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A Floral and Peachy Delight from Sidama in Ethiopia

A Floral and Peachy Delight from Sidama in Ethiopia

It’s always a good time when the new harvest from Ethiopia arrives into the roastery. This new coffee from the Bochesa washing station in Sidama is a floral and peachy delight, and we can’t wait for you to try it.   The Bochesa washing station is located in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia, and is named after the local kebele (the country’s smallest administrative division). Sidama is home to four and a half million people, the majority of whom are the Sidama people, an ethnic group who traditionally inhabited the area. Like many of Ethiopia’s ethnic groups, the Sidama people have their own unique language, traditions, and cultural practices. They even have their own New Year, Fichee-Chambalaalla, which has been recognised by UNESCO as an example of intangible cultural...

Fionn Pooler on June 03, 2025
A Small but Mighty Coffee Region

A Small but Mighty Coffee Region

Oh Colombia, we’re so glad to have you back in the roastery. This fresh season coffee (also May’s single origin subscription) is a beautifully clean and sweet community lot from a group of smallholder farmers in Tolima in the Colombian Andes. Although not as prolific or famous as some of its neighbouring regions, Tolima stands out for a number of reasons. First, it is relatively new to coffee production: until very recently, the department was controlled by members of Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group that for decades fought a bloody insurgency against the Colombian government. During this period farmers in Tolima mainly grew coca, or weren’t able to farm at all, but since the ceasefire started in 2016 many have begun to grow coffee...

Fionn Pooler on April 30, 2025
Is it Geisha or Gesha Coffee? Which is correct?

Is it Geisha or Gesha Coffee? Which is correct?

Introduction to ge(i)sha coffee We’re excited to have just taken delivery of a lovely Gesha from Peruvian producer Maria Nila with deliciously sweet, floral notes of orange blossom and green apple. But what exactly is Gesha and why is it often also spelled “Geisha” with an i? The Gesha coffee varietal has captivated drinkers and coffee professionals around the world since it burst onto the scene in 2004 when a farm called Hacienda La Esmeralda won the Best of Panama competition using the then-little-known variety. In the decades since, Gesha has grown in prestige to its current status at the pinnacle of the speciality coffee world. Varieties are naturally occurring and genetically distinct subspecies of coffee — for example, if you’ve seen Caturra or Bourbon on one of our labels,...

Fiona Grant on April 23, 2025
Direct from the Mountains of Peru

Direct from the Mountains of Peru

Our new True North (and April’s subscription coffee) is particularly special as we purchased it direct through the Huadquiña Cooperative on the slopes of Machu Picchu during our recent trip to Peru. Coffee from Savage Mountain Don Armando Ramírez Sánchez is an organic coffee producer whose farm, Finca Miscabamba, is located in the mountains of Cusco. He grows coffee at altitudes of up to 2,350 metres above sea level in the Salkantay river basin in the Peruvian Andes, not far from Machu Picchu. Salkantay is the highest and most important mountain in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. A hiking trail on the mountain has been named among the 25 best treks in the world, but it is not for the faint of heart: Salkantay is often translated from Quechua as “Savage Mountain”. When...

Fionn Pooler on April 07, 2025
How the Morning Sun is helping change lives in Bolivia

How the Morning Sun is helping change lives in Bolivia

Bolivia, landlocked, high blown and so often overlooked and forgotten. And yet it is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary countries in the world. For starters it isn’t really a country in the European sense of a homogenous nation state at all. Renamed by former president Evo Morales as a ‘Plurinational State’ in recognition of the region’s diverse ethnic identity. There are 36 different ethnic groups, each with their own language, that survived colonisation and more than 200 years of Spanish rule. And the landscapes in Bolivia are as varied and rich as its people, ranging from high Andean peaks with vast salt flats in the south to dense Amazon jungle in the North. Our favourite shift in vistas is the transition from the Altiplano into the coffee growing Yungas...

Fiona Grant on March 26, 2025
Bring on Bolivia!

Bring on Bolivia!

Another year, another delivery of this very special coffee from the famous coffee producing Mamani family of Bolivia’s remote Uchumachi community high in the Bolivian Yungas. The Yungas is a hugely biodiverse ecoregion that stretches along the eastern slope of the Andes mountain range from Peru to Bolivia and into Argentina. In Bolivia, the region ranges from 400 up to 3,500 metres and is made up of a combination of tropical rainforest and cloud forests. Northern trade winds deposit fog and rain across the high mountains and provide a suitably warm, humid environment for growing coffee. The Bolivian Yungas has always been central to the country’s coffee production, with one report from 1902 noting that the plant was so well-suited to the region that merely dropping a seed on the...

Fionn Pooler on February 26, 2025
Why have green coffee prices skyrocketed this year?

Why have green coffee prices skyrocketed this year?

You may have read in the news in recent weeks that green coffee prices have skyrocketed to historic highs. The industry has been affected by a combination of factors that have seen arabica coffee prices literally double in the last 12 months. Reasons for this include recent unpredictable weather conditions in Brazil and Vietnam (the world’s two largest coffee producers), rising shipping costs, the threat of trade tariffs and a depletion of global stocks as demand outstrips supply.  While historically coffee prices have often been too low for producers this dramatic sudden surge in the market price has created turbulence and uncertainty throughout the coffee industry. The  ‘C price’ that sets the market price for arabica coffee is subject to speculation on the New York Stock Exchange and although traditionally...

James Grant on February 17, 2025
Welcoming back East Timor. Naturally organic coffee.

Welcoming back East Timor. Naturally organic coffee.

For the fifth year in a row, we have worked with our friends at Karst Organics to source a delicious new coffee—this one is a juicy and sweet community lot from the farmers of Cristo Liurai in East Timor.   East Timor, half of a small island off the northern coast of Australia, has had a tumultuous history, including long periods of colonial subjugation: Control of the island passed from the Netherlands to Portugal to Indonesia before finally being handed to the Timorese themselves at the end of the millennium. Those colonial masters introduced coffee to the country, a crop which continues to play a massive role in the economy.   Coffee is the country’s second-most exported commodity after oil, and a third of the population relies on the crop...

Fionn Pooler on February 01, 2025
Soaring Into the New Year With Peru El Condor

Soaring Into the New Year With Peru El Condor

We’re starting the new year with a soaring new coffee, Peru El Condor, namesake of the enormous bird of prey that makes the Andean region its home. Like many other countries, Peru’s coffee history has an indirect but notable connection to the British empire’s colonial dominance. For the first hundred or so years after the plant was brought to Peru from Ecuador, coffee was grown almost exclusively for local consumption—however, colonial powers eventually realised its potential as an export crop.    In the late 1800s the coffee leaf rust disease decimated production in Indonesia, which at the time was a major exporter of coffee to Europe. Peru, recently independent from Spain, was struggling financially and defaulted on a loan from the British government, which resulted in Peru handing over two...

Fionn Pooler on January 06, 2025
Adventures from a Sourcing Trip to Peru

Adventures from a Sourcing Trip to Peru

An altitude graph of our trip to Peru would be as jagged as the Andes mountains that run through the country. This was a whirlwind adventure very kindly laid on by PromPeru to encourage foreign trade and I was one of a lucky number of coffee and cacao buyers from North America and Europe invited along for the trip. Within a space of five days we had gone from sea level Lima up to Cusco at 3,400m, then back down to 80% humidity in Puerto Maldonado in deepest Amazonia before heading through a 4,300m high Andean pass to the cool little coffee towns of Quillabamba and Santa Teresa. But first was Expoamazonica in Puerto Maldonado. A fun, laid back jungle city on the shores of the vast Madre de Dios...

Fiona Grant on November 06, 2024
Our new True North: Nicaragua San Antonio

Our new True North: Nicaragua San Antonio

This month we are spotlighting a new coffee from Finca San Antonio in Nicaragua, a country we haven't stocked for a few years. A lovely, balanced and sweet offering that has been processed using the fully washed method, San Antonio is our newest True North coffee.

Fionn Pooler on September 05, 2024
The Coffee Academy returns with a new look for 2024

The Coffee Academy returns with a new look for 2024

Although cafes offer great first time job opportunities for young people in rural Scotland, there are very limited training opportunities in speciality coffee and barista skills. The Glen Lyon Coffee Academy is dedicated to fixing this by running a fully immersive three-month mentoring programme for anyone between 16 and 24 this autumn.

Jamie Grant on August 08, 2024

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