JULY SUBSCRIPTIONHey!Hope you are doing really well.Faber Mulcue, ColombiaThis coffee brings us full circle. We offered Faber Mulcue early in our subscription last year. It is a wonderful feeling to return to buy from the same coffee producers each year. I think of it somewhat like wine through its vintages. I get to feel the sense of a coffee more fully, as well as gain a greater understanding of the producer's processing style.We purchase most of our small lot Colombian coffees from Caravela — an importer in Australia, as well as an exporter in Colombia. They are a vertically integrated company with one of the most comprehensive understandings of the Colombian coffee market. So, as an exporter, they have been...
JUNE SUBSCRIPTIONKibingo, BurundiThis month I wanted to bring it back to the core of how we buy coffees.We want to buy coffees that are representations of where they were grown, the variety of the plant itself, and the general expression that may be unique to those attributes.In most cases, we can profile a coffee based off the country or region the coffee plant was grown in. We can do this even more easily with the knowledge that coffee varieties were first grown and cultivated during periods of colonist rule and similar events. This usually means a specific variety was brought into each country, making a flavour landmark along a timeline. Fun Fact: In some cases it was even travellers bearing...
MAY SUBSCRIPTIONJaime Alvarez — ColombiaWe have a pretty different coffee for you this month. It is a fresh release and won't be around long. Each year we decide to buy a coffee that is more experimental in its processing. The main reason for this is to plunge into a different spectrum of flavour, but also to see a wildly differing coffee in our roaster and how it reacts to heat inputs.We find that processing can take over the inherent varietal/terroir flavour profile and steer the coffee toward a different category of flavours. This leads the coffee away from classically standard quality attributes. Whether this is good or bad, it is for you as the drinker to decide. It is a...
APRIL SUBSCRIPTIONMamani Family — BoliviaFor this month's subscription, I wanted to showcase the Mamani family's coffee. It is a coffee that is produced by a family that works so hard to build up the coffee growers around them. The Bolivian geography is perfect for coffee growing, with a great altitude and also a very temperate climate for slow maturation of coffee cherries. The history of this region is not steeped in growing quality coffee however, it is a region previously used for the Bolivian drug trade via the farming of poppies.The switch to growing coffee is more than just an ethical move; it has also meant healthier farmland too, as the poppy is very demanding and strips the land. More...
