If you watched Super Bowl 50 you may have seen the commercial for Death Wish Coffee. Vikings rowing a long boat on a stormy sea that turns out to be… Death Wish Coffee! So what’s with Death Wish Coffee? Forbes published an article about the commercial, the company and a small business ended up with […]
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Did Gourmet Coffee Start with Alfred Peet?
By Tim Thompson on Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 | No Comments
Most of us of a certain age grew up drinking mass produced ground coffee such as Maxwell House or Folgers. The concept of whole bean coffee roasted and ground just before making coffee did not exist. At least it didn’t until Alfred Peet came along. Did gourmet coffee start with Alfred Peet? Investor’s Business Daily […]
Read More...Will Climate Change Destroy Coffee Production
By Tim Thompson on Friday, January 22nd, 2016 | No Comments
A hotter climate is going to be bad for coffee. We have written about how coffee leaf rust wipes out coffee crops. Coffee farmers need to replant with new strains and plant higher on the mountain where temperatures are lower. Will climate change destroy coffee production? According to CNBC, the CEO of Illy, climate change […]
Read More...Why Would You Buy Shade Grown Coffee?
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 | No Comments
The most common arguments for shade grown coffee are the ecological benefits. But there is more to why you would buy shade grown coffee. Let’s start with ecological benefits of shade grown coffee as reported by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. By reviewing more than 50 studies on shade-grown coffee farms in regions ranging from […]
Read More...Forty Years of Observations on the Effects of Coffee
By Tim Thompson on Friday, November 27th, 2015 | No Comments
We live in a world with an increasingly short news cycle. All too often the news contains half-baked opinions that are presented as fact. In regard to coffee consumption it is nice to see that someone has taken the long view (forty years). Business Insider just published an interview with Harvard University researcher, Dr. Frank […]
Read More...Why Shade Grown Coffee?
By Tim Thompson on Saturday, November 21st, 2015 | No Comments
Years ago we published an article about shade grown organic coffee. As more and more coffee varieties are developed for full sun there are risks. Why shade grown coffee? Shade grown organic coffee has historically been grown in a mixed species forest that includes fruit and hardwood trees as well as other bushes and plants. […]
Read More...Coffee Varieties: Java
By Tim Thompson on Saturday, November 14th, 2015 | No Comments
Coffee varieties are the subspecies of coffee that occur by natural selection and by selective breeding. Disease resistance, yield and flavor vary from variety to variety. Variety or breed selection is critical to the planter as he or she must pick the optimal variety for altitude, sun or shade, soil conditions and climate. Regarding coffee […]
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Why Is Coffee Called Java?
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, November 5th, 2015 | No Comments
Have you ever wondered why some people refer to coffee as java? For that matter how the expression a cup of Joe come about? The reason for why coffee is called java is clear and the reason we ask for a cup of Joe is questionable. Let’s go back in time to the era called […]
Read More...Coffee Varieties: Sarchimor
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 | No Comments
A coffee variety more resistant to coffee leaf rust than most is sarchimor. This is a hybrid between the Costa Rican Villa Sarchi coffee and a Timor variety. Timor coffee itself is a hybrid between Arabica and robusta which is what gives the coffee its leaf rust resistance. Besides being grown today in Costa Rica, […]
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