Just mixed up another 5LB of my chai blend. Quality tea and spices are expensive! Or so it seems when buying all the ingredients. Is it worth it? Besides customers raving is it really worth it bottom line!

Crunched the numbers using my wholesale selling price of $25 for 400g Brewed makes 4 half gallons concentrate, my suggested mix 1:1 milk, soy etc. So 2 gallons milk ~$6. Honey and dark cane sugar when brewing ~$3. Makes four gallons of lattes. Total cost for…

The article Edwin Martinez wrote about Baristas visiting coffee farms inspired a new analogy for describing the coffee supply chain: coffee as a baton in a

race. The farmer does the very best he can to produce coffee that is

good enough to pay its own bills, and hands the coffee via exporters

then importers to the roaster. The roaster does the very best he can…

Campeonatos de España de Café 2010

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So the Cambridge Coffee shop season of my life has been long gone for months now. What a relief to be away from the executive visits and ill-knowledged practices of that company.

The new season of career I'm in is the exact opposite. Risky. Passionate. and now I'm the ill-knowledged one! Beginning a roasting career is the most exhausting and fantastic choice I could have ever made. I have 12 micro lots that I'm in love with and creating profiles for with such care it makes my…

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I live my everyday life starting the morning with a cup of coffee. It gives me a push to begin the day energised, somewhat excited, enthusiastic, and alert. It makes me think and it soothens my mood and my mind. It is my favorite stress reliever.

Somehow, any coffee works for me...may it be just those instant coffee sachets available everywhere, or those luxurious ones sold in coffee shops. They may be those artificially made or those organic. They may be those just added in…