Coffee Origins
Ecuador: A Small Country With Huge Potential in the Coffee World
Coffee was first grown in Ecuador back in 1860. Farmers established plantations in coastal areas to produce instant coffee. Coffee grown in this ar...
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Coffee Brewing
Coffee Tasting Episode 2 | Brazil Cachoeira da Grama Peaberry
Welcome to the second episode of our coffee tasting series. In this series, we select a coffee, brew it, and share what we think about it. We do t...
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Coffee Brewing
Coffee Tasting Episode 1 | Guatemala Los Cedros Esperanza Gold Label
Welcome to our new series of videos. We will select a coffee, brew it, and share what we think about them. We’ll do it in a group because the coffe...
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Coffee Brewing
The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
It is thought that coffee originated in Ethiopia and dating back to the ninth century. Since then, coffee continues to be an integral part of the E...
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Coffee Brewing
The Best Way to Brew Coffee While Camping
Making coffee portable has reached a new level in recent years, which is good news for someone like me. Hiking, camping, and other outdoor activiti...
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Coffee Brewing
How to Brew With the AeroPress
The AeroPress is a brewing device that has revolutionized coffee brewing on the go. While you sit in your camping chair enjoying the outdoors, you ...
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Coffee Sourcing
Get to Know ONYX Coffee, Our Direct Supplier of Guatemalan Coffee
Since the beginning, Guatemala has been one of our top-selling origins. The success of our Guatemalan beans is widely due to the incredible harvest...
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Coffee Origins
How Coffee Gets So Expensive and Why We Want It to Be
Have you wondered why coffee can be so expensive? When you take a closer look at the economics of coffee production, it starts to make more sense. ...
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Coffee Origins
Peru's Origin Story: Why Their Coffee is a Labor of Love
Peru started growing coffee in the 1700s. For much of the country's history, coffee was kept as a domestic product. But in the early 1900s, foreign...
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Coffee Sourcing
The Seasonality of Coffee
Much like any other crop, there is a prime season for harvesting coffee. As I have mentioned before in other blogs, coffee beans come from a specif...
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Coffee Origins
The Tanzanian Story of Peaberry Coffee
Coffee plants usually produce cherries with two beans. Once in a while you instead of two beans, there's only one bean. That is how Peaberry coffee...
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Coffee Origins
The Eruption of the Volcan de Fuego
In recent years I have become more and more familiar with the region of Antigua, not for it’s coffee but for family reasons. As I mentioned in the ...
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Coffee Origins
Get to Know the Angel’s Mountain Coffee Farm in El Salvador
The Angel's Mountain coffee tradition has been around since the 1850s. It is a family-owned business whose heart behind what they do goes far beyon...
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