THE COFFEE MARKET AND THE IMPORTANT TRANSITION
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COMMERCIAL COMMODITY COFFEE Commercial or commodity coffee is the term that is usually referred to coffees that do not reach the 80 points in the SCA Punctuation Criteria. But in a simple way, commercial coffee is that coffee that you will find in the supermarket, soluble coffee, and coffee from…
COFFEE IN FARM – THE VARIOUS STAGES OF IT
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SETTING UP A COFFEE SEEDLING NURSERSY – ALL THE STEPS INTO IT In this quick but very informative article, we translated the basic stages of growing the coffee seedlings, written by FLOR DE CAFÉ´s association producer and agronomic engineer Alexandre Teixeira Vilella, that is also specialized in coffee fermentation. We…
8 BEST CHANGES FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE COFFEE SHOP
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When you talk about specialty coffee, some terms come to mind instantly such as “fair trade”, “ecologic”, “sustainable” and quite a few more. We usually visualize that nice landscape of farms in South America or Africa with steep cultures of coffee in the mountains, then the nice shiny roasting machine…
WHAT ARE THE COSTS INSIDE AN ESPRESSO CUP?
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As I have always dealt with numbers, and as it is very easy for me to understand the main steps into pricing something because of my professional background, I have decided to do a post to show the main costs involved in making a cup of an espresso shot being…