https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Gzjft66sbHQkmm0vY6i6u?si=eJhh7TojQCWyoww9ljCXaw In our first episode of Coffee Nation, we sit down with Bruno Colozza and Phil Lanzarotta from Barocco Coffee to discuss the history of their business while also addressing the various challenges that the coffee industry is currently facing during the...

I like to drink concentrated syrup; I can just pour some into the glass, add cold water and my beverage is ready. Later on, I always thought to myself—I wish I could do the same with coffee, I wish I could...

The world shipping industry is millennia old. The accumulated experience along with modern technology has provided consumers with assured confidence that the desired products will be available efficiently and expediently.  This is very true regarding coffee logistics. When was the last time...

"It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee."Donna A. Favors As the American Civil War came to its conclusion and coffee began to take a more permanent place in the lives of regular Americans,...

What is Bicerin Coffee and how was it invented? To understand the origins of Bicerin coffee, we must first travel to Turin, Italy in the year, 1763. A man by the name of Guiseppe Dentis opens a small coffee shop along the...

A coffee crisis is brewing and it isn’t pretty. The sad truth is, it has probably been going on for as long as coffee has been exported. What are we talking about? The small farm holder who grows approximately 80% of...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xMqV9Qli8V4jn6oVkBeW9?si=HjwybXhyTGWORRXahetHtA In this week's episode of Coffee Nation, we get on a call with Damian Reed, co-owner of La Buena Tierra, to find out how he opened up his coffee processing facility in the middle of nowhere in Barreta, Coclé in Panama. We...

Welcome to our third post in the series $1-$1000. This series endeavors to explain the reasons for such a broad gap on coffee farm prices. The first post laid the groundwork by showing the reality of coffee prices today for many...