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The Guide to “City” Roast Levels. The terms City, Full City, French Roast, etc. have been long used in the coffee domain to refer to roast degrees, but they have...

Shade Grown Coffee In our last Take2 installment we discussed the basic ins and outs of growing coffee in high altitude conditions. This week we provide a brief overview of...

High Altitude Growing. As mentioned last week, growing coffee in the cooler air of tropical mountain ranges creates valuable stress in coffee plants. The cooler air causes each plant to...

Photo courtesy of Delighten Dee / Unsplash Arabica vs. Robusta Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora — known to us, simply, as arabica and robusta. What’s the difference between arabica and robusta? What...

Photo courtesy of Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A few days ago, we were alerted to a small shipment of an African coffee that just arrived. Before we even received...

Light or Dark? By now, it’s well known that we (and many in this industry) are self-admitted light roast coffee snobs. But! Just because light roast coffees tend to highlight...