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Empowering Women at Origin: Ethiopia
By Lauren Cropper, Junior Trader & Certifications Manager, with Caitlin McCarthy-Garcia, Trader Article Summary: Royal Coffee highlights two women-led Ethiopian exporters, Ephtah and Dumerso, that are transforming the country’s coffee industry through equity,...
July 2025 Crown Jewel Updates

Explore July 2025 Crown Jewel coffee arrivals from Sumatra, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and more. Bold flavors, innovative processing, and standout producers.

Tariff Updates: What’s Changing and What to Watch
Editor's Note August 20th: Brazil: A 50% tariff on green coffee takes effect August 6, with no exemption granted. The increase is tied to recent political tensions and was confirmed by Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who also stated no extension will be offered....

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Royal Coffee Responds to the SCA’s Deferred Candidacy Policy

As a founding member of the SCAA and continuing member of the SCA, Royal Coffee does not view the Association’s decision to hold competition events in Dubai nor its recently published Deferred Candidacy policy with apathy or disinterest. The future of the Association and our participation in its...

2017 – 2018 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

2017 – 2018 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

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....

Honduras Update: Catracha Microlots Have Arrived

Honduras Update: Catracha Microlots Have Arrived

Home in Honduras Nearly a year ago, my Royal office space moved to origin. I spent the month of August in Colombia visiting producers in Nariño, Cauca, Huila, and Tolima. In September, I moved home to Honduras. With the power of technology, I am able to continue my primary role at Royal, keeping...

Seattle Expo Expedition

Seattle Expo Expedition

Seattle Expo Expedition In April, Royal Coffee is embarking on a journey of epic proportions to the storied land of Seattle, Washington. What brings us there? Funny you should ask. Seattle is well known for its coffee, its fresh air, and of course its excellent weather – but we’re truly going...

Crown Jewel Instagram Photo Contest

Crown Jewel Instagram Photo Contest

Announcing the Crown Jewel Instagram Photo Contest: Will you be attending SCA in Seattle this year? Are you enjoying our Crown Jewel selections? We want to support you! We’ve been noticing your photos of Crown Jewel boxes in the wild, and we can’t get enough of them. So post a photo of your Crown...

Mad Fritz & Royal Coffee Beer Collaboration

Mad Fritz & Royal Coffee Beer Collaboration

Back in October, the Crown held a free-to-the-public educational event that brought together beer brewers and coffee roasters to talk a little about the effect that different types of water made on their beverages. A remarkable variety of water compositions were gathered from across the Bay Area,...

$25,000 for the ACLU

$25,000 for the ACLU

The only thing necessary to assure the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. As an industry whose very existence relies on the labor of frequently marginalized groups of people, I believe there is shared responsibility to push back now against the rising tide of unequal justice,...

2016-2017 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

2016-2017 Royal Coffee Holiday Schedule

  Dear Royal Customer, The 2016-2017 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...

Your Thanksgiving Holiday Reader

Your Thanksgiving Holiday Reader

We at Royal Coffee love writing, tasting, analyzing and sharing coffee information with you, our loyal readers. Since launching this blog in February, we've published over 170 articles - that's a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. We know all of you have read each article...twice. But for...

Royal Coffee is Discontinuing the Sale of Methylene Chloride Decaf

Royal Coffee has made the decision to stop trading Methylene Chloride processed decaf. Consumer health issues surrounding MC decaf have been discussed for years, and it is a widely held position that the risks, if any, are minimal or nonexistent. Handling, producing, and transporting MC is...

Crown on the Road: A Free Educational Event Series

Crown on the Road: A Free Educational Event Series

Royal Coffee is proud to announce Crown on the Road, a free educational event series popping up in Los Angeles & the Bay Area. Join us for this free series while we anticipate the opening of The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room. UPDATE, 11/15/2016 It's been such a pleasure putting on...

Hanjin Shipping Enters Dire Straits

Hanjin Shipping Enters Dire Straits

More news from the shipping lanes. Here at Royal Coffee, we are in the business not only of selling coffee, but making sure coffee gets to where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. To that end we work with a number of shipping companies, and lately some of these companies have been in dire...