Coffee Labs Roasters Blog
The Science of Coffee: Coffee the Botanical III—Varietals
So, you thought things were getting complicated when we told you there are over 100 species of coffee? Well we were just getting started! Each spec...
Meet the Producers 2016
Last Month, Coffee Producers Rony & Roger Herrera and Francisco Javier from Nicaragua came to New York to visit Coffee Labs and see how their c...
The Overlooked Dangers in Coffee Sourcing
Over the past several months and years, our blog has been focused on the positive side of our trips to origin. It’s been about the great people we ...
Coffee Is My Soul
Coffee is in my soul. Coffee is community. To me, coffee is the entire world coming together in a single cup. As many of you may be aware, Mike has...
Direct Trade with Thrive Coffee Farmers
For the past few years, Coffee Labs has been proud to work with an organization called Thrive Supply, a division of Thrive Farmers. They are both o...
La Palma Y El Tucan July 2015
It’s been a hot start to the summer for us at Coffee Labs, and it seems like we never stop traveling. Alicia was in Ireland for two weeks, we both ...
Finca Orellana, Honduras 2015
It’s mid April 2015, and once again I find myself in Honduras. I’m outside the airport, waiting for coffee farmer and friend of mine Bryan Orellana...
What is Direct Trade Coffee
I recently received an email from a man asking why we price our coffee the way we do. He told me that his wife wasn't buying the idea that purchasi...
Tanzania
The last leg of my African journey was to Tanzania. I arrived in Dar Saleem airport and I could feel how much bigger this country was than Rwa...
Rwanda is Nothing Like You Think it is!
Rwanda is nothing like most of think. Maybe we think of Diane Fossie and Gorillas in the Mist. Of course many of us probably think of the genocide....
Leaving Burundi
By Alicia Love,
As I sit here in the airport after leave Burundi after only being here three days, it definitely was not enough time! It was enough...
Honduras Finca Liquidambar
By Alicia Love,
When I first started in the specialty coffee industry about 6 years ago, the term "direct trade" was all anyone was talking about. ...