Taste
What Is a Coffee Cupping Score?
A cup score is the arithmetic total of a scorecard, and the SCA replaced its scorecard in 2024. Here is what the number is actually measured against, and what our own ...
Learn
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
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 Natural Process Coffee?
Natural process names an operation performed at origin. Four naturals on one shelf run from mango and papaya to milk chocolate and roasted almond, which is what the wo...
Origins
What Is Ethiopian Coffee?
The region on an Ethiopian label is a trading habit that outlived its system. Four specifications decide the cup instead, and a good listing publishes all of them.
Origins
What Is Kenyan Coffee?
Kenya's grading letters measure the bean, not the cup. Here is how the country description holds up against one bag we actually bought, published notes and all.
Origins
What Is Brazilian Coffee?
Brazil grows more coffee than anyone else, which is why the word on the bag spans a wider range of quality than any other origin. Two reputations, both honestly report...
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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 ...
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What Is El Salvador Coffee?
El Salvador built its name on washed Bourbon. What the country plants and dries now has moved further than the guides describing it, and our own lot is the proof.
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What Is Colombian Coffee?
Colombian coffee is arabica grown across roughly twenty departments on three Andean ranges. What Supremo and Excelso actually mean, how the cup shifts by region, and w...
Origins
Ethiopia Birbirsa Coffee: Bright, Fruity Light Roast Guide
Ethiopia Birbirsa is a natural process light roast grown near 2100 meters: granola, mango, orange. Brew it on a V60 or Chemex at 1:15 to 1:16.
Origins
Ethiopia Gerba Dogo: Guji Coffee Guide and Brewing Tips
Ethiopia Gerba Dogo comes from smallholders in the Guji zone: floral, stone fruit, clean finish. Brew it on a V60 or Chemex in about three minutes.
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.
Roasting
Inheritance Coffee Lab & Co-Roasting: Grow Your Brand
The Inheritance Coffee Lab membership gives new roasters roasting time, roast profile help, sourcing guidance and events without buying a roastery.
