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Does green coffee packaging actually affect cup quality? Short answer: yes. Here’s why it matters more than you might think.
You’ve seen the terms on bags, menus, and green coffee offerings. Single origin. Blend. Microlot. They get used a lot and sometimes interchangeably
Ethiopia is widely recognized as the birthplace of coffee, discovered by a goat herder named Kaldi during the 9th Century.
As we continue our series discussing processing methods, the next is carbonic maceration, a somewhat newer processing method that is gaining popularity.
Imagine securing incredible high quality specialty lots, shipping them, only to find upon arrival, after cupping, they are sitting a few points below your initial scores based on pre-shipment samples. This could likely be due to water activity being too high.
If you are in the coffee industry, no doubt you are keeping tabs on what is going on at the moment. We are currently in uncharted territory with the Arabica futures market hitting over US $4.30/lb last month
The first blog of the year is going to be about understanding coffee varieties.
With more than 125 coffee species, only two are commercially viable: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora (robusta).
We recently had some Mountain Water Process Decaf land in New Zealand and we thought this would be a great opportunity to provide some information on the two types of Decaf that we currently have in our warehouses.
We recently had some Mountain Water Process Decaf land in New Zealand and we thought this would be a great opportunity to provide some information on the two types of Decaf that we currently have in our warehouses.
Most of us spent a lot of time and money buying our favourite products or household necessities online during the pandemic. Things like coffee, equipment, technology or even food. . Some of us probably even picked up a new hobby and spent far too much money on the gear to get set up.
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