Happy New Year! And what a hangover 2020 has dealt to us all. When the pandemic really got going and country after country began to close their borders and lock down, coffee, like all crops and harvests, continued to grow and work needed to get done. There is a saying in coffee growing (probably all farming) that it waits for … Continue reading
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Christmas really starts at Monmouth when the panettone and chocolate arrive. Both are rocking this year and you will find more information about them on our website and in our shops. The next thoughts invariably turn to which coffee should be on the table for Christmas and that is where it gets interesting. Like all food choices around important dates … Continue reading
Clocks have gone back, Halloween was less sugary than usual, Corona has a vicious second bite and it has turned cold. So what we all feel like is a cuddle of a coffee and this is where the Brazils on the counter really shine. Each year we visit our friends at Carmo Coffee and select our coffees for arrival at … Continue reading
In August we had our Loring roasters serviced to make sure they were ready and raring to go for winter and to keep us caffeinated, or decaffeinated, for whatever the next googly 2020 has in store for us all. Not including sample roasters, we have roasted on four different types of machinery over our 40 something years and eight separate … Continue reading
We have just finished tasting the new shipment samples from our friends at Agricafe in Bolivia. This year we are buying an assortment of traditional washed and natural coffees. There will be some familiar names on the counter and hopefully they will arrive before Christmas. Agricafe is owned by Pedro Rodríguez and is run with the help of his children … Continue reading
In February we understood that we wouldn’t be able to buy coffee as we usually do this year and we have made a lot of changes. One of the biggest was to cancel our competition in Nariño and rely on Lucia (our person on the ground there) and the Condor team (the exporter we work with) to direct-buy from 24 … Continue reading