Coming up to Christmas last year we released 2 Costa Rican coffees which quickly became some of our favourite coffees and were very popular with our customers. Ferg had the pleasure of visiting the Chacon family earlier this year and was able to bring them some of the Coffee Chocolate we had made with their Yellow Honey Process beans, where it was scoffed around a cupping table with 15 other coffee tasters and farm workers! Francisca and Oscar own and run Las Lajas micromill and do an outstanding job of growing and processing all the way through from picking to...
This was a big deal, and to begin with, I wasn’t sure who was who and what I was doing there! My first ever origin trip last October took me to Brazil. It started by being invited to make up a small team of coffee buyers, tasters and general coffee geeks by Morten Wennersgaard from Nordic Approach. We typically buy a container per year from the wonderful coffee, farming, and general legacy pro’s at FAF coffees and so this was a little out of left field. Morten wanted a small crew to travel around with some exporters and farmers, as...
