Origins
What Is a Coffee Landrace?
A landrace isn't wild coffee and it isn't a named variety like SL-28. It's a crop population farmers keep reselecting without a formal breeding program, and it's what ...
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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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Origins
What Is a Coffee Varietal?
A varietal is the kind of coffee plant the seed came from. The harder question is what that name is standing in for, because the same line on a bag can hold a named se...
Origins
Ethiopia Yabitu Koba: Heirloom Coffee with Peachy Notes
Ethiopia Yabitu Koba is a natural process heirloom lot from a smallholder collective: cooked peach, apricot, dates. Brew at 1:15 to keep the fruit.
Origins
What Is Heirloom Coffee?
Heirloom coffee refers to Ethiopia's thousands of native wild varieties. What the term really means, how heirloom cups taste, and whether it signals quality.
