We are happy to announce that the first container of new crop Amaro naturals has landed in Oakland and is available from our friends at Elan Organic Coffees. There will soon be coffee on the east coast as well.
Please contact Kayd Neill at traders@elanorganic.com for samples.
Kayd can also be reached by phone at (619) 235-0392.
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Protected: 2nd Window for 2008 Aricha and Beloya
Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by joseph.
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Hurricane Hartmann Honey
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by joseph.
Times were tough in Panama coffee country this past year as winds from Hurricane Paloma ripped through the Panama highlands, damaging coffee trees and decreasing overall yields for growers. On our recent trip to evaluate the honey coffee crop at Finca Hartmann, we enjoyed some of the greenest days the wind-whipped forests had seen since [...]
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SCAA Coffee of the Year – 2008 Aricha 14 Earns 3rd Place
Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by joseph.
2009 coffees may be on hold due to new Ethiopian Commodity Exchange regulations, but that didn’t stop our 2007/2008 Aricha and Beloya coffees from making their presence felt in Atlanta. Despite having been harvested nearly 17 months ago, Aricha Micro Selection 14 – a small lot from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia – still gained [...]
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Authentic Ethiopia
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by joseph.
It is our great fortune as coffee professionals and enthusiasts that an ultra-talented writer has taken up the task of documenting important chapters in Ethiopia’s coffee story.
Authentic Ethiopia, an exciting new book by Majka Burhardt, promises to explore Ethiopian coffee variety, terroir, and tradition like no other work to-date. In Majka’s words:
“Welcome to a new [...]
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Exporters Shut Down, comments
Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by joseph.
…we see why this is a highly pressurized situation with no easy answers.
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Ethiopia Update, Aricha 32 Poured from Jabena
Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by joseph.
By some estimates, as much as 40% of potential export earnings were lost due to black market trading.
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Coffee Fasting in Ethiopia
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by joseph.
It can be good practice to live for a time without the things that seem to be basic necessities – food for instance. Ethiopians are no strangers to the fast. Now – as coffee buyers seem starved for a solution to getting their increasingly savored Ethiopian special prep lots, the temporary lack of availability may [...]
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ECX has Arrived to Ethiopia
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by joseph.
How much things have changed for Ethiopian coffee in 3 months. The ECX – Ethiopian Commodity Exchange – is up and running and many specially prepared coffee lots have been all but lost for the year, having lost their identity in the required anonymity of the lots in the exchange. The exchange was set up [...]
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Protected: NP Awareness 2009
Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by steven.
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