Exchange is the Only Constant: The Evolution of Ethiopia’s Commodity Marketplace

by Chris Kornman | Feb 20, 2019 | Education & Resources, Origin & Supply Chain Education

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Roast Magazine, and is reprinted here with permission. The original article can be viewed and downloaded here, graciously provided courtesy Roast Magazine. Exchange is the Only Constant The Evolution of...

Royal Coffee Ethiopia Origin Trip 2017

by Evan Gilman | Jan 17, 2018 | Editorial, News

Royal Coffee recently took a trip to Ethiopia, where we met with various exporters and producers, and explored the country from bustling Addis Ababa to remote Gedeb. We visited the production facilities that have brought us such wonderful Ethiopian coffee over the...

Back on the Horse

by Max Nicholas-Fulmer | Jan 9, 2018 | Coffee Report, Editorial

  Harar has always held a special place in my heart. One of the very first coffee trips I ever took involved meeting The Man in Harar, Mohamed Abdullahi Ogsadey, quite literally a Somali King with four wives and nearly 50 children. I was seven. For years, Royal...

From Popayán to Oakland: One coffee’s sojourn measured in human hands and daily temperatures

by Chris Kornman | Sep 7, 2016 | Education & Resources, Origin & Supply Chain Education

Once a coffee cherry is picked from the branch, every step it takes until it’s brewed is a desperate act of preservation, a struggle against the entropy that will inevitably degrade the dying seed. In a perfect world, short distances traveled in stable environments...