SCA Expo 2023 Round-Up!
EXPO is approaching, and this is the round-up of everything we’ve got going on at and around the show! See you in Portland, friends.
Holiday Closure and Ordering Update
Due to increased holiday shipment demands, we anticipate December to be a challenging month for LTL freight in the United States.
New Compostable Green Coffee Sample Bags
Our new green-coffee sample bags are made from biodegradable plant-based materials and designed to be composted by you. One of our primary values is to decrease our negative impact on the earth at every chance we get, and this is a real-life opportunity to do so. We believe this new packaging is a step in the right direction, but simply sending out a compostable material instead of a plastic material doesn’t mean we’re doing anything better unless these bags actually end up in the compost.
Cauca & Nariño Purchase Planning
We have designed our purchase planning tools with you in mind to make buying coffee with us smoother than ever. By purchase planning, you can make decisions based on the most up-to-date information on current crop offerings with expert guidance from our sales reps working closely with our green buyers at origin.
Regenerative Agriculture and The New Generation of Specialty Coffee in Tarqui, Colombia
We’ve been sourcing some of our favorite coffees from Huila, Colombia, since the early 2000s, when we started developing relationships with producers farming along the verdant mountains that are home to this region. The delicate balance found within the cup profile of coffees from this area keeps us searching for more — strong, sparkling acidity with notes of clean fruit, carmalized sugars, and just enough body to hold it all together.
This year in Mexico: A story of resilience, relationships, and unprecedented quality.
It is thanks to the resilience and determination of producers throughout Mexico that we are seeing quality like never before from the 2021/2022 harvest.
IMPORTANT: Special Note on Freight Accessory Charges
We all know it, that feeling of pure joy as another pallet of our favorite coffees arrives to the roastery. Watching eagerly as the pallet is lowered out of the truck and “look!”, the driver is even bringing it inside for us even though we didn’t request it — nice, right?
“How Freight Has Changed And How We Can Change With It”
For all of us that exist somewhere between supply and demand, freight has become a volatile variable in the equation of expectation over the past few years.
Costa Rica Purchase Planning
We have designed our purchase planning tools with you in mind to make buying coffee with us smoother than ever.
Introducing our Education Team
We couldn’t be more excited to announce the addition of two new faces to Cafe Imports, representing our Education team.
Ethiopia Purchase Planning
We have designed our purchase planning tools with you in mind to make buying coffee with us smoother than ever.
Ethiopia: An Update from Green Buyer Claudia Bellinzoni
For all of us that work in coffee, “Happy Near Year” directly translates to “Fresh-crop Ethiopia season” — a time to taste some of the most beautiful coffees of the year.
US Domestic Logistics Update
As you have probably started to see with personal parcels and other shipments, the holiday crunch in the US is already beginning. Unfortunately, coffee pallets and samples are not exempt from the challenges this time of year during a pandemic poses. We haven’t even carved pumpkins yet and we’re finding we need to factor in longer than normal delays when getting delicious coffee to you.
Update: Brazil, Logistics
Over the past few months, supply chain issues have been all over the news.
Applications Are Now Open For The Ikawa Giveaway!
We are pairing up with Glitter Cat Barista and Ikawa in giving away a new Ikawa Pro100 sample roaster to support marginalized coffee professionals within our greater community.
Kenya Update 2021
In a normal February — which this is anything but — we would have staff in Nairobi with cupping spoons in hand, spending hours and hours cupping through fresh offer samples in order to put in the season’s buy plan for Kenya.
An Update on Sourcing Travel in the Time of COVID-19
To our dearest friends, exporters, cuppers, mill managers, associations, cooperatives and most of all, to the farmers, producers and caficultores of the world — we miss you.
Holiday Carrier Update 2020
Well, friends, it’s coming up on the winter holiday season here in the U.S.A., which means two things: One, that we’ve almost made it to the end of 2020 (hooray!), and two, that it’s time for you to mark your calendars with service interruptions from domestic freight carriers, so nothing comes between you and your delicious coffee orders.