Guatemala Coffee Update | February 2022
We spoke with Volcafe Guatemala, our sister co and Guatemala coffee sourcing team, about how harvest is going. What we learned was that market forces [...]
Are You New to Coffee Roasting?
Hey Coffee Roaster, are you getting started with coffee roasting or just new to Genuine Origin (GO — that’s what most roasters call us)? Well [...]
Papua New Guinea | Green Coffee Origin Report 2022
With around three to four months left until the start of the new harvest, this Papua New Guinea green coffee origin update comes at an [...]
The Price of Green Coffee | Explaining the Increase to Customers
As the C market rises, so does the price of green coffee. In December 2021, the C-market price for coffee hit a 10-year high – [...]
Green Coffee Mill in Jaén Celebrates Its First Birthday
Procesadora del Sur, Genuine Origin's sister company in Peru, is celebrating the first anniversary of its new green coffee mill in Jaén, in the Cajamarca coffee region in [...]
Volcafe Way Report – Making Coffee Producers Profitable
The Volcafe Way is the global farm sustainability arm of Volcafe (Genuine Origin's parent company). With hundreds of field technicians worldwide, Volcafe Way is helping [...]
Honduras Coffee Origin Report 2020
Honduras is a small Central American country with its share of problems. The World Bank estimates that in rural areas 20% of Hondurans earn less [...]
Anaerobic Process: New Flavors through Innovation
Costa Rica has made a name for itself by being at the forefront of innovation in coffee processing methods. Particularly famous for the honey process, [...]
La Morena 2018 – Empowering Women Coffee Producers
In 2017 we were determined to help female coffee producers, so we reached out to the International Women’s Coffee Alliance. We invited Women coffee producers [...]
Delight in Sugarcane Decaf Coffee
Since the discovery of the decaffeination process in the 1900s by Ludwig Roselius, progress has been made to enhance and preserve coffee’s flavor in addition [...]
When #shestheroaster—and the Coffee Producer
Modest Coffee, in Aurora, Ill., has dubbed 2017 the Year of Women. “This year began with women across the country marching against misogyny and inequality [...]
Holding 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 of what came before them. Genuine [...]
“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, about how coffee farming has changed — [...]
Coffee 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 in Perez Zeledon, about how coffee [...]
What’s a Microlot?
There are some pretty flexible definitions in coffee, and microlots and macrolots (or community lots, as we refer to them) are among the terms that [...]
Sample Roasting: A Direct-Trade Roaster’s Perspective
Jeremy Moore says he found his taste for coffee following his parents around the coffee shops of Europe. Much later, he and his wife Erika [...]