Rwanda – Getting Back to Coffeelands
June 13, 2022
Everything seems different with “coffee travel” these days. Maybe that’s good though … Work has changed and approaches to work have changed. I realize people
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Travelogues include photo documentary of regional visits, trips and farm / producer portraits. They range from medium length to some with 200+ photos, all captioned!
Everything seems different with “coffee travel” these days. Maybe that’s good though … Work has changed and approaches to work have changed. I realize people
Why tasting chocolate
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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 whole story of a half-hearted return to travel After two years this was baby steps back toward coffee travel, a relatively short hop (or
Roha was the original name for this small town placed at 2500 meters in the Amharic region of Northern 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. It was the center of
A trip from way back in 2006, with images of farms, coffee cooperatives, and highland kitsch. Regions of Cuzco, Quillabamba, San Martin, Huallaga, Tarapoto, Lamas…
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 certainly the dominant coffee. Peaberries are often More has been considered by traders as a “lesser Kenya” in many respects. That’s not fair though. In the commercial business, it is the source
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 is in trouble, always: Uncertain harvests, poverty, bad policy, and a poor international reputation a permanent crisis cycle. That’s not new, as there always
A final trip for Dan before the Covid-19 Pandemic hit, and travel restrictions came into effect. When I returned from my GuatemalaGuatemalan coffee is considered
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 a unique Indonesian coffeeIndonesian coffee is known for its unique earthy, potent flavors. Some like it, some hate it, but it's certainly distinctive. Much of the coffee in Indonesia is processed using the unique method called "Giling Basah," More area, not just because the Komodo Dragons are so close… but because of the excellent coffee quality. FloresFlores is
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