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Blending at People Possession
Quality Motivated Blending Some thoughts on coffee blending from Alexis Gagnaire of Tanat and People Possession
Blending Trending: tracing the fall and rise of blending in the specialty coffee market
Is blending having a renaissance? To help figure it out, we conducted a survey with 35 global coffee roasteries identifying as specialty to examine their perspectives on the changing utility and marketability of coffee blends.
An Introduction to Ratnagiri
The Ratnagiri Estate, Karnataka. Fermentation wizardry at its finest.
The People Make the Place: Redefining what it means to be an Indian coffee producer
Spectacles invite objectification, but relationships invite understanding. It is with this mindset that I view India's coffee sector.
Starmaya F1: the Curious Case of an Improbable Coffee Hybrid
I’ve been slightly obsessed with one of Luiz Paulo Pereira’s coffee plants for two years now. Luiz himself first served it as a delicate and sparkling pour-over to me, somewhere in the sea of the 2022 Specialty Coffee Association Expo in Boston, and it hasn’t left my mind since.
The Triple Bottom Line and the Coffee-Buying Conundrum
The Coffee-Buying Conundrum and a Coffee-Buyer’s Philosophy
From Farm to Front Counter: How Oaxaca’s specialty cafes bridge the gap between producers and baristas
We often think of the specialty café solely as a feature of the Global North.
Breaking Boundaries: Coffee from Vietnam
Breaking Boundaries Growing up in Vietnam, we thought we knew what Vietnamese Robusta would be like: woody, smoky, rubber-like, not special…
Colonial Contrasts: Java and Sumatra
Colonial Contrasts: Java and Sumatra Java’s role in coffee’s history is well-known, Sumatra’s much less so. One reason is that the coffee industry of the latter was developed by exploiting the fame of the former.