Article Summary: Royal Coffee celebrates 30 years importing from Finca La Amistad, Costa Rica’s pioneering organic, shade-grown farm run by Roberto Montero near the Panama border. Fully powered by hydroelectric energy and built on closed-loop composting, the 250-hectare farm is the only Bird...
Crown Jewel Year in Review 2024 has been a complicated year by many metrics, but in spite of challenges from logistics to market swings and more, we are thrilled and grateful for the continued success of our Crown Jewel program. These little boxes of coffee have seen an explosion in potential this...
Royal Coffee x Grounds for Health Since 2006, Royal Coffee has proudly supported Grounds for Health, an extraordinary nonprofit that has partnered with coffee cooperatives and local health organizations to create sustainable cervical cancer prevention programs in Latin America and Africa. We’re...
A Roaster's Guide to Coffee Seasons The idea that a particular crop, in our case coffee, is available and fresh for a portion of the year – is now long-ingrained in specialty coffee conversations. Like all other fruit, coffee berries have a finite shelf life. Unlike many other drupes, we covet...
By Lauren Cropper, Sales Associate & Certification Specialist Green Coffee Field Report Peruvian coffee is a cornerstone bean that fulfills an important washed mild profile. For our team, it had been at least ten years since the last visit. At the end of July, VP of Trading Activity, Alex...
Unroasted, green coffee is an agricultural commodity, and specialty coffee buyers typically treat specialty quality coffee as a seasonal product with a finite shelf life. While opinions may differ on best practices, there are a few guiding principles to keep in mind when considering your green...
22 Lb Crown Jewel Summer Update Hey there, coffee buyers! Since our last update, lots of coffees have been moving, and we’re very excited about what’s in store and on the way. Here’s an update on upcoming Crown Jewels to keep your eyes on... Upcoming Releases: We've been anxiously awaiting...
I can’t tell you how relieved I am to be gazing into a future flush with fresh coffee arrivals. I’ve been busy elbowing my way onto cupping tables and bidding on coffees in a bit of a strategy change for the Crown Jewel program. I wanted to let you know specifically about our Ethiopia shipping...
If your newsfeed is (like mine) bent by algorithm towards coffee articles, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in reporting about the safety of decaffeinated coffee recently. This is because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a petition to amend food additive regulations to remove...
Good news is on the horizon, coffee buyers! There are Crown Jewels set to launch all through the month of April, favorites from the Andes topping our list of incoming coffees. While 2023’s austere purchasing led to small quantities of arrivals in the first quarter of this year, I’ve been...
Kigali, April 2023 Ernest Nshimyimana picks me up from the hotel in Kigali just an hour after I arrive. I’ve already driven three and a half hours this morning, starting on the shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda’s western province. Now we’re heading north, and the SUV is extra in the way the kids mean...
Before I can comprehend my surroundings, beyond the sleepless night and unending flight that preceded, suddenly I’m faced with something so familiar and grounding it’s as if I’d fallen from the sky in a million pieces, only to serendipitously reassemble perfectly where I land. 35 coffees, a...
Celebrating Coastal Coffee from Lake Kivu: Chris shares his recent trip to the Coocamu Coop. It’s difficult not to be transported to some kind of other world when visiting Coocamu (pronounced with an emphasis on the 2nd syllable, “coo-CA-mu”). There is a road to the station, but the preferred way...
Despite being geographically minuscule, Burundi commands an outsized presence in specialty coffee sourcing. Its hills provide exceptional climate and elevation for growing, and its most conscientious producers are cultivating, processing, and exporting coffee that rivals the best and brightest...
By Chris Kornman and Charlie Habegger. There’s something very reassuring about landed coffees in season. Last year’s shipments from Rwanda didn’t arrive until late spring of 2022, fully a year after their harvest. This year, the story is different. Of our Oakland-bound coffees from the recent...
