In anticipation of this year’s Central American harvest, I have been reflecting on last year’s trek from Costa Rica to Mexico. From the start, the impact of leaf rust (roya) on organic coffee was foremost on my list of inquiry. One of the first visits was to Hacienda La Amistad, located in Coto Brus, a […]
As we rapidly approach harvest season in much of the world, planning begins for squaring away new crop commitments. What to buy forward? How much to contract to make it worthwhile? How to get it where it needs to go? Royal Coffee regularly provides import facilitation and warehousing services for clients who travel and source […]
On any coffee’s product page you can now set up custom email alerts to be sent to your inbox. Right below Additional Order Information you will see three checkboxes. By checking any one of these, entering your email, and clicking submit, you can recieve notifications when: 1. The coffee ships from origin. As soon as […]
I recently returned from a 26 day coffee trek through Central America and Mexico with filmmaker Sarah Gerber. We interviewed, filmed, and photographed Royal’s coffee producing partners with an eye towards bringing the production of coffee, in living color, home to Royal’s coffee consuming clients. In anticipation of these “farm to cup” films, I wanted […]
The Logic Behind Rapidly Rising Coffee Prices by Max Nicholas-Fulmer The New York “C” Market has rallied 60 cents per pound in under 3 weeks on concerns of drought conditions in some of the main Brazilian growing regions. This dry weather is occurring during the cherry development phase of the next crop. Still it is […]
If you ever read this blog, you may notice that we harp on ripe cherry selection at the farm level as fundamental to maximizing quality. I believe that any coffee can be improved through adherence to using only fully ripe, red fruit (or orange, yellow, or pink). As you may also know, it is not […]
Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s Royal sold a couple of different Sumatra types. Our most popular, simply called Mandheling Grade 1, made up most of our volume and still does. Back then most “Mandheling” was grown between Medan and the Northern shore of Lake Toba. Occasionally we also sold a small amount of Lintong […]
