Coffee industry news for those inclined.
Last in a three-part series on the varietals behind the coffee we roast. We started with heirloom Ethiopian landraces, then Caturra, the mutation that scaled Latin American coffee. We end with the variety that did the opposite: stayed small, stayed difficult, and became the most expensive coffee in the world almost by accident. For most…
Second in a three-part series on the varietals behind the coffee we roast. Last week: heirloom Ethiopian landraces. This week, the mutation that reshaped an entire continent’s coffee economy. If heirloom Ethiopian coffee represents genetic diversity at its widest, Caturra sits at the opposite end of the story: a single natural mutation, discovered on one…
First in a three-part series on the varietals behind the coffee we roast, starting where coffee itself started. Open a bag of Ethiopian coffee and you’ll almost always find the same word somewhere on the label: heirloom. Not Bourbon, not Typica, not any of the tidy single-variety names you’ll see on a Colombian or Costa…
A closer look at the growing regions, farmers, and processes behind Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.