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VARIETIES If you love coffee for its social aspect, this is the one for you. It’s a relationship coffee: one obtained through relationships and the perfect coffee to build them. When I first met the producer of...
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There are a lot of ways to take your coffee. You know how I take mine. Most people prefer it light brown. But there is a small segment of the population that seems to just drink coffee to get jacked. These...
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I met David De Olier in his chocolate shop in Salento, Quindio, Colombia. He took me to the tasting room and let me taste raw cacao, roasted cacao, and then chocolate from 100% all the way down to 65% dark....
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How about a “Bean Bundle”? If you’re looking for an out-there holiday gift idea, look no further! The DoubleShot Bean Bundle is a little side-by-side package partnering two of our favorite things: one pound of coffee beans from Hacienda La...
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In 2019 I visited some coffee producers in India and for the first time got to see peppercorns growing on the vine. I was staying at Balanoor Estate with the amazing Kuriyan family. I went for a run around their tea plantation,...
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VARIETIES You know Maracay for their washed Caturra, which we've had on the shelves since October. But you don’t know Maracay like this. Pink Bourbon is a variation of Bourbon that mutated up in the mountains of...
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Expeditions used to be so much more grandiose than they are today. In the "Age of Exploration," spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries, one struck out (from Spain or Portugal probably) hoping to locate some new landmass off in...
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I was in Nicaragua, packing up to leave the town of Ocotal for a long trip on winding roads with my friend Luis. Earlier that morning, Juan Ramon (owner of Finca Montelin) brought a bag of butter cookies for our...
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Coffees, like clothing styles, are constantly changing. That's one big difference between commercial coffee and specialty coffee. It's a seasonal crop, and while there are a few staples that never seem to go out of fashion, the majority of our offerings are...
If you’ve been paying attention at all the last few years, you likely know that I love the Wichita Mountains. I mean, really, that place is like nowhere else I’ve ever been, and I’ve been a lot of places. It’s a wildlife refuge, so I feel safe there. And that wildlife refuge wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Teddy Roosevelt. Well… let me back up. This entire country was a bit of a wildlife refuge until European settlers decided to round up the natives and rid the continent of its furry, four-legged fauna. The Wichita Mountains were originally established as a forest reserve by President McKinley in 1901. Then Roosevelt designated it as a game preserve in 1905. And this... Continue Reading →
Sometimes I pace around the office soliloquizing on the finer details of coffee or on grandiose generalizations about the state of our industry. Mark, usually eyeballs deep into his laptop, stops and watches me amble and ramble, wondering how deep the well of thought might extend, how it might end, and if there is hope interwoven into my usually-troublesome insights. And that’s why I was glad that Mark went with me to Portland last month to attend the annual conference of the Specialty Coffee Association. The Specialty Coffee Association. That sounds … well it sounds big to me. But when we told the transit cop on the Portland train that we were in town for a coffee conference, he laughed... Continue Reading →
