Coffee & Tea News

The Walk for Water and Benefit Concert are rounding the bend. We hope you have marked your calendars for the two-day fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, March 21 and Monday, March 22. Sign up at our site today and corral some friends to form a relay team. You can test your strength (how much water can [...]

I already referred to this topic in the past but not in detail. I would like to write in a very simple way about the current process of grading and pricing the coffee in Colombia right after the dry parchment leaves the farm. In Colombia, the coffee is mostly traded in dry parchment with average moisture [...]

When someone at work emails me to tell me “Hey you’re famous!” I could be forgiven for wanting to know why? Somebody, somewhere I’ve never met blogged about me on a blog I’ve never heard of until now! What’s more they said really nice things about me – Really!!- “Highy informative and engaging” they wrote [...]

I was reminded recently of how everything and everyone is connected. I was in a meeting with a prospective customer that is looking to buy a new espresso machine.  For various reasons we decided that something from La Marzocco would be a great fit for his new coffee shop.  I told him that I would do some [...]

I recently arrived home from a two week holiday in Western Australia, it was wonderful to say the least and I had the opportunity to experience things I had only dreamt about.   A completely eye opening — and very important aspect– was the coffee culture of Australia, so different from what we are accustomed to in [...]