According to the owner of the stoneworks auction website, I was one of up to 3000 users watching or participating in the latest auction. It went on for 9 hours and you had to feel very, very sorry for the Japanese who would have started bidding at 10pm and finished around 7am. (though [...]
This article is a simplified version of what was researched and written for the attempted coffeed study group. Sadly that project didn’t take off - however I am grateful to people like Andy Schecter and Jim Schulman for publishing the papers they wrote regardless. The article doesn’t focus much on cup quality and [...]
Sometimes the smallest things set your brain off thinking down a particular track. For me it was the last post on the Sweet Marias blog, which got me thinking about the rise of what I call Story Coffees over the last few years.
From the outset I will make it clear that I love to know [...]
This is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while, but hadn’t gotten anywhere with. Tonight I was flicking through the Illy book looking for something else and then starting reading the varietals page and thought I’d try something simple to see how it looked. It is pretty badly labeled at this [...]
Today was a good day. Mercanta had a Meet the Grower event for some farmers from the Quebradon Cooperative. I was really looking forward to this because I am a huge fan of their coffee, and this year’s crop really is great. It was so good in fact that during Anette’s practise for the World [...]
