(The journal)

Stories
from the chain.

(The farm.
The roast.
The cup.)

Sorting the harvest: a day with Doña Maria.

Five hours up the mountain from Manizales, the harvest decisions that shape a season are made one cherry at a time.

All essays

06 essays

The economics of specialty coffee push toward bigger drums and longer profiles. We've gone the other way — and the cup is better for it.

There's a café tucked behind the cathedral that has been pulling shots the same way for thirty years. We sat down with the owner.

A breakdown of where every dollar of a $13 bag of Brewtopia coffee goes — including the parts most companies won't show you.

A field guide to the three main coffee processes — washed, natural, honey — and the flavor signatures each leaves in the cup.

Bad packaging, worse forecasting, and a pricing model that almost sank us. A founders' note on what didn't work.