SCA Expo 2022 in Boston is just one week away, and we can’t wait to see you — and our producing partners — after such a long time apart! In that spirit of connection, we’re hosting Office Hours all weekend long, giving our customers the opportunity to say hello and get read more
This International Women’s Day, we’re delighted to feature four women-produced coffees. One is a judges’ favorite from the Brazil Forca Café Competition. Two come from small groups of women but very different contexts — the 20 Mexican women from Zongolica are enormously proud of their collective effort and named their coffee “Women read more
The Força Café Competition is a singular opportunity for smallholder farmers in Brazil to show off their best coffees. With the contest now in its eighth year, many of these producers have spent seven years focusing on coffee quality improvements alongside agronomists from the nonprofit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung Foundation read more
This International Women's Day, we're celebrating all the women in coffee we're so grateful for. We deeply appreciate every single woman who makes this company run (did you know InterAmerican is 75 percent women?) and especially leaders including Kayd Whalen, head of our San Diego office, and Crystal Reyes, head read more
Global shipping delays continue to affect the movement of coffee, and logistics experts are warning that shippers should prepare for 2021 to be a "perpetual peak season across all transport modes," American Shipper reported. The same article describes global supply chains as "buckling under huge order volumes and a confluence read more
There was no party on Fazenda da Lagoa this year. But happily, there are still beautiful, hard-won microlots to celebrate. The Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) farm traditionally plays host to several long days of judging the hundreds of samples that are submitted to the Forca Café Championship by smallholder farmers. read more
Our heartiest and most sincere thanks to the judges, for making time during the craziest of times! The winners of the 7th Annual Força Café Championship will be announced during a live, online awards ceremony Nov. 30, at 10 a.m. ET.
During these incredibly strange and brutal days, there’s a temptation to imagine we’re simply weathering something. That if we can hang in there, and for long enough, we’ll get to resume life as usual. But, “This isn’t a temporary disruption,” the MIT Technology Review shared recently, offering a stark reality read more
Here at InterAmerican Coffee, we are closely monitoring developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and modifying our emergency preparations accordingly. While the situation remains fluid, we’re taking every precaution to ensure that our business operations keep running and coffee remains available, while making the safety of our employees, customers and communities our top priority. To date: — We are following the guidance of the CDC, read more
UPDATE: Regretfully, we've had to cancel this class. We'll be rescheduling it for late summer, though. If you'd like to be informed well in advance, please drop a note to education@nkg.coffee and we'll include you on emails from our Education team. Apologies for any inconvenience, and we look forward to read more
