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Transparent coffee roasting practices explained: learn how roast profiles, direct trade sourcing, and fermentation shape the cup you brew...
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Papayo: the cultivar the lot is named for
Most coffees are named for a place. This one is named for a plant — a rare Colombian cultivar with outsized beans, grown on small plots a...
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Mosto: the sourdough starter behind Nativo Nogales
Most coffee fermentation is either left to chance or kick-started with something borrowed. Finca Los Nogales does neither — it saves the ...
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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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The origin your shelf forgot
Uganda grows heritage coffee at serious altitude — and one man on Mt. Elgon is proving it. Plus the cleanest experiment we sell: the same...