Coffee Buying, Uncategorized
Our Most Frequently Asked Question (Hint: Contracts)
Genuine Origin has a unique (or dare we say: disruptive) business model. It’s pretty simple, but it’s different from…
February 9, 2018ROASTERS, ORIGINS, COFFEES
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Peru, Volcafe WayFrom Incan Ancestors, Incredible Coffees
“You can easily have coffee all year round,” says Roberto Ortiz with Prodelsur, Genuine Origin’s sister organization in Peru,…
February 2, 2018 -
Colombia, Volcafe WayMeet Colombia Huila Garzon
Coffee roasters have fallen in love with our Colombia Nariño, so we’re particularly excited to share that in February…
January 26, 2018 -
Coffee Life, Roaster LifeStreet Bean Gives New Meaning to ‘Coffee Futures’
Street Bean Coffee Roasters’ slim black-and-white cold brew cans are labeled: CAFFEINE + HUMANITY. It’s a reference to the…
January 11, 2018 -
Brazil, Volcafe Way7 Insights into Specialty Coffee from Brazil
The specialty coffee industry in Brazil does just about everything just a bit differently, particularly compared to its coffee-producing…
December 21, 2017 -
Coffee Buying, Coffee Life5 Green Coffees, 10 Cents Off, One Week Only
Each week we select one special coffee to feature as our #MondayMonday: A deal that lasts one full week,…
December 11, 2017 -
Coffee Roasting, Volcafe Way, Women in CoffeeWhen #shestheroaster—and the Coffee Producer
Modest Coffee, in Aurora, Ill., has dubbed 2017 the Year of Women. “This year began with women across the…
December 7, 2017 -
Coffee Life, Featured, Papua New Guinea, Volcafe WayPapua New Guinea: One Valley, Two Coffees
Papua New Guinea sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a basin in the Pacific Ocean where scraping tectonic plates trigger…
November 30, 2017 -
Coffee Buying, FeaturedHolding Fees, Carry Charges and Other Things We Don’t Do
Hotels, taxis, groceries — lots of industries have been “disrupted” and are now far more efficient, transparent and user-friendly versions…
November 16, 2017 -
Coffee Life, Flavor Notes, Roaster LifeCoffees for that Holiday Feeling
Whether bright baking spices, chocolate and citrus or dark fruits like sugar plums are your favorite holiday flavors, we’d got just…
November 9, 2017 -
Coffee Life, Competition CoffeeThrowdown Champ Lance Hedrick Is Going to Guatemala
“It was a pretty good weekend,” said Lance Hedrick, lead barista and manager at The Hub, a new…
November 9, 2017 -
Colombia, Roaster LifeRoasting Notes: Máquina Coffee’s Gabe Boscana & Colombia Nariño
The day our latest Colombia Nariño arrived, we reached out to Gabriel Boscana at Máquina Coffee Roasters about spending some time…
November 1, 2017 -
Costa Rica, Volcafe Way, Women in Coffee“I Am Winning.” Volcafe Way Conversations, Part 2
Riley Thomson, head of the Volcafe Way program in Costa Rica, recently interviewed Carol Mata Gutierrez, a coffee producer in Tarrazú,…
October 26, 2017 -
Costa Rica, Volcafe WayCoffee Growing Is Hard. Volcafe Way Is Helping.
Riley Thomson, head of the Volcafe Way program in Costa Rica, spoke recently with Victor Hugo Sanchez Fonseca, a coffee producer…
October 25, 2017 -
Coffee Buying, Coffee Life, Featured, Volcafe WayWhat’s a Microlot?
There are some pretty flexible definitions in coffee, and microlots and macrolots (or community lots, as we refer to…
October 19, 2017 -
Coffee Life, GuatemalaSmalltown Throwdown, Big Coffee Love
At The Abbey Coffee Co., Roastmaster Levi McClish is growing his coffee community beyond his small town —and encouraging…
October 12, 2017