The Roaster's Challenge - Day 2 After a great first day, the second day of the Roaster's Guild retreat started with a great breakfast and some time for each team in this years roasting challenge to meet and finalize their coffees for submission. We were looking...

So You Think You Can Roast? This morning we started with a great breakfast and were provided the coffees for this years roasters challenge: "So You Think You Can Roast?" It featured 5 different Brazilian coffees: Coffee 1 is from thecafundo. Aboard region fazenda...

The Roasters Guild has an annual retreat for coffee roasters, exporters, importers or just any one passionate about coffee production. This year it's being held at the Skamania resort in Stevenson Washington right on the Columbia river with it's great views, food, and...

ORGANIC    This refers to coffees grown without using man-made chemicals for 3 years or more such as artificial fertilizers and pesticides .  So a farm that is Certified organic had agreed to follow the mutually agreed-upon growing techniques, including  farming with...

As a Coffee Shop owner people always like to know how we got started in the coffee business. Back in 1994 my wife and business partner,  Sarah and I had been living in Houston and working for a few years in our chosen fields. We  had been inspired by seeing the...