Category: Country Profiles

Okay, it is a continent and an island. But how do you classify Australian coffee?

Burundi is a small landlocked country at the crossroads of East and Central Africa, straddling the crest of the Nile-Congo watershed.

Coffee from the Indonesian island of Bali was formerly sold exclusively to the Japanese market.

Frank Sinatra sang, “They grow an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.” It is unquestionably true; it’s the largest producer of arabica coffee and not a small amount of robusta too.

The arabica coffee plant was brought to Indonesia from India in 1696. Java coffee had a legendary status around the world until the last century.

Coffee from Myanmar is not seen often in the US marketplace. In fact after the one offering we had from 2000, we haven’t see in since!

Cameroon is an oddball in the Specialty Coffee terms.

Coffea arabica came to Tanzania with Jesuits and German colonization, and it was likely quite similar Bourbon varieties still grown to this day.

Coffee from China is becoming interesting, as better farming practices are being employed in some cases, and coffee is being planted at higher elevations than before.