Today, Brazil is home to approximately 300,000 coffee farmers in 2,000 municipalities — but it hasn’t always been that way. Find out how Brazil became a major player in the coffee trade and why it remains a popular export in modern times...
The specialty team used coffees from the Minas region with cocoa and toffee notes to develop a unique green coffee blend designed for espresso under the Eagle brand. Eagle Mogiana is a sweet and structured natural blend of hand-picked farms created with consistency in mind, and works well as an espresso component or single origin...
Café Delas does not simply search for circumstances where women are the decision makers behind a coffee. Olam actively provides outreach and education to women involved in coffee to equip them for being decision makers. Café Delas actively participates in facilitating access to resources for women coffee farmers and requires that women in the Café Delas program are involved in leadership, have a voice in the community, and are paid directly for the coffee they bring to market...
Colombian coffee is considered to be some of highest quality coffee in the world. Known for its mellow acidity, subtle sweetness, and nutty undertones, it’s no wonder that this coffee varietal is a popular one. Even more interesting than its flavor profile, however, is its unique South American history. Curious? We were, too, which is why we dove head first into the history of Colombian coffee...
When did Colombia start growing coffee? As with many coffee origins, it is believed that coffee was first brought to Colombia by priests, arriving, perhaps, within a decade or two after coffee first came to the Americas via the Caribbean in the first half of the 17th century...
While the history of Costa Rican coffee is the subject of some debate, it is generally estimated that coffee came to Costa Rica as early as 1779. Within 50 years, Costa Rican coffee beans were generating more revenue than any other crop, and by the 1830s, the country was growing more coffee than the ships heading south could take...
Coffees that receive the genuine Antigua “Geographic Indication” consistently demonstrate a balance of acidity and body, a complex variety of sweetness and citrus, and always pronounced and pleasing aromatics.
To encounter children in coffee-growing regions is to almost always encounter poverty, more or less, and question the economics of the supply chain and our role in that supply chain...
Over a hundred years ago, when Don Vicente López started a coffee farm in the mountains outside the city of Jinotega, coffee represented 65% of Nicaragua’s exports...
When 200 pounds of Panama Geisha coffee sold for over $1,000 per pound at auction in 2019—shattering the previous record by hundreds of dollars—growing coffee for the purpose of export was less than 90 years old in Panama...
Producing specialty coffee is never really a policy decision and, in fact, policy makers are notoriously bad at “regulating” specialty coffee into existence. At the farm and mill level, specialty coffee is the result of many small and sometimes seemingly inconsequential adjustments, changes that often resembles acts of faith for a farmer or the owner of a mill...
