Origins
What Does a Coffee Importer Actually Risk?
A green coffee importer absorbs carrying cost and price risk before any roaster says yes to a lot. What that risk actually costs, in one real decision.
The Inheritance Journal
Coffee Guides and Origin Stories
Brewing guides with real numbers, the stories behind the farms we buy from, and plain answers to the questions we actually get asked.
221 articles, written and roasted in Pensacola.
Start here
Four articles that answer most of the questions we hear at the roastery.
Roasting
What Is Light Roast Coffee?
A light roast comes off the roaster just after first crack, and it is not stronger: a 2024 study measured 134 to 165 mg of caffeine at every roast level.
Brewing
What Is the Coffee to Water Ratio?
The three ratios we start from at Inheritance, why drip runs stronger than pour over, and what to change first when the cup tastes sour, bitter or thin.
Taste
What Do Coffee Tasting Notes Mean?
A tasting note is not an ingredient list. It is a set of words a roaster picked after tasting the coffee, drawn from a vocabulary somebody wrote down in advance, and i...
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.
Brewing & Gear
Ratios, grind, water, and honest notes on the brewers and machines we use.
What Is Crema on Espresso?
Crema is carbon dioxide trapped under pressure by a shot's own oils. It tracks freshness and roast level, not how good the coffee is.
How to Grind Coffee Beans
Grind size has to match the brewer: too coarse tastes thin, too fine turns bitter. Here's the right size for each method, and why we grind every retail bag ourselves, ...
Which Bodum French Presses Are Being Recalled?
Bodum USA is recalling about 5.9 million glass-carafe French presses sold since 1974, after 70 reports of carafes breaking in use, 48 of them with burns.
Does Grind Size Matter More Than Grind Consistency?
Grind size isn't the variable that predicts taste. The spread around it is, and only a burr grinder's fixed gap can hold that spread steady.
Origins & Sourcing
Countries, varieties, processing, and how green coffee gets to Pensacola.
What Does a Coffee Importer Actually Risk?
A green coffee importer absorbs carrying cost and price risk before any roaster says yes to a lot. What that risk actually costs, in one real decision.
How Much Coffee Will Guatemala Export in 2026-27?
Anacafé cut Guatemala's 2026-27 coffee export forecast from 4.2 million to 3.8 million quintals on El Niño, after 2025-26 exports rose 15% to 4.28 million quintals and...
How Much Coffee Did Brazil Export in October 2026?
Brazil exported a record 287,300 metric tons of green coffee in October 2026, 4.79 million bags and 23.3% more than a year earlier, while the average export price fell...
What Is a Green Coffee Offer Sheet?
A green coffee offer sheet lists lots, scores, and prices up for sale. What saying yes to a line actually commits a buyer to, and why we still cup every sample before ...
Taste & Culture
Acidity, body, tasting notes, cupping scores, and coffee on the Gulf Coast.
What Does Malic Acid Taste Like in Coffee?
Citric acid flashes and fades. Malic acid, the slower acid altitude builds into high-grown lots like Kenya Kiambu, coats the tongue and lingers for up to thirty seconds.
What Is a Clean Cup in Coffee?
A clean cup has nothing to do with how sanitary the kitchen is. It's what's left after quakers, broken beans, and fermentation faults get caught before the roast.
Are Americans Adding More Calories to Their Coffee?
A Tufts study of federal survey data found the calories Americans add to coffee rose from 43 to 60 a day between 2003 and 2018, with nondairy creamer behind most of th...
Who Won the 2026 World Barista Championship?
Pan Wei, competing for China, won the 2026 World Barista Championship at World of Coffee Panama on 25 October, World Coffee Championships announced. Shing Win of Malay...
Roasting
Roast levels explained, and practical guides for people starting to roast.
Is Coffee Roasting a Profitable Business?
A coffee roasting business is profitable past a volume threshold, not before it. Here is the real math: what it costs, what the margin actually is, and who should wait.
Who Is Buying Maxwell House?
Kraft Heinz is selling its North American coffee brands, from Maxwell House to Tassimo, to One Rock Capital Partners in a $650 million deal it expects to close in mid-...
Can AI Detect Defects in Green Coffee?
Researchers in Mexico built a prototype that photographs green coffee beans on both sides, and it found defects more reliably than single-side imaging.
Why Is Nestlé Building a Coffee Factory in Thailand?
Nestlé has started building a 23 billion baht NESCAFÉ plant in Samut Prakan, approved by Thailand's Board of Investment in July. The figures, the reasons given, and wh...
Running a Coffee Program
Menu pricing, bar workflow, equipment care, and serving coffee at events.
How to Start a Mobile Coffee Business
A mobile coffee business is really three businesses: a cart, a trailer, and a truck. How the choice between them changes your cost, parking, and ceiling.
What Should Be in a Coffee Cart Business Plan?
What should be in a coffee cart business plan? Our own cart's data on throughput, power, and footprint, plus the budget line most plans skip entirely.
How to Start a Coffee Cart Business
Starting a mobile coffee cart means managing power, permits, and bookings as much as espresso. What a Pensacola roaster learned the hard way at an event.
How Many People Does a 100-Cup Coffee Urn Serve?
A "100-cup" urn is rated in old 5-ounce cups, not the cup on your table. Here's the real math for a church, hotel, office or restaurant urn.
Church Coffee
Hospitality teams, budgets, pricing, and when a church coffee shop makes sense.
How Much Coffee Does a Church Need for Easter or Christmas Services?
Plan on one and a half times your normal Sunday batch for Easter or Christmas, not double or triple, and know why a flat multiplier breaks down for a short sunrise or ...
Why Does a Coffee Roaster Consult on Church Coffee Shops?
Inheritance stays open two ways: growing wholesale accounts, or getting paid to help a church decide whether to build a coffee program at all. Neither funds the other ...
What Kind of Coffee Shop Does a Church Need?
Church coffee programs usually fall into one of three distinct shapes. Here is how to tell which one is yours, and why it matters before you spend anything.
Can a Church Sell Its Own Coffee Without Opening a Shop?
A church can put its own name on a bag of coffee and sell it to the congregation without building a coffee shop. Here's how private label and sticker-label coffee work...
