February 6, 2020

Scaling Quality: Sample Roasting

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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Sample Roasting

February 4, 2020

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: 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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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: 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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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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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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