You might be looking at our offering list right now thinking, “where is all the coffee?” Ordinarily late winter/early spring is a time where new cropRefers to fresh shipments of green coffee within the first month or two of the earliest arrivals ... not quite the same as Current Crop, which means the... ...more from Latin America and Africa are on the horizon, so our list starts to dwindle quite a bit until those new arrivals show up. This year there’s the additional challenge of months of labor disputes, work slowdowns, and port closures that have held up all sea shipments coming through West Coast ports, especially the Port of Oakland.
We’ve got a few containers on the water that we’ve redirected to other ports to be unloaded and shipped to Oakland via railway, but most shipments are still going to take an extra 3 weeks or so for unloading and processingThe removal of the cherry and parchment from the coffee seed.: Coffee is either wet-processed (also called washed or wet-milled) or dry-processed (also called wild, natural or natural... ...more through customs.
I know a lot of folk are waiting for Centrals right now, but this brings to mind something we were talking about last year: is originIn coffee talk, it refers to a coffee-producing region or country; such as, "I was just at origin." Of course "Origin" for most product we use is not... ...more more important than flavor attributes? We have fresh coffees from BurundiBurundi coffee bears resemblance to neighboring Rwanda, in both cup character, but also the culture surrounding coffee. Burundi is a small landlocked country at the crossroads of East... ...more and RwandaA Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. Bourbon coffees are named for the island in the India Ocean where French colonists grew it. Some history from the... ...more that could easily take the place of Centrals on your list, profile-wise, the best of these also fulfilling the need for exotic African coffees (see Gitesi, Collines).
Stay tuned for new arrivals from ColombiaColombian coffee is highly marketed and widely available in the US. They have been largely successful at equating the name Colombian Coffee with "Good" Coffee. This is half-true.... ...more, TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is... ...more and El SalvadorEl Salvador coffee had an undeservingly poor reputation for years, marred mostly by the inability to deliver coffee of high quality in an unstable political climate. Unfortunately, agriculture... ...more before the end of the month!
