Two announcements made in the past week carry significant interest for us here at Royal Coffee: the Ethiopian Coffee Exporter's Association annual report, and the Good Food Awards Finalist list. According to ECEA’s official figures, Royal paid the highest average FOB price for Ethiopian coffee...
We are wrapping up our analysis of the 2016 Catracha Quality Project (CQP). Royal published a lot on this over the last two months, but if you haven’t been following this series, I’d suggest starting here. I’ll summarize a few of our key takeaways below. The team has started focusing on the next...
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...
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...
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...
Labor Day Weekend often marks the return of familiar patterns: school, football, consistent schedules and ways of doing things. Here at Royal, we are taking a different approach this fall, ushering in a slate of major additions and upgrades at various levels of the company which should...
Royal Coffee has been sourcing, buying, and selling green coffee since 1978. During that time, our focus has always been on showcasing the best single origins we can. While single origins are an integral part of the supply chain, it overlooks something roasters have been asking for: year-round...
You may have heard about the recent transportation strikes in Colombia, the longest such strikes in Colombia’s history. Then again, you may have not. After 46 days of strike, agreements were reached with Colombia’s trucker’s unions including concessions on truck maintenance, an affordable housing...
Catracha Coffee single farm micro-lots have arrived from Honduras. These coffees are produced by small individual farmers and arrived here in Oakland ranging in size from 5 bags up to 20 bags, marked with the farmer’s name to ensure traceability for each lot. These are not cooperative coffees,...
Keep on Truckin' by Evan Gilman As importers, we deal intimately with the comings and goings of coffee. The journey from our warehouse to yours is the last leg we see with great detail. We are more than happy when the coffee gets to you without incident, and less than surprised when the coffee...
How is Climate Effecting the Spread of Leaf Rust? by Kevin Stark Editor's Note: This is part of a continued series on our commitment to the Catracha Quality Project. Look for further articles and for the arrival of these coffees in the coming months. We have a few of these coffees available SPOT...
At Royal Coffee, we’ve been lucky enough to watch the specialty coffee sector grow from an esoteric niche to a full-throttled industry. One of the most exciting developments is in the heartland of the country, roasters across the Midwest and South chiming in with their own ideas and innovations. ...
The Containers are Stacked Against Us by Evan Gilman In the July edition of the Royal News, I wrote briefly on the topic of shipping delays and some of the root causes. If you have ever experienced a shipping delay, however, you know just how widespread the effects of even a small delay can be. I...
Shipping is just like the coffee industry – the closer you look, the more complex it seems. Royal is currently experiencing some delays in shipping, and although delays on imports are not a rare occurrence, wait times and frequency of delays are increasing for some very interesting reasons. The...
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...
