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Notes from the roastery: what we buy, how we roast it, and what we have learned building coffee programs on the Gulf Coast.

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Roasting

Why Is Decaf Coffee Harder to Roast?

Decaf is harder to roast because the seed was processed a second time before it reached you, and that pass took density and structure out of it. Royal Coffee and Sweet...

Origins

How Is Decaf Coffee Made?

Four commercial methods remove caffeine from green coffee, and they differ only in what does the pulling. Here is what each one does, and the residual limit the field ...

Origins

What Is Peruvian Coffee?

Peru is planted to older trees than almost anywhere else, and that single fact runs through everything: the yields, the rust, the organic certification, and the price ...

Taste

What Is Low Acid Coffee?

Low acid coffee describes how a cup tastes, not a lower pH. Measured brewed coffee lands between pH 4.85 and 5.13, so here is what actually moves acidity.