A single glance at Monsooned Malabar coffee beans tells you they are unique. Before roasting, they are creamy yellow to yellowy cream instead of the usual pale-to-medium green. Their average size is another giveaway: bigger. These Catimor Arabica beans have been painstakingly handled to recreate a 19th-century accident.
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In the Heat of August
/by LaniGive cold-brewed coffee a try! Make a jarful this evening and enjoy it the morning.
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Seasonal Cause and Effect
/by LaniA single glance at Monsooned Malabar coffee beans tells you they are unique. Before roasting, they are creamy yellow to yellowy cream instead of the usual pale-to-medium green. Their average size is another giveaway: bigger. These Catimor Arabica beans have been painstakingly handled to recreate a 19th-century accident.
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Coffee and Bottles to Outdoor Apparel
/by LaniCoalatree makes outdoor clothing from spent coffee grounds and plastic bottles. They’re a smallish company in Utah that sells directly to the consumer – that’s their fundamental business model – but also sells to Europe and through a few international chain stores.
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Elder Brothers
/by LaniThe Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco, and Kankuamo believe that the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia is the beating heart of the world: what happens there happens everywhere. They are the Elder Brothers.
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Creative Family; Fine Creations
/by LaniPatrick Roehrman makes outstanding – and very sharp – knives. He also drinks quantities of coffee, preferring java from Indonesia but perfectly willing to drink strong, quality brew.
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Cooling It
/by LaniSweet Vanilla Cooled
For centuries people first had to roast their morning drink – in a pan over open flame – before grinding and brewing. Read more
Underdog to Champion
/by LaniWhile neighbors Nicaragua and Guatemala have long occupied peaks of success in the coffee industry, Honduras has only recently earned recognition for the quality of its coffee.
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Christmas Customs from Colombia
/by LaniWhat would you put in a letter to Niño Jesús?
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Speak Their Names
/by LaniIn November of each year, Holler Roast features an organic single-source dark Brazil coffee bean, Darkhorse 25, in honor and often in memory of military veterans.
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Will Not Give Up
/by LaniOne dynamo can turn defeat into success – in her community, and in the economy of her entire country.
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