Friday 21st, the big news clover

Clover has sold to Starbucks, as most coffee people would know by now, congrats Zander and the team. Special thanks to David who helped us alot along our clover path. There has been many goings over what will, what did, and why in the coffee blogs/boards over recent days. My feelings are that clover re ignited our interest in the brewed/filter coffee arena. They made it exciting and renewed. It was a redirection to a quite pure way of drinking coffee, similar to cupping. Clover had developed a way to bring it to the public in a form which repackaged a perhaps tired format. I  think clover should be congratulated on its contribution to the coffee world. Obviously no one really knows what will happen to clover 1s machines, and whether they will still be available. We have ordered another to go into St Ali as we feel that they may be scarce if not available at all, whether we get it or not will depend on whether we feel they will be able to be serviced. Local News no cupping this weekend, due to the easter holidays. Back on next week with some new award winners provided by cafe imports.

Saturday the 15th March,

We have been on a little bit of a rant recently. Storage and transportation of green coffee. George Howell is freezing his green, perhaps not the most environmentally friendly way to go but serious. Mane has a controlled environment he is testing. Others are doing this and that. The main area of concern for us is that trip from wherever to here. That 2 month trip inside that steel box that lets temperatures rise and fall with huge differences, large humidity changes and  exposure to salt and

sea winds etc. Hopefully over the next few months we will be able to trial a few different methods of packaging and also packing inside temp controlled containers as well. The latest CoE's are clearly customs and should be here this week as well as some rwandan golden cup and other goodies. The La Montana CoE will be a

register of interest thing as we will only roast when we have interest.

cheers Mark

Back in the swing of it, Saturday 8th

Back and in to it, thanks all those who dropped past the Celebrate the bean booth. The clover

was great and we had some fun. We do have some great new coffees on our sheet at the moment.

The Bin 549 is coming up a treat and the new Mercanta coffees are working well. We will have some new CoE coffees in the next few weeks

Good to see a clover in Epicure, good work Nolan.

All true geeks should really get some Cachoeria Canario which is a very unusual varietal. The Peru, Yirg, El Sal and Guat are outstanding as well.

Thanks to all the people on our recent trip... It was a great experience.