Research over the years has repeatedly confirmed that drinking coffee results in a whole host of health benefits from reduced incidence of type II diabetes to Parkinson’s Disease to Alzheimer’s to various types of cancer. Coffee drinkers generally live longer. Although many people just drink coffee for the stimulant effect of the caffeine, it is […]

The price of unroasted coffee beans has running at historically high levels. This has not affected your own cup of coffee so much because of the usually high markup due to roasting, as well as profits for retail outlets and coffee houses. On the other hand it has been a boon for coffee growers in […]

In the runup to the 2024 US presidential election one of the topics repeated over and over was that of tariffs on things imported into the USA. Trump talked about putting tariffs on virtually everything and Harris supported selective tariffs to protect American industry and national security. Where does coffee fall in this argument? Is […]

You can buy great coffee, store it correctly, roast to perfection and still end up with a cup of coffee that is not to your liking. How is that? It has to do with the quality of the water that you use and how you filter your coffee. Using bottled or filtered water will generally […]

There are many excellent coffees in the world but the region where one can find universally excellent coffee in the greatest quantities is in the West of Colombia in the Paisa region of largely rural Colombia. This region is the coffee triangle but is also called the coffee growing axis (Eje Cafetero in Spanish). The […]