The Journal

Fermentation, roasted.

Fermentation as craft. Roasting as calibration. Notes from producer to cup.

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Reforest Project growers gathered outside a farm building in Caldas, ColombiaProducers

Named after a tree

Our Guamo lot isn't named for a village or a farm. It's named for a shade tree — and for a project betting that planting more of them is ...

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A waterfall falling through the green slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern UgandaProducers

The origin your shelf forgot

Uganda grows heritage coffee at serious altitude — and one man on Mt. Elgon is proving it. Plus what changes when you ferment the same ch...

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Aerial view of El Vergel Estate in Fresno, Tolima — blue-roofed processing sheds surrounded by forest and coffee plotsProducers

Colombia's first koji farm

How the Bayter family turned a failed avocado farm in Tolima into a fermentation frontier — and grew the rare Papayo lot behind our Reserve.

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Taste the Difference

Theory meets cup. Every article on this journal points back to coffees you can try at home.

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