Finca Santa Ines, Antigua Guatemala
March 28, 2022
This will be the second year we offer lots from the Santa Inés coffee farm, so it’s time for a short video and photo introduction
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Videos from travels to coffee origins. These include a range of overview videos to focused pieces on a single micro-region or a group of farmers. These pull from our extensive YouTube channel of coffee travel videos and others.
This will be the second year we offer lots from the Santa Inés coffee farm, so it’s time for a short video and photo introduction
The Indonesian island of Java
There are several types of Abyssinia, but they are not from Ethiopia but rather Indonesia. Abyssinia 3 = AB3. PJS Cramer, a Dutch plant researcher, introduced this variety in 1928, supposedly from Ethiopia seed stock. It was More is an important coffee source for us. Here’s a video of coffee millA coffee mill might mean a coffee grinder, but we usually use the term to refer to a coffee processing facility, either a Wet-Mill or a Dry Mill. A wet mill will be part of More visits and other wackiness. Here’s some video
The Indonesian island of FloresFlores is an Indonesian island, and as a coffee bears more resemblance to the coffees of Timor-Leste, New Guinea and Java than to the wet-hulled coffees of Sumatra and Sulawesi. It is sweet, with good More is an important coffee source for us. Here’s a video of coffee farm visits and other wackiness. Here’s some video
The KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both More coffee auctions are a minor miracle, that excellent small lots are put up for sale based on cup quality. This vintage video is
Gitwe is a station we started buying from in 2018, and we are really happy with it … another simple iPhone video here discussing their
Some ambient scenes from the Kafa zone of Western Ethiopia
Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee: it is in the forests of the Kaffa region that coffee arabica grew wild. Coffee is "Bun" or "Buna" in Ethiopia, so Coffee Bean is quite possibly a poor More, and a look at a couple nice farms. Sorry for silly introduction on my Kafa
CongoKivu is the general name for East Congo (Kinshasa), covering a very broad geographical area, and the lake of the same name that divides them. It borders on Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Lake Tanganyika on More is complicated: Instability means coffee farmers can’t find a stable market, or even farm their crop without sometimes facing
Facing can mean turning toward, standing up to, being brave. But in coffee roasting though, it means scorching a roast.: Facing refers to scorch marks found on the flat side or face of the coffee More threats. The issues in CongoKivu
Video and commentary from a trip the Rwenzori range of Western UgandaWhile Arabica was introduced at the beginning of the 1900's, Robusta coffee is indigenous to the country, and has been a part of Ugandan life for centuries. The variety of Wild Robusta Coffee still growing More .
Coffee quality isn’t an accident: See the work behind Cyato coffee This is a walk around and photo montage of RwandaRwandan coffee was, at one
Welcome to Dusangirijambo, a 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 and Central Africa, straddling the crest of More coffee cooperative in the Kayanza region, close to the RwandaRwandan coffee was, at one time, rarely seen in the United States as either a Specialty grade or low-end commercial coffee. There simply was not that much coffee produced in Rwanda that went anywhere besides More border. We have traveled here many times over the last
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