March 21, 2024

Guji Uraga Forest Coffees Stay Winning

In Southern Ethiopia’s Guji Uraga region lies a dense, mountainous forest containing some of Ethiopia’s most extreme altitudes. Within this immense forest lies an array of distinct subregions, where we source…

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Ode to the 86

March 19, 2024

The 86 point coffee: clean, sweet, and bright; complex but subtle. In specialty coffee we sometimes forget how incredible 86 point coffees are: how much goes into them, how absolutely…

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Setting the Bar with Oaxaca

March 14, 2024

Oaxaca hosts our longest-standing, deepest relationships in all of Mexico—it’s the area that drew us in and keeps us going deeper every year. The coffees here are incredibly special, both in their elegance and…

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Underdog Harvest Emerges Victorious in Veracruz

March 14, 2024

Although it’s not something you might typically associate with Veracruz community lots, they actually host such a fantastic balance between quality and price point that they’re often sold out completely before…

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Interviews

Become an Expert at Menu Planning

March 6, 2024

Green coffee purchasing and menu planning have always been challenging, but the last few years have been a whole different game: tumultuous and volatile, requiring an unprecedented balancing act of…

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Agaro, Ethiopia Coming in Hot 2024

February 28, 2024

After weeks in Ethiopia cupping and making commitments, we’re kicking off the Ethiopia hype with Agaro. Our oldest relationship in Ethiopia and one of our oldest in the world, Agaro…

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New Challenges, Top Quality in Kenya 2024

February 21, 2024

After several weeks on the ground in Kenya meeting with partners, cupping, and making commitments, we’re back in the states and feeling on solid ground despite the novel complexity we’re…

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Shipping Update

New Logistical Shocks Plus More Great Coffee on the Horizon: Q1 2024

January 17, 2024

Welcome to Q1 of 2024. As we bring in the last of our Peru & launch into Ethiopia, Mexico, & Kenya seasons, we also see logistical shocks due to both…

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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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Welcome (Back) to Bolivia

October 19, 2023

If you’ve known us for long, you know our Bolivia roots run deep: over 15 years deep, to be exact. It’s an origin we’ve bought from in the past (the…

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