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Shall we have a coffee?

21 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Tirria

Good morning!! I am a great coffee lover. I have always liked the smell of fresh homemade coffee for as long as I can remember. Although my first direct contact with this infusion was quite late ... it was when I finished my studies and entered the...

Conscious Caffeine #18 - Villa Sarchi

19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Villa Sarchi Like Caturra, and Pacas, Villa Sarchi is a dwarf Bourbon mutant variety that exhibits a short stature and densely packed internodes as the result of a single-gene mutation. The compact shape and sturdy branches of this cultivar make it p...

Conscious Caffeine #17 - Pacas

19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Pacas Pacas is a natural mutant varietal of the Bourbon lineage that was originally discovered on farmland owned by the Pacas family located in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador in 1949. Just over a decade later, in 1960, the Salvadoran Institute f...

Conscious Caffeine #16 - Timor Hybrid

16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Timor Hybrid Also known as "Tim Tim" throughout Latin America, the Timor Hybrid is a genetically unique and historically significant coffee variety discovered on the Island of Timor in 1920. As the first waves of coffee leaf rust virus began to sweep...

Conscious Caffeine #15 - Maragogipe

16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Maragogipe The Maragogipe coffee variety is believed to be a natural mutant variety of Typica that was discovered outside the municipality of Maragogipe, Bahia, Brazil in 1870. Maragogipe is sometimes referred to as the "elephant bean" variety as a...

Conscious Caffeine #14 - Java

13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Java Owing its name to the Indonesian island of Java, the variety was first introduced to the region by Dutch botonist, P. J. S. Cramer in 1928. Selected from an Ethiopian landrace known as Abysinia, the descendants of these trees would go on to be i...

Conscious Caffeine #13 - Kona

13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Kona With a steady stream of moist, tropical air supplied from the Pacific Ocean, the cloud forests than span the western volcanic slopes of the Island of Hawaii produce unique soil and microclimate conditions that many consider to be produce the fin...

Conscious Caffeine #12 - Mocha

10 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Mocha While come may associate the term 'mocha' with the espresso drink made with heated milk and chocolate, the Mocha coffee variety derives its name from the legendary port city of Mokha, Yemen, from which the international coffee trade began to fl...

Conscious Caffeine #11 - Harar

10 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Harar The city of Harar, Ethiopia has been famous for its coffee since at least the 16th century; it is even rumored by some to be the former home of the legendary goat herder, Kaldi, who discovered the stimulating power of coffee after his goats ref...

Conscious Caffeine #10 - Yirgacheffe

8 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Yirgacheffe Yirgacheffe is a small district located at an elevation of around 1,900 meters above sea level within the Gedeo Zone of the southwestern Ethiopian highlands. High elevation, rich soils, and the thick vegetative cover that dominates the re...