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Thoughts on the last Esmeralda auction

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 you suspect …

May 24, 2008 – 1:33 pm | By James Hoffmann | Posted in Coffee, Green Coffee, Opinion, Origin, Roasting | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (15)

From Costa Rica until Christmas

This blog has been very quiet these last couple of weeks, the main reason being that I haven not! (Warning – long post to follow!) So last time I posted it was about the evil Broca, which no one likes. The reason I had seen so much about them was that I had spent a …

December 23, 2007 – 11:24 pm | By James Hoffmann | Posted in Coffee | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (13)

Off to Costa Rica

Writing this from Miami airport (not a likeable airport at all, but that could be jetlag/travel cynicism kicking in). About to catch my flight down to San Jose and then I am there for a week doing various bits and pieces. The video camera is packed, the camera too so I shall try and record …

December 9, 2007 – 9:40 pm | By James Hoffmann | Posted in Origin | Tagged , , | Comments (2)