February 4, 2020

Sample Roasting

This piece was originally published here in 2016 and shares some general principles, specifics, and best practices. To learn more about our current sample roasting program, click here.  Hi folks,…

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We’re Opening a Year-Round Lab in Oaxaca, Mexico

February 3, 2020

Why Mexico? As I rode in the back of a car, looking out at the green, rolling, coffee-laden hills of Veracruz a few weeks ago during early harvest meetings, one…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Nariño

January 16, 2020

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Coopbam, Peru

December 19, 2019

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Valle Inca

October 3, 2019

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to discuss it. While that series looked at…

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Quality

Age in Coffee: A Primer

August 15, 2019

Coffee is a seed, and like any other produce, it is perishable—meaning that even the very best, most shelf-stable coffees on the planet will eventually show their age. Coffee shelf-lives…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Inzá

August 1, 2019

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a coffee sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…

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Quality

Scaling Quality: Signal Detection Cupping

June 13, 2019

At Red Fox, our very small team cups a veritable ton of coffee. Whereas another importer might cup a single representative sample to purchase multiple containers from a coop, we…

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Sourcing

Pluma de Oaxaca: An Origin Reborn

May 23, 2019

The deeper we get into the world of Mexican coffee, the more excited we get, and those of you who have tasted the coffees or met some of our producing…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee—It’s Complicated: Part 5

May 6, 2019

Part 5: Asking the Right Questions Now that we’ve unpacked context on what goes into pricing coffee, from terms and language to production and operating costs to purchasing models and…

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