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WHAT MAKES A GOOD COFFEE GREAT?
The Making of a Brazilian Coffee I have been mulling over this question for a while; what really makes a cup of coffee stand out from the rest? How do you determine its defining factor of quality? There are so many things at play in what we have come to understand as quality, but I really think we are still somewhat unsure of what it actually is. At many points in a coffee cherry’s life, events occur that can produce (or take away from) quality. The actual processing of the... Read more...
A BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR
When I first started travelling for my work, buying coffee across the globe, Brazil was the first origin I got to visit. When it was proposed I hop on a plane and head across the South Pacific to the tropical countryside of Brazil, it sounded a little like a clip from a 1950s movie. Maybe I would find myself in a bungalow with an in the depths of the jungle like the stories my mother tells of growing up in the plantations of Ceylon, long before civilization and progress changed... Read more...