/files/u707/IMG_4196_0.jpg" alt="My new French Press" title="My new French Press" align="top" border="0" width="300" height="400" /> It’s been hyped more than Apple’s new iPad. Well maybe that’s not true, but among coffee snobs aficionados, the pressure is palpable: if you want to...
Colombian coffee is one of the most balanced, versatile origins in the world. Learn what shapes the flavor, which regions to know, and why freshness makes the difference.
Siphon demonstration on how to make exceptional coffee at home A gourmet coffee demo like no other, Frank Lanzkron Tamarazo, owner of acclaimed Chazzano Coffee Roasters in Ferndale, Michigan, brings us into a professional coffee brewing and tasting session. Learn...
Last week, I volunteered at a booth at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. The booth belonged to the Hawaii Coffee Association and its purpose was to promote Hawaiian coffees. Few other booths were dedicated to coffee at the...
/files/u707/IMG_4189.jpg" border="0" align="top" height="256" width="384" />In both biscotti’s posts so far, I’ve reviewed single-origin coffees; not specific brands or crops, just coffees that came entirely from one of the world’s main coffee growing regions. So far, I’ve sampled coffee from...
OK. Biscotti’s first post was well received. Blessing/curse. Now what should I write about this week? Well, this isn’t a news blog. My focus shouldn’t be the latest, behind-the-scenes corporate maneuvering at Starbucks, or its next consumer rollout. Nor am...
/files/u707/IMG00019-20100106-1105.jpg" align="top" height="222" width="333" />You mean I get to blog about coffee? For real? Where's the cameras - c'mon, who put you up to this?Oh, OK. You were serious. Let's begin.First, a smidge of background. For a long time, I...
The endless blue ocean that is the Arafura Sea meets Papua with a violent shudder of breaking surf on rocky beaches. Papua simply rises out of the water like some strange prehistoric animal. Ponderous, enormous, mysterious. The mountains climb endlessly,...
Photo by Blogdeguatemala.com Landing in Guatemala City is a pleasure to the sight. Clear blue sky, sunlight softly caressing the magnificent volcanoes, gently reminding us they are still alive. Agua volcano nourishes coffee plantations soils with sand, once in a while,...
I was born right next to a coffee plantation, here in San Jose, Costa Rica. Even my earliest memories are attached to the coffee. I remember when I was around 3 years old to see my grandmother roasting coffee in...
As if it wasn't complicated enough.Sometimes I think that coffee is more complicated than wine. Forget about the up-front factors, like location, weather, ripeness of the fruit, processing, aging, etc. They both have those things in common. I'm just talking...
Guatemala City, November 8th. 2009. The National Growers Association's, ANACAFE, officials announced yesterday that Raul Rodas was the three time winner of the Guatemala Barista Competition. Noe Castro, representing Café San Lucas and Barista Champion in 2006, and Pablo Bobadilla...
I well remember the proverbial first day of the rest of my life. I had arrived in Bali at 10.30pm after leaving Wellington some 23 hours previously and transiting in Sydney. I was on a QANTAS flight packed with an...
Last week, I had the great pleasure of co-hosting the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe's (SCAE) origin tour to Hawai‘i. Ok, I wasn't really hosting; rather, I was giving moral support. Andrew Hetzel of Cafemakers did all the hard work...
For most people the geography lesson is not necessary. Java is a name that has been closely associated with coffee ever since the Dutch East Indies Company began growing the trees on the island in the early years of the...
As a new member of the roaste.com site, I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge about Indonesian coffee with all the members here. I have been living here in Indonesia working with farmers throughout Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Flores, Bali...
Our customers can now purchase coffee direct from Costa Rica, shipped direct to your home, by Cafe Paradiso in San Jose, Costa Rica. We've been negotiating for months with this innovative roaster in Costa Rica coffee/wp/wp-content/uploads/files/uploads/paradiso_shadegrown_sticker.jpg" alt="Cafe Paradiso Shadegrown /...
/files/u143/SanGuayabapeq.jpg" alt="Guatemala coffee Finca El Socorro y Anexos, located in Palencia municipality, Guatemala department" title="Guatemala coffee Finca El Socorro y Anexos, located in Palencia municipality, Guatemala department" height="336" width="448" /> Guatemala coffee Finca El Socorro y Anexos, located in Palencia...
I was born and spent my pre-teen years on the island of Trinidad, in the Caribbean, and I have fond memories of coffee. Not the beans, the fruit.For some reason, we never had real coffee in the house. My mom...
Our roasters make small batches of exceptional coffee. It will arrive to your home fresher than anything you've purchased before. It won't be overroasted like Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and other supermarket brands. It will be half the price of Starbucks...
Buy micro-lot coffees. These premium coffees can be traced to a specific crop and season. They taste better. Or buy a single origin coffee for a unique taste. Store in an airtight container in your panty, not in the refrigerator...
