For almost 10 years, I served as a board member for the Coffee Quality Institute, a non-profit with a mission to “improve the quality of coffee and the lives of...
Why I roast the way I do: a tribute to Peets. There’s a lot of opinions out there that say only light roasts express the pure nature and origin interest...
Fifteen years ago, I travelled to the Kilimanjaro region of Northern Tanzania to see the work done by smallholder farmers producing coffee on the slopes of Africa’s highest mountain. They...
In the world of coffee, there is only one non-profit dedicated exclusively to coffee and that is the Coffee Quality Institute. Its mission is to improve the quality of coffee...
There used to be this misperception that if a coffee was decaffeinated, it didn’t matter what beans were used, because they weren’t “real” coffee drinkers. I take a completely different...