story behind the cup
The Business Behind Specialty: Micro Festival El Salvador Day 2
The final day of Micro Coffee Festival El Salvador started bright and early – perhaps a little too bright for those who’d been enjoying …
Why a Salvadoran Mill Believes in Relationship Coffee
Today, Andres Salaverria is the fifth generation of his family to work in coffee. He’s also led the way in experimental processing, invested in …
How to Choose the Best Shade System for Your Coffee Farm
Shade trees have numerous benefits: they’re associated with better cup profiles as they allow the coffee to ripen slower, they may provide additional income …
Why Sustainability Must Be Community-Oriented and Community-Led
There are many areas in which Ixil Guatemalans want to see progress: education, health, food sovereignty, economic diversification, and coffee leaf rust (la roya) …
Coffee Careers: 7 Rules to Barista Like a Boss
We all want to be the best barista possible. The question is, how do we do that? Is it a case of the longer …
Pressure Profiling: The Key to Perfect Extraction
Specialty coffee is an innovative industry. It seems like there’s a new way to improve our coffee every year—if not every month! Recently, the …
Kalita Wave: The Story & Brewing Guide
Kalita Who? The Wave is another offering from Kalita Co., the family-owned Japanese company which has been making coffee equipment since the 1950s. The …
Hydrosols: How to Make Brewing Water as Aromatic as Perfume
Imagine this for a moment: Someone hands you a glass of clear water. You lift it to take a sip, but as your nose …
The History of Croatian Coffee & Its Journey to Specialty
Croatians love their coffee. Forget a café on every corner—here, entire streets are lined with café bars. Coffee-drinkers fill the bars, looking—and no doubt …
How to Introduce Customers to Third Wave Coffee
With third wave coffee shops everywhere, specialty coffee websites, specialty coffee associations, World Championships, and public cuppings, it’s easy to become insulated in third …
