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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...

Cold Brewed Coffee. I remember falling in love with my first cold coffee drink decades ago while on a business trip to Tokyo — long before anyone was selling packaged...

What the heck is Geisha? In 2004, the Peterson family of Hacienda la Esmeralda in Boquete, Panama, shocked the coffee world by selling one pound of their green coffee for...

What’s the deal with cupping scores? Cupping coffee is the process by which coffee is evaluated and scored based on (usually) 10 qualitative categories that rank coffee on a scale...