29th Jan ......

Iv'e been a little lazy..... on holidays the last few weeks.. and pretty much no coffee time..

So a great break but back into the fold now. The latest is that we expect our Mercanta shipment in next week, and the Coe's etc a few weeks after that. The blends are a changing and we are going through a fairly solid training stint in January. We will have a few great cuppings coming up, we plan to have the top 10 Bolivian CoE coffees to cup in a "our top 10 bolivian" cupping. Lame title but you probably get the drift, we have the coe bolivian samples so we will roast them and have ou own cupping to se if we can pick the top coffees. I am off to visit a couple of CoE farms, catch up with a few friends, and some cupping and roasting  over the next few weeks. I send in some Blogs, we will be heading to La Montana El Salvador to check on the current crop.. We have some La Montana heading our way.

Tuesday 8th Jan

The Brother is back open again, and cuppings will be held this Saturday. A detailed rundown of the coffees will be available at BBB and St Ali.  We have purchased some more CoE coffees which we expect to have on hand in late Feb. The El Sal La Montana will be of particular interest. A pacamara varietal. We also have some Rwandan golden cup lots, the golden cup is a precursor to the Cup of excellence to begin this year in Rwandan. 

Summer

Happy New Year to all...

St Ali opened today and BBB will open Monday.

We have spent the last week having a little R & R down the coast surfing. 

Ok roasting has been in full swing for a few days and we

are back up to speed with blends and most of the single origins, another day of roasting singles tomorrow.

Our new synesso is in and going strong, along with a few changes to St ALi. The Brother will be ready Monday and we will have cuppings every Saturday starting next week. 

We will have our last lot of COE coffees next week, I think we have some of the Guatemalan left.  I will confirm early next week.