InterAmerican Traders Dana Andrews and Ed Kaufmann, along with CEO Florian Benkhofer, travelled to Ethiopia in early December—back when our collective biggest stress was holiday shopping—to meet with exporters and producers and get the best fresh-crop coffees headed our way. Those coffees will soon reach an utterly transformed United States. read more
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
Ethiopia's fresh-crop green coffee will arrive in spring 2020 InterAmerican Trader Ed Kaufmann shares in this edited excerpt from his trip report—along with plenty of good news. Ethiopia’s coffee supply chains are as nuanced and complex as its celebrated beans. But with ever-changing consumption trends, revamping governmental regulations and climate read more
"When we arrived, we pulled off the road at an unmarked gate, very unassuming, where we were surprisingly welcomed by a full-blown ceremonial celebration. There were hundreds of people in costume, singing, dancing and playing local instruments."
Modern coffee transportation features moisture-proof shipping boxes, fast motor-fueled travel times and GPS tracking, but of course it hasn’t always been this way. In fact, we have antiquated shipping methods to thank for one of the world’s more unique coffees: India Monsooned Malabar. While many people associate India with tea growing, read more
In 1764, the Portuguese monarchy gave a 3,500-hectare parcel to the earliest ancestor of its agricultural director, J. Paiva, with instructions to raise cattle and sugar cane. Christened Fazenda da Lagoa, it added coffee plants in 1860 and is today one of Brazil’s oldest coffee estates. For more than two read more
As the mercury keeps rising, café customers are seeking reprieve from the heat in iced coffees. With the option of multiple brewing methods to highlight different flavors, finding just the right coffee for your preferred method can be a challenge. So, below are a few ideas for improving your cold read more
Four delicious green coffees from Myanmar arrived this week. One Q Grader summed them up as: “The acidity we expect from Africa, with the savoriness we love from PNG.”
“Bees benefit us because when they are out foraging, going from bloom to bloom, they improve the quality of everything that grows on our farms,” says Domingo de la Cruz Toma, a coffee producer and beekeeper who leads the apiary school at the Maya Ixil cooperative in El Quiché, Guatemala. read more
“The most striking thing, right away, was that these young producers aren’t scared to try new things. They’re so open to ideas,” says Kayd Whalen, InterAmerican senior vice president, describing a trip just days before to Risaralda, Colombia, to visit the newest Coffee Kids project. In 2015, Coffee Kids became read more
