Looking Forward to the New Year in Coffee 2023
As we look forward to the new year in coffee 2023, we must first look back and address the challenging and rewarding year of 2022.
A big thank you goes first to all those we work with. From coffee producers and our exporter partners, through freight and logistics, and ending with the roasters and their customers, amidst changing weather patterns, logistical challenges, a high c market, and post-pandemic economic uncertainty, the specialty coffee community in all parts of the world have held fast to the ideals that set us apart.
The community continued to seek quality and integrity in all stages along the coffee chain and is better positioned to kick off 2023.
Looking to 2023, we are excited to embrace the new normal we find ourselves in. Cautious, undoubtedly volatile, and yet more predictable. This past year, the industry built momentum through reconnection. We plan to continue on this trajectory by traveling more, visiting our friends around the world, attending events, hosting events too, and sourcing sourcing sourcing. We will keep you in the loop with our travels and would love to see you at any opportunity. How else can we say it? We miss you!
What you can look forward to:
Coffees – Now is the perfect time to begin planning your fresh-crop purchases for the year. The best way to stay on top of our current offerings and future arrivals is to sign up for our newsletter and to keep in touch with your sales rep.
After Hours – we will be hosting more events in the After Hours series at our HQ in Berlin, where we will seek to connect with h local community after working hours around a presentation, discussion, and some drinks. Check out our newsletter for the news that we will be sharing in the coming weeks.
Coffee Events – Here are a few events we plan to attend in 2023!
- Amsterdam Coffee Festival, March 30-April 1
- London Coffee Festival, April 20-23
- Café Show Paris, May 13-15
- World of Coffee Athens, June 22-24
Plus Origin travel – talk to your Sales Rep about upcoming opportunities to visit Costa Rica, Colombia, and more!
Harvest Calendar
In the meantime, if you have any needs or questions, are curious about offerings, or want to visit a particular country, please reach out! We’re here and want to connect with you.
From our team to yours, thank you for another incredible year of growth, perseverance, and adaptability. We hope you’ve had a holiday season full of love and feel invigorated for a new year of coffees like we are. We’ll talk to you soon!
Earlier Posts
Huehue, Don’t Tell Me…
Perhaps it’s ironic to say that there are sleeper coffees, but in this season of flashy fruity cups, limited-release microlots, and big-name arrivals, it’s easy to overlook the quieter fresh-crop coffees that can be versatile and delicious while also being accessible—both in terms of their cup quality and characteristics, as well as their price.
Cafe Imports takes Manhattan (and Queens), celebrating Meister’s first book
We are headed to New York City at the end of July to celebrate something the Café Imports team holds very near and dear—the publication of Meister’s first book: New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History! It’s being released by The History Press/Arcadia...
Legendary Coffee Tour: The Alps!
The Cafe Imports Legendary Coffee Tour is coming to THE ALPS! Following the odyssey that was our Legendary Coffee Tour in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, Cafe Imports Europe is taking our travelling cupping event talents to…THE ALPS. We are pleased to...
E.A. Decaffeination Process
Sugarcane Ethyl Acetate (E.A.) Decaffeination is a natural process that not only maintains astonishing integrity of green-coffee flavor, but also allows us to offer decaffeinated coffee that follows an integrated vertical supply chain, as the growing, processing, and even the full decaffeination process all happens at the source in Colombia.
Legendary Coffee Tour: United Kingdom
On the heels of our first ever Legendary Coffee Tour in the U.S., our traveling Cupping event/coffee festivity is jumping across the pond!
Café Imports Europe is packing up their traveling cupping kit and headed to the United Kingdom at the end of this month! And if that’s not exciting enough, we are hitting the Alps (Munich, Zurich, and Vienna) on 31 July–3 August.
17 June, Berlin: Cupping event with Luiz Paulo of Carmo Coffees
Join us at our European office on 17 June at 3pm for a chance to meet and cup with Luiz Paulo, one of the founders of Carmo Coffees—our longtime exporting partner in Carmo De Minas, Brazil. For more information leading up to the cupping and to R.S.V.P, visit our...
Origin Report: Kenya 2017
Fresh-crop Kenya season is one of the most thrilling times of year for us, and not only because the coffees are always delicious and dynamic, but also because their arrival is the culmination of complex work behind-the-scenes—work as complex as the coffees themselves.
Stump the Roaster: Berlin, 4th May
Join our European Cafe Imports team for a night of Stumping the Roaster! A focused conversation about roasting coffee, with an extraordinary panel of coffee professionals. The evenings events will talk place Thursday, May the 4th at 7pm at our European office...
The Legendary Coffee Tour, Spring 2017
We are pleased to be announcing our Spring 2017 “Legendary Coffee Tour“, hitting a cupping table near you this May! The Legendary Coffee Tour is a travelling coffee education event and celebration presented by our notorious team of Café Imports Sales Reps...
Origin Report: Costa Rica 2017
Ever since we bought our first container of Costa Rican microlots in 2004, we have been nurturing and growing our relationships with producers there, only to see the projects, partnerships, and the coffees themselves blossom in ways we honestly just could not have...
Progress Report: Environment 2017–Remaining Carbon Neutral with Trees, Water, & People
“From 2005-2016, every bean of coffee that reached the Café Imports warehouse doors was carbon neutral/carbon offset by planting trees. This new effort (with Trees, Water & People) in 2017, a charitable effort by the ownership of Café Imports, guarantees...
“Perfecting the Enemy of the Good” — A New Cupping Score Card by Ian Fretheim
Cafe Imports Director of Sensory Analysis Ian Fretheim has been working on a new Cupping Score Card for some time now. After careful development and refinement, based on years of on-again/off-again brainstorming and months of application, Ian has arrived upon a new...