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A simple question: Castillo or Caturra?
Yesterday I had the honor to present the preliminary results of the Colombia Sensory Trial at the 2015 SCAA Symposium. The Colombia Sensory Trial is a cross-sector collaboration with allies in the...
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SCAA Symposium video: “A Simple Question”
Yesterday SCAA Symposium organizers posted a video of my presentation “A Simple Question: Castillo or Caturra?” Watch it in its entirety here. . Photo courtesy of Sprudge.
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Perspectives on the Colombia Sensory Trial
I have been writing here about the Colombia Sensory Trial for more than a year. With presentations of the findings coming up at Re:co Symposium in Sweden and the Nordic Roaster Forum in Denmark, there...
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The first part of the Colombia Sensory Trial featured coffee buyers and quality control experts from some of the most important coffee organizations in the Americas. During two cupping panels at...
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Back-to-School Theme: What (and Where) I Drank This Summer
It’s that time of year again: back-to-school time. Which means it is also time for the annual “What I Did This Summer” essay. As a home roaster in Ecuador with a limited array of locally available...
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Nariño’s Third Wave
Nariño, Colombia, strikes me as a coffee origin that everyone in coffee knows, but very few people in coffee know well. . The road from Linares to Samaniego. . I have had the extraordinary good fortune...
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Apples and Oranges
When the Fair World Project published this comparison of select brands in the U.S. coffee market last year, I was sorely tempted to respond here. To explain publicly what was happening privately: that...
View ArticleThe USBC Origins Project – Day One
Back in Februrary, after watching the USBC Qualifying Event in Kansas City, I committed myself to this, an initiative I called the “USBC Origins Project.” I found myself wanting more info on the...
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14 years ago Michael Sheridan was assigned to me. I was working in the southern Philippines (Mindanao) for CRS, and Michael came in as a Fellow. He’s called that a “lucky break“, and it was for me. We...
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Borderlands 2016 Harvest Hits Stores
Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Sacks coffee beans in the village of La Florida in Colombia’s southern Nariño Department, waiting to be exported. In the past week, lots from the 2016 Borderlands harvest...
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