not “plunging”, and low East –West rates are not opening doors for low […]

Back in April of this year, our cofounder Bob cupped some of the offer samples with Natalia from Mastercol, the Crown’s roaster Doris, and our Colombian green coffee buyer Amanda, and he was blown away by some of the most unique coffees we have ever encountered. We’re proud to feature an array of green coffees […]

The past few years have included, along with the launch of our Crown Jewel program, our first real sustained sourcing effort in Ecuador. Both of these projects reflect Royal’s stance as buyers, or curators, as much as we are traders. All of us here who contribute to the spot position are capable of arguing for […]