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 Sourcing Explained
Demystifying Green Coffee Sourcing from Origin to Roastery As a two hundred year old, traditional supply chain company, Volcafe had no public face. However, its [...]
Demystifying Decaf Green Coffee — A Roaster’s Guide to Decaffeination
Coffee is naturally caffeinated, but for people who are sensitive, a dose of 50 to 100 milligrams of caffeine in your average cup of coffee is way [...]
Tanzania Green Coffee Origin Report
Tanzania is one of the largest countries in Africa by area and Arabica coffee production is around 650,000 bags (over 85 million pounds) per year [...]
Understanding C-Market Price Swings and the Brazil Frost
In late July a severe frost hit Brazil's coffee growing regions. Most affected were South de Minas and Parana. Yet another cold front hit the [...]
Green Coffee Prices | A Beginners Guide
The price of Green Coffee generally gravitates around the regulated futures exchanges which, for both Arabica and Robusta, used to operate with real-live humans in New York [...]
18 Must-Know Green Coffee Terms
Buying specialty green coffee with Genuine Origin is straightforward and simple — our prices are transparent, our Q-graders give us flavor notes and scores, shipping [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lightwave Coffee Roasters Is on a Journey
“I knew I wanted to be in the hospitality industry, I just wasn’t quite sure how,” says Joy Park, owner of Elabrew Coffee and Lightwave Coffee [...]
Fourth-Wave Coffee Will Break All the Barriers
Emily Smith spent several years as a quality-control manager for a large specialty roaster in Washington State before becoming an independent consultant to smaller roasters, [...]
Frequently Asked Questions: Answered!
What is a box of green coffee? We sell green coffee in 65-lb, GrainPro-lined cardboard boxes with handles, to make green coffee easier to move, store and [...]