How Do You Make Turkish Coffee?
There are many ways to make and enjoy coffee and especially healthy organic coffee. One of these is Turkish coffee. What is and how to you make Turkish coffee? Turkish coffee is an entirely different way to make coffee from how it is done in coffee houses in North America and is, basically, how folks make coffee in Turkey. Read on to learn how to make Turkish coffee.
Turkish Coffee
Turkish coffee is a method of preparing coffee common not only in the country of Turkey but across the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, Balkans and into Eastern Europe.
Making Turkish Coffee
Ibrik for Turkish Coffee
Here is the short and sweet approach to making Turkish coffee.
- When making coffee Turkish style grind the coffee beans even finer than you would for making espresso.
- Make Turkish coffee in a small pot with a cup of water
- A small sauce pan will do although Turks use an ibrik (see image)
- Add sugar
- Plain: no sugar
- Little sugar: add half a level teaspoon to the coffee
- Medium: add a level teaspoon to the coffee
- A lot of sugar: add two level teaspoons to the coffee
- Bring the water with sugar to a boil and remove from heat
- Add coffee and stir until coffee sinks
- Some add a pod of cardamom as well (optional)
- Heat again slowly until coffee boils and foam appears on the top
- So not stir as this disturbs the foam
- Do not boil too long as prolonged boiling gives the coffee a burnt taste
- Remove from heat briefly and then heat again
- Repeat one more time
- Pour coffee directly from the ibrik or your sauce pan into demitasse cups similar to what you would use for espresso
- Ideal Turkish coffee has a lot of thick foam (think of Cuban coffee) and the person who gets the cup with the most foam has the best coffee.
History of Turkish Coffee
Coffee was discovered and used as a drink in the middle of the 14th century. It was drunk in Ethiopia and then on the Arabian Peninsula. In the 16th century the Ottoman Empire ruled Turkey and much of the Middle East including the Arabian Peninsula. The governor of Yemen brought coffee with him on his return to Istanbul. The Turkish coffee method originated in the Ottoman Palace. Beans were roasted over a fire, finely ground and cooked slowly in water on the ashes of the fire. This method of making coffee spread along with the popularity of coffee across all of the Ottoman Empire. As the size and influence of the Ottoman Empire waned aspects of its culture remained including the making of Turkish coffee. How to make Turkish coffee varies across the length and breadth of the old empire but the recipe above is pretty close to how coffee is made and enjoyed from Morocco to Iraq and Yemen to Bucharest.
Ottoman Empire
Wholesale Organic Coffee
There are many small coffee plantations that grow and process excellent organic coffee. But the vast majority of these growers are dependent on exporters to get their product to an international market. If you want great coffee you want healthy organic coffee. And if you want coffee in bulk you need wholesale organic coffee from places like the coffee growing axis of Colombia. Grow good certified organic coffee is a job all by itself. Exporting coffee requires an entirely different skill set which is why if you want wholesale organic coffee you need to deal with a handful of coffee exporters in the country where you are dealing.
Why Do We Pick Colombia?
Colombia is a major producer of high quality Arabica coffee. Many consider Colombian coffee brands to be among the best in the world. The problem with getting coffee out of Colombia is that shipments need to be checked and vetted so that the exporter is not hiding drugs in the shipment. Colombia is in the final stages of negotiating the end to a six decade long civil war. Rebel have financed their operations in part by selling cocaine. What began as a fight for the rights of small farmers has largely turned into paramilitary groups of drug lords and mini drug lords and kidnappers hiding out in the jungle with little chance of reintegrating into society. The government has gotten the rebellion out of the cities but the surviving drug lords in the jungle still try to ship their product out of the country by various means. But, despite the need for a professional export service and the work involved therein we think that Colombian coffee is worth the effort. Colombian organic coffee is especially worth the effort!
Green Beans or Roasted
Roasters in the USA and Europe will want green coffee beans. Retailers may simply prefer to buy coffee roasted close to the source and sent via air freight to their city. Green beans are shipped by sea, usually in shipping container lots. Because roasted whole coffee beans have a six month shelf life it works to send via air freight. Usually it takes 4 to 6 weeks from placing an order for freshly roasted and packed organic Colombian coffee to arrive at your door. With green beans the time frame is similar but you need to add time for shipping which can be up to three weeks for Europe or Japan versus a week or less for the Southern USA.
USDA Certification
When you buy coffee at a store you will look for USDA certification on the bag. What do you do when you buy shipping containers of wholesale organic coffee? The exporter must provide, from growers, organic supplier certificates. These are typically provided by an entity such as Bio Latina which certifies on behalf of the USDA across much of Latin America. USDA certification guarantees that the product has been grown, processed, stored and shipped according to organic processes. If you are interested in wholesale organic coffee from Colombia please feel free to contact us today.
Why Do You Drink Coffee?
Why do you drink coffee? You might respond like the mountain climber intent on climbing a jagged peak, because it is there. You might also lecture for an hour or so about the health benefits of drinking coffee. But, why do you drink coffee? Is it the taste or aroma? Is it the morning wakeup effect or because you need a cup to make it through a long afternoon at work? Maybe it is a genetic predisposition as we wrote about in our article, Genetic Desire for Coffee. Here are a few more thoughts on the subject of why one might like to drink coffee.
Warm Up, Wake Up and Relax a Bit on a Cold Night
Irish coffee is a good reason to drink coffee. This version of the brew was invented on a cold Irish night. There was an Irish chef at the airbase where Shannon International Airport now sits. There was a flight from Ireland to New York that had to turn back because of bad weather. The chef greeted the returning travelers with a hot drink of coffee, whiskey, brown sugar, and whipped cream. It became a regular feature at the airport and when people asked what kind of coffee it was they were told that it was Irish coffee (as opposed to one of the Brazilian or Colombian organic coffee brands). An American traveler brought the recipe back to America and it caught on.
Irish Coffee
Here are the ingredients and steps:
- Coffee mug (A glass mug is traditional.)
- Tablespoon
- 4 ounces of hot coffee freshly ground and brewed organic coffee
- 1 ounce of organic, preferably Irish, whiskey
- 2 teaspoonful of brown sugar
- 1 ounce of organic double cream whipped just lightly
- Have everything ready.
- Warm your coffee mug.
- Put the brown sugar into the glass and then add the hot organic coffee.
- Stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Add the whiskey and stir again.
- Add the cream by pouring gently over the back side of the tablespoon so that the whipped cream sits on top of the coffee.
- A little cinnamon and or nutmeg sprinkled on top of the whipped cream are an American addition to this treat and are optional.
A Little Sugar on Top
If you like your coffee as a reason to add sugar to what you drink, consider Cuban coffee. Cuban coffee is strong espresso with a foamy layer of sugar laced with espresso across the top. Make the espresso as you normally would. The put a forth of a cup of brown sugar in a glass mixing bowl and add a tablespoonful of hot espresso. Mix using a whisk until the mixture is foamy. Pour this over each cup of steaming hot espresso and enjoy your Cuban coffee, aka Café Cubano.
For Whatever Reason
Why do you drink coffee? If you sense that it a genetic predilection that makes you start brewing coffee every morning you can still enjoy you coffee black or prepared in any of the innovative ways that people have invented. So enjoy your coffee and remember that coffee does a lot of good things for you besides just waking you up in the morning.
Best Brewed Coffee
The best brewed coffee starts with the best coffee beans, properly stored and ground immediately prior to brewing. The best brewed coffee is free of the many impurities too often found in regular coffee. The best brewed coffee is healthy organic coffee, preferably one of the excellent Colombian organic coffee brands.
Best Brewed Coffee
Old Time Family Gatherings or Coffee for the Two of You at Home
A tried and true means of making coffee for large family gatherings is to put coffee grounds, water, and maybe a cracked egg or two into a very large pot and boil. If you live in the coffee growing regions of Latin America you probably have a wire ring on a handle which holds a cotton bag in which you place ground coffee. Boil water; pour through the suspended ground coffee into a pot or right into the cup. Add sugar or milk to the cup and enjoy. Or you may have a French press or simply a drip coffee maker. Here are a few tips for the best brewed coffee at home.
- Buy freshly roasted coffee beans, preferably organic, and store in a sealed jar in a cool place. Do not store in the refrigerator as you will get condensation on the beans each time you take them out.
- Grind just enough beans for the coffee that you want. Grind finely for espresso, and less so for other brewing methods. If you find that your coffee seems too bitter grind less finely and if it seems weak grind more finely.
- Use bottled or filtered water if you tap water has too much chlorine
- Start with a tablespoonful or two of ground coffee for each six ounces of water and adjust to taste.
- Aim for 200 degree Fahrenheit for brewing coffee. With a French press, for example, boil the water and wait a minute or so before adding coffee and water to the press.
- For a drip system, figure on five minutes and for a French press just two minutes of contact between coffee grounds and water. Espresso takes thirty seconds or less.
- Anyone who wants to try the Eje Cafetero cloth bag approach should grind the coffee very fine. Put the grounds in the bag and set over your coffee pot.
- At sea level, let the boiled water rest for a minute before pouring. In the mountains water boils at less than 212 degrees so just go ahead and pour the just-boiled water over your freshly ground coffee.
The Coffee House Approach
If you think that the best brewed coffee needs a little more take the coffee house approach.
- Americano
- Breve
- Cappucino
- Latte
- Mocha
Americano is espresso cut to half strength with water. When American GI’s discovered espresso in Europe in the aftermath of WWII they preferred coffee like mom made back in Des Moines. The request to dilute the espresso was so common that coffee houses came to refer to diluted espresso as café Americano.
Breve and latte are espresso made with steamed milk in the case of latte and half and half in the case of breve. Café au lait will pass for latte and breve is strong coffee with a lot of milk and cream.
Cappuccino is espresso and hot milk when is then steamed to make foam. Typically cappuccino comes with a dollop of whipped cream on the top.
Mocha is the coffee for chocolate lovers. Order it made with organic coffee house coffee, organic chocolate syrup, and organic milk for triple treat.
The best brewed coffee, traditional at home, or coffee house, starts with the basic steps.
What is Butter Coffee?
Butter coffee, also recently called bulletproof coffee, is currently the rage in some places. Butter coffee is eight ounces of freshly brewed coffee plus a teaspoonful each of unsalted butter and coconut oil. There are variations on the theme but the claim of those who like butter coffee is that it gives you more energy, helps you lose weight and avoids the ingestion of so-called inflammatory sugars. It turns out that butter coffee is not really a new idea. In Ethiopia where coffee was first discovered putting butter in freshly brewed coffee is a custom.
Is Butter Coffee Good, Bad or Indifferent?
We have written at length about the health benefits or both regular and healthy organic coffee. But good health recommendations today include limiting the amount of saturated fats in your diet. When you think of saturated fats think of animal fat and butter! The claim that drinking butter coffee helps you lose weight is not proven. It does make sense that fats and proteins take longer to digest so that we do not feel hungry as soon after butter coffee as we might after black coffee and sugar. Limit yourself to butter coffee instead of black coffee and a greasy sweet roll and you are probably exchanging the butter in the sweet roll for the butter in the coffee and excluding the carbohydrates in the sweet roll. But you are probably also missing out on the B vitamins that are commonly included in and added to wheat flour!
What Is the Proof and Can You Trust What They Say?
We just published an article about a Bogus Green Coffee Extract Claim. A couple of years ago a study was published stating that healthy volunteers who took measured quantities of green coffee extract lost weight. It turns out that the data was fudged and the US researchers who published the study have just retracted it. In addition the company that sponsored the study is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission!
The Federal Trade Commission has levied a fine of $3.5 million on Applied Food Sciences, the company that sponsored the study claiming that green coffee extract resulted in weight loss. Here is a quote from the FTC.
…the study’s lead investigator repeatedly altered the weights and other key measurements of the subjects, changed the length of the trial, and misstated which subjects were taking the placebo or GCA during the trial. When the lead investigator was unable to get the study published, the FTC says that AFS hired researchers Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham at the University of Scranton to rewrite it. Despite receiving conflicting data, Vinson, Burnham, and AFS never verified the authenticity of the information used in the study, according to the complaint.
Despite the study’s flaws, AFS used it to falsely claim that GCA caused consumers to lose 17.7 pounds, 10.5 percent of body weight, and 16 percent of body fat with or without diet and exercise, in 22 weeks, the complaint alleges.
The point of bringing up the green coffee extract fiasco is this. If you like to put butter and or coconut oil in your coffee and skip the cream and sugar go for it. But do not go for the hype about there being specific health benefits to drinking butter coffee or so-called bulletproof coffee without seeing well documented proof. Organic coffee is good for your health. There are lots and lots of well documented studies showing the benefits of coffee and there is a lot of good data showing that organic coffee is free of a large number of contaminants that may be found in regular coffee. Enjoy your coffee but insist on proof before using concoctions like butter coffee as replacements for good dietary advice or medications.
Bogus Green Coffee Extract Claim
We would like to alert our readers to a bogus green coffee extract claim. In 2012 we published an article entitled, Lose Weight with Coffee Bean Extract.
A chemist in Pennsylvania reports that when sixteen volunteers lost weight when they took a gram of green coffee bean extract daily for five months. According to the study report the volunteers were in their twenties and all overweight. These folks did not change their diets or the amount of exercise that they did, or didn’t, engage in. According to researchers there were no ill effects on the volunteers’ blood pressure readings or heart rate. The average weight loss in this study was just over ten pounds.
In 2013 we wrote about organic green coffee extract.
What Joy Is There in Taking a Pill?
Health benefits aside most folks drink coffee because they like the aroma and taste as well the wake up effect. There is a degree of sadness to distilling the benefits of coffee into a pill to be taken once, twice, or three times a day. After all one can buy caffeine pills to stay awake. Truckers and college students have been doing this for years. Our vote is obviously for the hot cup of freshly roasted organic coffee or even the lukewarm coffee in a thermos over popping a pill. There are a lot of folks selling organic green coffee extract. If you do go this route, look to see if they are certified. It is easy to claim to be organic but they need to have the USDA seal to show that their product is organic from start to finish!
Trusting in the researchers we published these articles. OOPS!
Bogus Green Coffee Extract Claim
The Federal Trade Commission has levied a fine of $3.5 million on Applied Food Sciences, the company that sponsored the study claiming that green coffee extract resulted in weight loss. Here is a quote from the FTC.
…the study’s lead investigator repeatedly altered the weights and other key measurements of the subjects, changed the length of the trial, and misstated which subjects were taking the placebo or GCA during the trial. When the lead investigator was unable to get the study published, the FTC says that AFS hired researchers Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham at the University of Scranton to rewrite it. Despite receiving conflicting data, Vinson, Burnham, and AFS never verified the authenticity of the information used in the study, according to the complaint.
Despite the study’s flaws, AFS used it to falsely claim that GCA caused consumers to lose 17.7 pounds, 10.5 percent of body weight, and 16 percent of body fat with or without diet and exercise, in 22 weeks, the complaint alleges.
The point of all this is that researchers in India fudged the results of their study and no one followed up. This was a bogus green coffee extract claim and should be ignored. If you purchased any green coffee extract for the purpose of losing weight you may want to ask for, or demand, your money back.
Genetic Desire for Coffee
Why do some folks drink coffee and some folks avoid the stuff? There are certainly good reasons to drink healthy organic coffee. We have written repeatedly about the health benefits of coffee including reducing the risk of diabetes, helping avoid cancer and reducing the risk of neurologic diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But the benefits do no explain why some folks are naturally coffee drinkers and some are not. It turns out that there is a genetic desire for coffee that some folks inherit.
Genetic Desire for Coffee
An article published in Molecular Psychiatry, October 7, 2014, reports that there are six different sites in our genes that are associated with levels of coffee consumption. The scientists involved performed what is called a meta-analysis of coffee consumption by more than ninety thousand coffee drinkers. They looked at the correlation between amount of coffee consumed and the presence of absence of specific genes in specific spots on various chromosomes. It turns out that there are six locations for which there is a statistically significant relationship between presence or absence of the gene and amount of coffee consumed. In short there appears to be an inherited or genetic desire for coffee.
But You Still Get to Enjoy Your Coffee
This may sound a little deterministic. In other words do we really have any choice or are our trips to the coffee shop decided for us by our genes? Remember that you like your cup of coffee. So, no matter what makes the experience enjoyable, you get to enjoy your coffee.
And Coffee Is Still Good for You
The study cited adds nothing to the mounting evidence that coffee is good for you. Rather it simply notes that there is a predisposing genetic desire for coffee in some folks. The authors of the study mention the many positive health benefits of drinking coffee but do not link those benefits to the genetic desire for coffee. That was not the purpose of the study. Anyway, the point is that you get to choose and we suggest that you choose coffee, preferably organic.
Choose Coffee and Choose Organic
Coffee is good for you and organic is better. Think of safe organic coffee when you buy.
If you are worried about all of the junk that someone might be putting in your food consider safe organic coffee. USDA organic coffee is certified to be grown according to sustainable growing practices. Coffee used to be grown in the shade and commonly in forested areas. Historically the environment and spacing out the coffee plants took care of much of the problem of insects and plant diseases. However, new coffee strains were introduced which can grow in the full sun. With the use of synthetic fertilizers the grower produces more coffee. He also erodes the soil and leaves synthetic fertilizer residue in the coffee bean. Crowding of plants brings about more plant diseases and pests which growers commonly treat with fungicides and pesticides, which also end up on the coffee bean. Safe organic coffee, on the other hand is grown and certified to be grown without use of pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers. Over one hundred thirty contaminants can be found in a cup of regular coffee. The Australian Food Standards Authority found metals such as aluminum and zinc, pesticide residues, and many other unwelcome substances in commercially available regular coffee. The effects of some of these chemicals are impairment the immune system, liver problems, and even certain kinds of cancer. On the other hand, antioxidants in black organic coffee in easy to find organic coffee brands can help prevent disease.
Why Buy Arabica Coffee
Why buy Arabica coffee? If you are looking for a pick me up, robusta coffee beans contain more caffeine than Arabica beans. And Robusta coffee futures are sitting at around $1.10 a pound while Arabica futures are more than $2 a pound for lowest quality Arabica beans. So why buy Arabica coffee? People buy Arabica coffee because it tastes better and has a better aroma. Arabica is higher quality coffee than Robusta. Now the question is where do you get your Arabica coffee?
Colombian Organic Coffee
We are, by the way, an organic coffee site. The best coffee is Arabica and the best Arabica is organic from Colombia. Here is a little info about Brands of Organic Coffee from Colombia. Colombia produces the second largest amount of Arabica coffee in the world, second only to Brazil. Brazil is experiencing a drought and expected to see decreased production. Colombia has recovered from the effects of the 2008 el Niño and expects to see a record harvest. Colombia’s production is forecast up 1.0 million bags to 12.0 million on higher yields. With the increase in overall coffee production in Colombia one can expect an increase in organic production as well. Wholesale organic green coffee from Colombia is some of the best Arabica coffee in the world.
Wholesale Organic Arabica Coffee
Colombian coffee is the best Arabica coffee in the world. There are several outstanding Colombian organic coffee brands. Here is a short list of folks in the Cafetero who can provide organic wholesale coffee in quantity.
Volcan
Linea Roja
Sostenible
Origen
Oma
Frailes
Juan Valdez
Café Madrid
Fincas Aliadas
Tolima
Eco Bio Colombia
Asprounion
Mountain View Coffee
Café Pitayo
Why Colombia?
Colombia ranks behind the larger country of Brazil in coffee but Colombia is the best producer of high quality Arabica coffee. To get organic wholesale coffee from Colombia you need to deal with a professional exporter because of issues unique to Colombia, namely a sixty year long civil war. Colombia’s civil war began in the 1950’s and is still going. What began as a fight for the rights of small farmers has largely turned into paramilitary groups of drug lords and mini drug lords and kidnappers hiding out in the jungle with little chance of reintegrating into society. The government has gotten the rebellion out of the cities but the surviving drug lords in the jungle still try to ship their product out of the country by various means. If you need help getting high quality organic Arabica coffee feel free to contact us at www.BuyOrganicCoffee.org. We will be pleased to find the coffee you want and need and to arrange export and shipping. Don’t worry about not speaking Spanish. We will deal directly for you with folks in the Eje Cafetero, the Colombian coffee growing district. Why buy Arabica coffee? It is the best. And the best of the best is organic Arabica coffee from heart of Colombia. Contact us today for more information.
How Much of the Cost of a Cup of Coffee Are the Beans?
How much of the cost of a cup of coffee are the beans? This question comes to mind as the price of Arabica coffee goes up again. We wrote previously that the Brazil drought drives coffee prices higher. But if the price of coffee beans goes up ten percent does the cost of your coffee go up by the same percent or the same number of cents? The United States Department of Agriculture published an article about the cost pass-through in the coffee industry. We found it published at Colombia.edu.
A rich data set of coffee prices and costs was used to determine to what extent changes in commodity costs affect manufacturer and retail prices. On average, a 10-cent increase in the cost of a pound of green coffee beans in a given quarter results in a 2-cent increase in manufacturer and retail prices in that quarter. If a cost change persists for several quarters, it will be incorporated into manufacturer prices approximately cent-for-cent with the commodity-cost change. Given the substantial fixed costs and markups involved in coffee manufacturing, this translates into about a 3-percent change in retail prices for a 10-percent change in commodity prices. We do not find robust evidence that coffee prices respond more to increases than to decreases in costs.
Thus there is an eventual thirty percent pass-through in the cost of green coffee beans to a bag of roasted coffee beans. This tells us how much of the cost of coffee are the beans.
Organic versus Regular Coffee
The price of coffee is going up because of the drought in Brazil. The bountiful harvest in Colombia is not enough to pick up the slack. But, other factors come to bear on the price of organic coffee and the market price of healthy organic coffee beans. The problem with organic coffee production is not drought but heat. Coffee leaf rust usually does not infect coffee grown at altitudes higher than 6,000 feet. This is because the fungus cannot tolerate the low nighttime temperature usually found at that altitude. But, as temperatures climb just a few degrees in the nighttime in Central and South America the fungus is creeping up the slopes to where organic coffee is commonly grown. The issue with organic coffee is that there is a lot less of it than regular coffee. Although the cost to put a bag of organic coffee on the shelf of a store in North America only goes up thirty percent of the percent rise in the cost of coffee beans the scarcity of organic coffee will tend to drive prices higher. This is the age old law of supply and demand. Eventually other producers will catch on to what Colombia has done. They will replant with leaf rust resistant strains. This will allow coffee production and especially organic coffee production to rise again and help bring down prices. In the meantime expect to pay more for organic coffee beans.
Wholesale Organic Green Coffee from Colombia
Coffee production in Colombia is returning to pre-2008 levels. We noted this fact in our article Wanted: Coffee Pickers in Colombia. The June 2014/15 USDA forecast illustrates this fact with a graph.
Colombia Coffee Production
Colombia’s production is forecast up 1.0 million bags to 12.0 million on higher yields. Continued growth is expected following 7 years of below -average output due to the spread of coffee rust and coffee cherry borer insect. The rust initially affected as much as 40 percent of the planted area, but has since declined to less than 10 percent following an aggressive tree renovation program. Colombia is expected to rely on imported beans from Ecuador and Peru for just one-third of consumption, down from nearly 85 percent a few years ago. Bean exports are forecast to gain 300,000 bags to 10.5 million on increased shipments to the United States and Europe.
With the increase in overall coffee production in Colombia one can expect an increase in organic production as well. Wholesale organic green coffee from Colombia is some of the best Arabica coffee in the world.
Colombian coffee is the best Arabica coffee in the world. There are several outstanding Colombian organic coffee brands. Here is a short list of folks in the Cafetero who can provide organic wholesale coffee in quantity.
Volcan
Linea Roja
Sostenible
Origen
Oma
Frailes
Juan Valdez
Café Madrid
Fincas Aliadas
Tolima
Eco Bio Colombia
Asprounion
Mountain View Coffee
Café Pitayo
Why Colombia?
Colombia is a major coffee producer ranking behind the larger country of Brazil in coffee volume produced. But Colombia is the best producer of high quality Arabica coffee in volume for shipping organic wholesale coffee. To get organic wholesale coffee from Colombia you need to deal with a professional exporter because of issues unique to Colombia, namely a sixty year long civil war. Colombia’s civil war began in the 1950’s and is still going. What began as a fight for the rights of small farmers has largely turned into paramilitary groups of drug lords and mini drug lords and kidnappers hiding out in the jungle with little chance of reintegrating into society. The government has gotten the rebellion out of the cities but the surviving drug lords in the jungle still try to ship their product out of the country by various means. So, if you are going to fly out of Manizales, Pereira, Medellin, Cali, or Bogotá expect to have your bags searched for drugs as a large drug-sniffing police dog sits by. The office will pin prick any bags of coffee that you are carrying and test with a mechanical “sniffer” if not the large pooch at his side. If you decide that you would like to forego this experience and mail your coffee back home forget it. You cannot mail packaged coffee out of Colombia! If you are interested in Colombian organic coffee brands you need to carry the coffee out yourself or deal with someone who exports Colombian organic coffee brands. For more information about Colombian organic coffee brands feel free to contact us at https://buyorganiccoffee.org/contact-us/.