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Don Heaberlin

Male

Colorado Springs, CO

United States

Profile Information:

What is your position in the coffee industry?: coffee shop owner
Where are you located? ( City and Country ): Colorado Springs, USA
How many years have you been in the industry?: 5
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?: yes
Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.: We offer fair trade coffees and teas, I also have businesses in China, Malaysia that deal with coffee, tea and handicrafts.
What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?: Any
About Me:: My passion is fair trade coffee and teas. I also try to work with the poor and underpriveledged in third world countries.
About My Company:: Small local coffee and tea house dealing in fair trade coffees, teas and handicrafts.
What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?: Coffee as an art to produce consistently and working with emerging regions and being multicultural.
Website:: http://tbd

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Alun Evans

Hi Don. We are located in West Java, about 50km south of jakarta up in the foothills. We are primarily a roaster and use our unique location to work no direct trade with small hold growers around Indonesia. Lots of travel involved. Get to work with so many different ethnic groups.

Oct 1, 2008
Alun Evans

Thanks for the comments Don. You are right in saying that although the hours are long, its hard to qualify what we do as "work" as such, because it really is just part of life for me now. Indeed I think many of us in the coffee industry probably do not conciously think of a day in the roastery, an hour behind an espresso machine or a week in the mountains as work- and I reckon thats what makes the people in the industry so unique, so passionate and so pleasantly different.
Been a good while since I was in CO, about 16 years now. Passed through Colorado Springs- was actually living and working in Summit County. Very nice part of the US. Let me know if you are interested in any particular origins, will do my best to get some samples to you. Cheers

Oct 2, 2008
Mike

Hows things going?

Nov 29, 2008