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425. And so it begins
When we published our 2014 New Year’s resolutions back in January, at the top of the list was this: “enlist industry leaders and research institutes in a comparative cupping of two leading Colombian...
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436. The CRS Colombian Varietal Cuppings: Stumptown
Today I interview Adam McClellan, green coffee buyer for the iconic Portland-based roaster Stumptown, as we resume our series of conversations with specialty coffee tastemakers regarding their...
View Article438. The CRS Colombian Varietal Cuppings series adjourns (for now)
Over the past six weeks, this blog has been devoted exclusively to the CRS Colombian Varietal Cuppings–a series of comparative cuppings of Castillo and Caturra samples from our Borderlands project...
View Article440. Revisiting our 2014 New Year’s resolutions
A year ago we made three New Year’s resolutions on this blog: Generate more results-based evidence. Help the coffee sector navigate uncharted waters. Borrow a page from the microfinance playbook. Today...
View Article441. Getting by with a little help from our friends: The Borderlands Advisory...
Today: how representatives of six leading specialty coffee companies who share our commitment to transform the coffee chain in Nariño, Colombia, are helping us create opportunities for smallholder...
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Stumptown and the case of the Yellow Maragogype
I reported here almost a year ago about the Yellow Maragogype, a genetic curiosity we stumbled onto in our work Nariño. Today, the first chapter in the Yellow Maragogype story comes to a fairy-tale...
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A simple question: Castillo or Caturra?
Yesterday I had the honor to present the preliminary results of the Colombia Sensory Trial at the 2015 SCAA Symposium. The Colombia Sensory Trial is a cross-sector collaboration with allies in the...
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SCAA Symposium video: “A Simple Question”
Yesterday SCAA Symposium organizers posted a video of my presentation “A Simple Question: Castillo or Caturra?” Watch it in its entirety here. . Photo courtesy of Sprudge.
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Back-to-School Theme: What (and Where) I Drank This Summer
It’s that time of year again: back-to-school time. Which means it is also time for the annual “What I Did This Summer” essay. As a home roaster in Ecuador with a limited array of locally available...
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Nariño’s Third Wave
Nariño, Colombia, strikes me as a coffee origin that everyone in coffee knows, but very few people in coffee know well. . The road from Linares to Samaniego. . I have had the extraordinary good fortune...
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