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Eyes on Milling: QC Keys

August 14, 2024

Every coffee starts its life as the seed of a fruit, then is processed out of the fruit down to its parchment layer. After that, all coffees go through milling…

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Quality

Cupping at Origin: The Complete Guide

June 17, 2024

Cupping, a simple and standardized tasting method used for assessing the raw quality of coffee, varies hugely between a home lab or roastery setting and origin. There are great reasons…

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Quality

Agaro’s Long Bloom: Labtime with Joel

November 1, 2023

Coffee is a living plant, and like other living things, it has an innate life cycle. We’ve talked about age in coffee before—what causes coffee to age, what age tastes…

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Quality

Why Forward Booking is a Powerful Tool

September 12, 2023

Forward booking, also called forward contracting, is a powerful tool—especially when you do it with Red Fox. It allows everyone, from individual smallholder farmers to producer association leaders to Red…

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Quality

Calibrating with Customers: Labtime with Joel

June 21, 2023

  One of the challenges we all face in the coffee industry is calibrating with customers on the taste of a coffee: what they mean when they use specific words,…

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Sourcing

Oaxaca: Truly Classic Coffees, An Endangered Species

April 24, 2023

Notes on Oaxaca coffees from Red Fox Mexico sourcing & sales lead Adam McClellan When we first started sourcing Oaxaca coffees, I felt that part of our efforts were to…

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Quality

Calibrating a Global Cupping Team: Labtime with Joel

February 21, 2023

At Red Fox, our coffee program relies from start to finish on a team of globally-distributed cuppers working simultaneously on shared standards. From the initial purchasing process, to the quality…

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Quality

Why we Switched to Roest: Labtime with Joel

December 13, 2022

When you’re a coffee buyer, sample roast quality and consistency are key. As a green coffee sourcing and trading company, we roast a ton of samples and make major decisions…

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Quality

Scaling Quality: Sample Roasting

February 6, 2020

Tasting coffee is the foundation of any high-quality coffee sourcing company, and you can’t taste coffee unless you roast it. Different companies take different approaches to sample roasting, but the…

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