Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica. As I mentioned on a previous blog post related to Ethiopia’s forest coffees, coffee trees have grown there...
Origin: GUATEMALA - Promising Women Coffee Producers
Guatemala, a central American country which to be fair, I didn’t know much about before I got into coffee and to be honest, before writing this blog. They...
Origin: VIETNAM - It's Not All About Robusta Coffee
Did you know that Vietnam held its place as the second largest producer of coffee in the world? ‘Squeezed’ between Brazil and Colombia in 2018, Vietnam...
So, this time I’m going to start this story with a little bit of a ‘silly’ fact: did you know that Jamaican Blue Mountain beans are the base of the Tia...
Geographically, Yemen is located in the southern Arabian peninsula, in Western Asia. It borders the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea. A number...
Gesha aka Geisha coffee is one of the most exclusive coffees in the world. It is essentially a varietal and had become synonymous with Panama and although...
This article follows straight on from the Sulawesi coffee, also in Indonesia, so some of you will have read that and so already be familiar with how...
Origin: SULAWESI (Indonesia) - Sumatra's Cousin
Sulawesi is one of the four Greater Sunda Islands and forms part of Indonesia which consists of more than seventeen thousand islands including Sumatra...
There are plenty of phrases and words that have become synonymous with speciality coffee. One of those is ‘Microlots’. A lot of the time, you will see...
Origin: MEXICO
COFFEE PRODUCTION IN THE PAST
Mexico’s relationship with coffee, as with many of the central American countries, dates back to the 1700's. And yes, you...