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Editor’s note: This article first ran in Coffee, Tea & I Magazine Vol 72 (Download a PDF here) and is reprinted with permission. Burundi: Passionate people and exquisite flavors The...
By Max Nicholas-Fulmer with Chris Kornman It started last week: a sudden and noticeable uptick in clients asking for FOB prices on coffees they’d already bought from Royal, some over a year old. It did not take long for our crack trading staff to surmise this might have something to do with The Pledge, a […]
Few people have been able to effectuate change in the lives of others the way Mayra Orellana-Powell has through with her company, Catracha Coffee, and through her charitable work with The Catracha Community Project. “In her first year of operation, back in 2010, Mayra imported 50 bags of her communities’ coffee, entirely on her own, […]
Royal Coffee Costa Rica Origin Trip 2019 March 3rd – 8th, 2019 This trip will be led by Royal team members Alex Mason and Laurel Wirth in partnership with our host E&H Sucafe. Join us in Costa Rica for an unforgettable coffee experience. Our trip will take place in the dry warm season, which coincides […]
What do you call a coffee that is neither fully washed nor dried in the cherry… and more importantly, what does it mean when we say Pulped Natural, Honey Process, or Semi-Washed? In the world of coffee, there are basically two ways to process post-harvest. You can minimally process before milling and export (i.e., natural, […]
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 […]
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on December 20, 2017. Spuds, yams, tubers – baked, boiled, fried, mashed… There’s almost no limit to the versatility of the root vegetable we often associate with Idaho or Ireland. It might surprise you to know that there are more than 1,000 varieties […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Perfect Daily Grind on November 28, 2017. There are a lot of perks to being a coffee buyer: traveling to origin, meeting producers, experiencing the coffee harvest. As glamorous as this role can be there is a ton of work that comes between a farm visit […]
Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 16th, 2020. To learn more about Ethiopia, check out our webinar, “What’s Happening in Ethiopia?” with Max Nicholas-Fulmer, Caitlin McCarthy-Garcia, and Haile Andualem. Ethiopia is, arguably, the most important origin in specialty coffee. It appears on every roaster’s menu, consistently wins competitions like the Good Food Awards, […]
Your Green Coffee Supplier: The ABCs At this juncture in my career my personal satisfaction comes from the undeniable fact that individuals, families, and organizations in both coffee roasting facilities and coffee producing regions rely on me and Royal Coffee to be their purveyors of choice and market makers for their quality products that […]
