Let’s Do Something New!
Vietnam Lotus SHG Welcome to July and the chance to do something different with your coffee of the month. After Brazil, which country produces the most coffee in the world?
Entries by Lani
From Panama with Taste
Panama Boquete Boquete is nowhere near the Panama Canal: it’s high in the mountains, not too far from Costa Rica. It need not be: it’s a fine destination for hanging bridge lovers; coffee drinkers; foodies; volcano visitors; music, arts, and crafts enthusiasts; and those looking for a good place to retire. Boquete hosts the 50-year-old […]
Premium Coffee from Peru
Cusco Choice Organic Living high up in the Andes jungle region at 3,000 – 3,500 feet above sea level, 296 ranchers – 39 of whom are women – grow premium beans for the coffee and cocoa worlds.
Highland Coffee from the Nile-Congo Divide
Honey Process Burundi The story of this coffee is not clever or deeply historic, but it’s riveting. Kayenza Province is situated in northeast Burundi, near the southern border with Rwanda, and contains the source waters of the Nile River. The 1893-meter altitude, volcanic soil, and relative availability of water produce an exotic high-altitude coffee you’ll […]
Rainy Season Coffee
Monsooned Malabar Get ready for an outstanding coffee from a country you might not have expected, grown in conditions you’d surely have thought awful – and yet, it’s a coffee tasters treasure. These beans come all the way from the Malabar region of India’s southwest coast.
Among the Hardwood Trees
Brazil Ipê Natural Coffee from Brazil is so versatile: it can root a delicious blend, take on spirit-cooling, and stand on its own.
A Goatherd and a Holy Man Gave Us Coffee
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe It’s widely believed that coffee drinking began between 900 and 1,000 AD in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. The story goes like this.
