The internet is quite talkative at the moment. The coffee sliver of the internet anyway. Lots of talk about seasonality, which is a good thing.
This does beg the question – how long is coffee good for? Green coffee I mean – we’re still arguing about roasted coffee’s shelf life and a great deal more time [...]
Well. I really didn’t do well this time! Having done ok on my 2008 predictions I must say that I can’t quite claim the same level of success for 2009.
My predicitons were:
1. Coffee Packaging takes a step forward
Nothing here to report. I don’t know if anyone has done anything interesting in 2009 with roasted coffee [...]
I suppose I consider my previous predictions (with your support) reasonably successful.
Just for fun I am going to make another 5 predictions and we’ll wait and see how they turn out!
1). Coffee packaging takes a big step forward
Think for a moment about how many kilos of espresso are brewed every day. Think about how many [...]
On January 2nd this year I made five predictions – you can read them here – and I guess before I put up my predictions for 2009 I should probably decide how well I did last year. Or better still – you guys decide!
1 – The spread of the Clover.
I could be really brave and [...]
A look back over the last 12 months, and all things coffee that have happened within them (both to me and others). World Championships, origin trips and other competitions as well as other coffee-centric highpoints of the year 2007.
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Occasionally being jetlagged can be a good thing.
Anette and I arrived into Bogota on Sunday evening, and collected by our host – Luis Velez – and dropped at our lovely hotel with the worrying news that in order to catch the 6.15 flight to Armenia we would need to be up at 4.30am. Thankfully [...]
I read as much as I can these days to try and keep abreast of what is going on and today I stumbled across something very interesting that Peter Giuliano had written.
When I was with Aida in Salvador in January, we talked about her identifying really awesome coffees she came across as “Aida’s Selections”, [...]
I am sure most folks will have seen this by now but if not the auction results for Best of Panama are here:
http://auction.stoneworks.com/includes/pa2007/final_results.html
Once again Esmeralda sets a new record……
Commentary on this already rages and it will be interesting to see how each of the winning members of the buying groups brings the coffee to market.
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I’ve been thinking about doing a green bean gallery for a while, and when I had a little spare time this evening I thought I’d have a go at it. Right from the off I should make it clear that this is not my [...]
