An Introduction First off- lets clear up some confusion around the name. In Italy it’s known as a caffettiera a stantuffo. In New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa it’s known as a ‘Coffee plunger’. In UK ,Netherlands and France the name is ‘Cafetière’. In the United States and Canada, it is known as a ‘French press’ or ‘Coffee press’. The coffee press was patented by Milanese designer Attilio Calimani in 1929. […]

Lunji Estate was founded during Tanzania’s colonial era, in 1893, which was also the year the first coffee trees were planted on the farm. The owner at the time was a German settler. He returned to Europe at the end of the WWI, leaving the management of the farm to the German Colonial Administrator, who […]

As a young man Javier Golondrino used to help his father pick coffee every season. When Javier turned 15, his father gifted him 1 000 trees. Since then, Javier has managed to grow his small parcel of land into a reasonably—sized farm of 2 hectares and now tends to 10 000 coffee trees, comprised of […]

An Introduction The Moka Pot is a stove-top coffee maker that brews coffee by passing boiling water pressurized by steam in a closed system through ground coffee. It’s named after the south western Yemenite city of Mocha which was the purported major marketplace for Coffea Arabica from the 15th to the early 18th century. It was invented by Luigi De […]

Some of you may have noticed that we have a coffee from Ecoagricola already, which is natural processed and 100% Yellow Catucai. This time around, we picked up a bit of their Cup of Excellence awarded coffee. It’s the same variety but processed using the Pulped—Natural method instead of Natural. Pulped—Natural coffees typically have a […]

Let’s take a look at some of the most common points of interest going through an Artisan roasters mind when developing a roast recipe for a particular coffee- —Flavour formation in the roasting process A complex and interesting flavour profile cannot be created if the potential is not there to begin with. Higher quality, well […]

All the dictionaries out there state the word Artisan as denoting goods produced on a small scale using traditional methods by skilled craftsmen. That sounds about right when you think about specialty coffee roasting as opposed to commercial grade roasting (think of supermarket and other large commercial brands) Go for the green The highest quality […]