Pourover ist fallen!!!
Some nerds make a most delightful video on a pourover controversy. Genießen!!
March 2011
9 posts
upcoming coffees
We have a few more coffees coming next week; you should see them on our shelves by Friday.
Ethiopia Sidama Bonko
Ethiopia Limu Nigusie Lemma (dry processed)
Rwanda Remera Nyarusiza
Papua New Guinea Kimel AA
Colombia Los Galapones (Manuel Santacruz)
The last coffee in particular, I am excited about. Colombia has pioneered a program that allows farmers to micromill their coffee and sell it separately from pooled lots. Within this system, farms as small as a few hectares can sell their coffee through traceable means. The benefit of this is the individual landowning farmer can market and sell their coffee and reap the profits directly. This is a great program and unlike co-operatives, encourages smallholder land ownership.
We also have one last roast of Sumatra Blue Batak remaining as well as one last roast of Rwanda Rushashi - they will be on our shelves this weekend, so if you loved these coffees, now is your last chance!
“Starbucks isn’t marketing (or trademarking-for the paranoiacs out there) the word “bold.” It’s an approachable descriptor that they’ve organized their whole bean menu around for decades so that some unsuspecting folgers drinker doesn’t wander in off the street, order the Kenya, only to taste grapefruit notes, soil themselves, and forget who they are for a half hour.”
—My favourite quote of the moment, courtesy of Mr. Brett Hanson. Although it has been noted by others, no Sbux coffee has ever exhibited notes of grapefruit. :)
the green [buyer's] perspective on rising coffee prices (link) →
cafeimports.com
Astute words and a short but sweet read, from Tim O’Brien, who works for CafeImports, a major green coffee importer out of Minneapolis, MN.
“Having just returned from 3 origin countries and seeing a very different atmosphere in the coffee regions than I normally would witness, it seemed that at origin these prices are a huge “fix” over the many years of inequitable or even artificially low coffee prices in many coffee regions that allowed many small producers survive, but very little else. These are some good times for producers and, for many, there are now some extra funds to invest in the coffee farm, fix up the house, get new clothes, send kids to school, pay off debts, and fix the work truck.”
http://www.cafeimports.com/grinder/2011/03/the_coffee_fix.php
welcome to our revamped [tum]blog
Once upon a time I was a prolific blogger…. then i started a coffeebar.
4 years later, I’ve started a roastery, and the whole coffee thing is new to me, all over again. I’ve been finding with the advent of roasting, I once again have stuff to share!
