coffee community & Events
A RECAP - ARCHERS ORIGIN TRIP TO RWANDA
It was our first time organizing a specialty coffee origin trip with the intention of bringing coffee friends along for a few days of leisurely learning. That meant our itinerary...
Archers Conversations: Kemal Risyad
Kemal Risyad has come close to the UAE National Barista Championship thrice, scoring the Silver each time. In this Archers Conversation, he takes us through his specialty coffee journey, his...
A Recap - Q Processing Professional in Sidama Bensa, Ethiopia
We got our feet wet and our hands dirty in earnest attempts to craft various cup profiles in the effort to master the ins and outs of post-harvest processing. Amid...
PRODUCER'S TALKS
LUIZ PAULO PEREIRA OF CARMO COFFEES
Mid-December, our warehouses welcomed 96 tons of everyone’s favorite single-origin cafe staple, Brazil. It was a feat met with much-deserved fanfare. Why? Because maintaining a massive supply of fast-moving, good-quality,...
LUIS MARCELINO OF AROMA NATIVO
The core of their discussions is that coffee can be both lucrative and personally fulfilling, as long as one does a proper job with it. By this, Luis means that...
Hidardo Hernandez of Cafesmo, Honduras
Archers, Micro & Home Roasters’ Go-To for Greens Our desire to spread the joy of specialty coffee encompasses every specialty coffee lover across the different roles in our industry. With...
Academy & Education
Guide to Cupping for Beginners
We’ve all heard that the only way to know how to taste coffee is to taste coffee. To have an idea of how well you are able to do this...
Water for Coffee
Thinking about water for coffee? How broadly and deeply we think about the perfect water for coffee will always depend on why we’re thinking about it in the first place....
Thinking About Density
Density matters in brewing because it dictates how porous and, in effect, how soluble the coffee beans are, which in turn determines how much of the favorable qualities of the...