关于咖啡，糖似乎是个不能回避的问题，特别是对于精品咖啡而言。 虽然我们不断改善产品的味道和品质，但还是有很多客人会习惯往咖啡中加奶油和糖。 但如果没有这些习惯加糖加奶客人，咖啡产业可能也不会发展到今天。 但问题是，咖啡是一杯个体感知产品，每个人都知道自己想要的产品是什么样的，而且已经成为一种饮用习惯。当然，我们希望我们的顾客都能品尝到我们想要让他们品尝的味道。 尽管如此，你无法阻止你的顾客往咖啡里加糖，这样只能让你的客人越来越少，据统计大约48%的咖啡饮用者，或者说将近一半的咖啡饮用者都习惯往咖啡中加糖。那我们为什么不能满足他们的需要呢？...
Last month I spent a few weeks playing with the rate of extraction, and came up with some interesting findings. Notably, I learned that the majority of extraction happens within the first 90 seconds of brewing; by that point most of the solids that are going to wash out of the coffee bean and into...
Hang up your hats and tie up those high horses, the great caffeine debate can be put to rest. All roasts are created equal. That's right. Under normal circumstances an 8oz cup of light roast has about the same amount of caffeine as the same serving of dark roast. Ready to dive down the rabbit...
We're adding a number of new classes to the calendar in March and April for 2018 before we head off to Expo in Seattle. Fact & Folklore: Coffee's Culture & Cultivation - a Interactive Lecture & Tasting at Pulley Collective - NEW! Tuesday, April 10 @ Pulley Collective in Oakland - $20...
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...
What really happens during extraction? There are some things we know, and some things that are still a little muddled. This week I did a few experiments in hopes of tightening up our understanding of how extraction works. What we know about extraction: We know that water is an excellent solvent....
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...
As part of Royal Coffee’s continued series of interviews with coffee producers, I am pleased to introduce Edith Meza Sagarvinaga, a coffee producer from Peru who recently sold coffee to Royal Coffee for the first time. Edith and her brother Ivan are second generation coffee producers and started...
Chris Kornman近期刊发在Royal Newsletter的关于产业供应链的文章很及时，他的感受与我最近到访危地马拉的经历有着异曲同工之妙。 正如Chris所说，咖啡处理和出口是与农业生产过程分开的两个独立环节，对于Royal的很多危地马拉咖啡供应商来说这是一个不争的事实。 出口商CAMEC 例如，来自危地马拉不同产区包括节枝庄园、Huixoc庄园、Limonar庄园以及安提瓜火山地区的的羊皮纸咖啡，都集中到一个名为CAMEC的危地马拉城的咖啡出口公司处理厂储存，这家家族企业建立于上世纪50年代，Royal和这家公司有着长期的合作关系。...
Introduction by Chris Kornman 简介 无论是自然处理法，还是日晒处理或者任何你所习惯的叫法，这种传统的咖啡处理加工方式都源自于埃塞俄比亚，直至今日几乎全球所有的咖啡产地都还沿用着这种咖啡处理的方式。将咖啡果整个带着果肉和果皮直接干燥处理，就像晒葡萄干一样，无论怎样演变和改进其中的过程，其根源都是埃塞俄比亚的日晒处理方法。在埃塞俄比亚，你还可以随处可见很多小农户将收集来的咖啡浆果晾晒在晒场或者直接放在草地上进行干燥和晾晒处理。和很多咖啡出口国不同，埃塞俄比亚是唯一一个全部咖啡都用来出口的国家，其每年的出口量就等于每年全国的咖啡产量。 Banko...
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Daily Coffee News on November 22, 2017. In what might be a foolhardy attempt to correlate two of coffee’s most complicated concepts, I’ve dedicated a significant portion of the past few months to examining the relationship between the water...
Sugar is not a common topic of conversation in specialty coffee - at least, not in the 'one lump or two?' sense. While focusing on how to improve the taste and quality of our product, we’ve forgotten that the vast majority of coffee consumers take their coffee with cream and sugar. Without the...
在精品咖啡领域，埃塞俄比亚无疑是一个非常重要的产地之一。几乎在所有烘焙商的清单上，你都可以轻易的找到埃塞俄比亚的字样，在各种咖啡竞赛中也几乎从未缺席领奖台，例如在“好食物奖”上拔得头筹被视为是皇冠宝石系列的主要原产地国之一。作为Royal埃塞俄比亚咖啡的买家，我有机会深入探索这片咖啡的天堂。每每收到埃塞俄比亚新季的顶级水洗和日晒处理的咖啡，总让我难以抑制心里的兴奋感。我除了去感受咖啡的味道、考虑他们恰当的用途、询问生产处理方法以外，最关注的一个问题就是这些咖啡生长的地理环境。埃塞俄比亚的地理环境相当复杂，由于埃塞俄比亚是一个多民族混合的国家，所以其地区基本是以文化特性和语言来划分的，错综复杂，...
考Q的经验分享 2003年，CQI（咖啡品质协会）推出了阿拉比卡咖啡Q grader项目，向咖啡专业人士授予专业证书，并利用这套体系对咖啡进行评分和定级。这是一项致力于咖啡全球标准化的项目，因为曾经通过感官来对咖啡进行分析和评价是非常主观的认定。一个人认为的深度烘焙，在另外一个人眼中可能是中度烘焙，或者在一个人的认识当中这种味道是浆果果酱的味道，而同样的味道，另外一个人却说是意大利黑醋，还有人说是……，还是让我们一起努力把标准统一了吧。 目前，世界范围内共有4000多人拥有Q...
Spotlight on the Warehouse I’ll never forget my first visit to our warehouse in Oakland. The sight of a 68,000 square foot warehouse stacked high with coffee is overwhelming to take in. I found myself staring in awe of the sheer volume, and then it dawned on me that the Royal Warehouse...
