Tag Archives: Origin

Thoughts after a public cupping

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 7, 2009

I’ve really enjoyed the discussion going on after this post. One comment that stuck in my mind was Aldo’s Fazenda Kaquend COE Vs Maxwell House experiment. It definitely affected some decisions I made when I was choosing coffees to take with me to a public cupping I did in East London as part [...]

Posted in Coffee, Opinion | Also tagged brewing, coe, Coffee, consumer, cupping, london | 21 Comments

Thoughts on the last Esmeralda auction

By James Hoffmann | Published: May 24, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Coffee, Green Coffee, Opinion, Origin, Roasting | Also tagged auction, Coffee, costa rica, Daterra, esmeralda, Geisha, roaster, stumptown, varietal | 15 Comments

Off to Costa Rica

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 9, 2007

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 [...]

Posted in Origin | Also tagged costa rica, travel | 2 Comments

Colombia 2007 – Armenia

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 16, 2007

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 [...]

Posted in Coffee | Also tagged armenia, Barista, Colombia, cupping, Green Coffee, growing coffee, processing, wet process | 4 Comments

Off to Colombia tomorrow

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 10, 2007

Really looking forward to it. Will try and post from there – depending on connection of course. Memory cards emptied, camera batteries charged and a few barista bits and pieces packed.
Hopefully gonna get to a few farms, and I think it is harvest time so lots of delicious cherries for me. (I [...]

Posted in Origin | Also tagged Colombia | 8 Comments

Independent branding of microlots – Aida Batlle and “Los Luchadores”

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 13, 2007

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”, [...]