Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #49. The Community Agroecology Network (CAN) seeks to to link farming communities in Latin America to consumers in the [...]
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Bob-o-link Coffee from Brazil: two crop years, three roasters, and an interesting backstory.
In recognition of National Pollinator Week, another review of a coffee with a great backstory.
Café Chocó Andes is not just coffee — but a multi-layered conservation, education, and social welfare cooperative project.
For Arbor Day, a review of the coffees available from the Arbor Day Foundation.
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #41. Starbucks Organic Shade Grown Mexico is produced by around 900 small farmers on 3200 ha of land in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas [1]. Many of the…
Caribou’s 100% Rainforest Alliance certified Colombian offering is a tasty, sustainable selection.
A review of Terroir’s Colombia El Descanso, a farm that may be starting to plant the castillo variety.
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #32. In our background post on El Salvador, one of the coffees we reviewed was Counter Culture’s Finca Mauritania, from the slopes of the Ilamantepec (Santa Ana) volcano. The…
Counter Culture’s Holiday Blend used a roast style called vienna mélange, mixing and blending different roasts of the same bean — from Zaragoza, Mexico.
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #30. Daterra Estate — Brazil. Sampled from three roasters: Rowster Coffee, Terroir Coffee Company, and Sweetwater Organic Coffees. In a previous post, I discussed coffee growing in the cerrado…
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #29. Starbucks Black Apron Exclusive: Organic Lomas Al Rio (Costa Rica). This review is a tad out of the ordinary for two reasons. First, I don’t buy coffee from…
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #28. It’s taken too long to get around to reviewing coffee from one of the most well-known coffee farms in the world that is marketed as sustainable, Panama’s Carmen…
Caribou Coffee’s latest Roastmaster Reserve is Panama Maunier, from Panama’s Boquette region in Chirqui province.
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #26. I first read about Guatemala’s Finca Vista Hermosa in Roast Magazine, in a series written by Edwin Martinez, Diary of a Grower. FVH is the Martinez family farm,…
