Sights, Scents, Subtle Sounds, and the Different Stages of Coffee Roasting Coffee roasting is essentially a cooking process in which aromatics, acids, and other flavor components augment a coffee’s flavor, acidity, aftertaste, and body as desired by the roaster. It is a balancing act of time, temperature, airflow, and execution to bring out the full flavor[…]
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The Stages of Coffee Roasting
By Kurtis-Michael Kearby Coffee Roasting, Papua New Guinea Green Coffee, specialty coffee, Specialty Green Coffee Mar 03, 2022
Trust The Process
By Kurtis-Michael Kearby green coffee, green coffee beans, Papua New Guinea Green Coffee, PNG Green Coffee, specialty coffee, Specialty Green Coffee Jan 20, 2022
Looking at a coffee menu or label on a bag of coffee can often be confusing—so many words in such a small place. There are terms even coffee professionals cannot seem to agree on. For the everyday consumer, it can be difficult to understand. Processing terms like washed, natural, and honey may be familiar to[…]
Big Red – A Maragogype Microlot From Papua New Guinea
By Vikram Patel green coffee, green coffee beans, Papua New Guinea Green Coffee, PNG Green Coffee, specialty coffee, Specialty Green Coffee Oct 08, 2021
Papua New Guinea has long been relegated to “blender coffee” status for many in the American specialty coffee industry. This is for a variety of reasons including supply chain challenges at origin, the limited pool of quality-focused producers, and, notably, the lack of exposure to great PNG for many roasters. All of this created a[…]
Can A Relationship Improve Coffee Quality?
By Luke Waite - pomelo coffee consulting green coffee, green coffee beans, Papua New Guinea Green Coffee, PNG Green Coffee, specialty coffee, Specialty Green Coffee Aug 01, 2021
Specialty coffee…direct trade…fair trade…ethical…relationship. What does it all mean? So many roasters tout that they scour the earth in search of the best coffee sourcing it, roasting it and offering it to you. While that sounds amazing, in my experience, there are many well meaning folks who say they are doing this but actually aren’t.[…]
A Glimpse into the World of Green Coffee in 2021
By Kurtis-Michael Kearby green coffee, green coffee beans, Papua New Guinea Green Coffee, PNG Green Coffee, specialty coffee, Specialty Green Coffee, Uncategorized Jun 25, 2021
The world of coffee is big. It has many different submarkets which can have varying standards, preferences, and procedures. We focus on what can be referred to as the third wave specialty market, which values ethical sourcing, quality, and relationships among other things. With regards to green coffee, it also sometimes operates under fixed-pricing models[…]