Traveling With Purpose
By Tracy Ging, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, S&D Coffee and Tea Specialty pioneers broke new ground when they began traveling to origin. What once was a nameless and faceless commodity came alive with stories, photos, and relationships. Our sense of taste changed. Places, faces, pride, and familiarity now contribute to our definition of great coffee. Travel …
Salzburg Café Diaries: Searching for the “Coffee” in Coffeehouse
By Shauna Alexander Mohr, Consultant In June, just after the World 2012 Barista Championships concluded in Vienna, my family traveled to Salzburg. Intentionally, I didn’t ask around in advance about good cafés or roasters. Instead, I wanted Austria’s grand coffeehouse tradition to reveal itself spontaneously. This approach had worked for me a few years ago …
Don’t Wave Your Stink Fist: Some Tips on Being a Coffee Traveler
By Craig Holt, Founder, Atlas Coffee Importers Coffee is such a great gig. It allows many of us the opportunity to visit a broad variety of cultures in some of the world’s most beautiful places. Having been given such an opportunity, I think we as coffee travelers need to go out of our way to …
What I Learned From Walking: South Sudan, Cultural Sensitivity, and the Search for Wild Coffea arabica
By Emma Sage, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America Disclaimer: I went to Africa with no idea what to expect. I could not imagine the right way to ready myself for my trip with World Coffee Research (WCR) to South Sudan. In the end, I prepared only in the most silly and superficial ways. …
Korea’s Exploding Interest in Specialty Coffee
By Kyonghee Shin, Freelance Writer, Apprentice Roaster at Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters In 2007, a serial-drama titled Coffee Prince hit Korean television screens; with 20 percent of Korean households tuning in weekly. The main character was a girl who pretends to be a guy in order to be hired as a barista at a café …
Exploring Guatemala with Max Quirin
An Interview by Lily Kubota How did you end up working in coffee? I started pushing the big wooden forks for turning over the thin coffee layer on the patio at the coffee mill by the family house in Coban ever since I can remember, maybe being three years old. I always spent most of …
Guatemala Head Bleed: Some More Tips on Being a Coffee Traveler
By Craig Holt, Founder, Atlas Coffee Importers The first installment of this series about being a good coffee traveler touched on cultural issues. I explored the value of teaching yourself about more than just the coffee culture of the places you visit, and discussed the importance of not greeting people with your stink fist. I …
Being There: A Sensory Diary of a Trip to Brazil
By Christopher Schooley, Coffee Design & Experience Coordinator, SCAA, and Lily Kubota, Content & Communications Manager, SCAA Traveling to a coffee producing country is an experience like no other. Seeing coffee production first-hand and learning about coffee farming and processing are essential to understanding the supply chain and being able to communicate about our coffees …
90+ Profiles: Getting to Know Francisca and Oscar Chacon
Who are you and what do you do in coffee? My name is Oscar Chacon. My wife Francisca and I have spent our entire lives producing coffee, and we have recently built and installed a small plant at our farm in order to process coffee ourselves. We must confess that at the beginning we believed …
Portfolio | Issue No. 5 | Business
As the demand for specialty coffee grows, so do the needs of our many coffee industry customers. To meet your growing needs, Hartley Transportation is committed to becoming the most knowledgeable and reliable transportation service provider to the coffee trade. With decades of experience in green coffee bean and processed coffee transportation, Hartley Transportation continues …
Portfolio | Issue No. 5 | Event
The MANE, Mid Atlantic Northeast Coffee Conference, is a weekend long education based coffee event for baristas, roasters and industry professionals. This year we have built an exciting, jam packed schedule of presentations, lectures, hands on workshops and competitions. Registration required. For all the details and to register please visit us at www.manecoffee.com.
SCAA Becomes Member of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE)
SCAA Moves Closer to Compliance with ICE/NCCA Accreditation Standards The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is pleased to report that the organization has become a member of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), the leading Credentialing organization and the parent company of the NCCA, which is the leading authority for accreditation of providers of …