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New project at Finca Tamana in Colombia
I am writing from my hotel room in Garzon after a long day at Finca Tamana in Pital, Huila, Colombia. I am going to spend a week here to work at the farm. Finca Tamana is a 60 Hectar farm, that my...
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Finca Tamana part 2. Improving Cherry selection.
I spent the whole Monday and Tuesday morning at Finca Tamana this week. The goal was to train the pickers to do a better job as well as documenting the extra spending and to see if the pickers actually...
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Finca Tamana, part 3. Meeting with the pickers.
Yesterday we had a meeting with the pickers at Finca Tamana to listen to their experience so far after 3 days of using the new picking techniques. Although they had gotten a lot better and the cherry...
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Finca Tamana, Part 4. Improving Processing
After 4 days at Finca Tamana, I had to leave early morning on Friday to catch a plane from Neiva to Bogota. It turned out Avianca had cancelled my ticket, since I did not use my ticket from Bogota to...
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Finca Tamana, Part 5. Drying coffee.
The only reason we have not bought any Colombian coffee for the past 2 years is that the coffee tends to fade very fast. We bought some bags 2-3 years ago that faded and tasted woody after only a month...
View ArticleNordic barista Cup Lectures
For those of you who missed out on the fantastic Nordic Barista Cup in Compenhagen this year, you can see all the lectures here. The name of the event is a bit misleading. Although there is a team...
View ArticleWorking at Finca Tamana
I am spending the week at Finca Tamana to help improve the quality of the coffee with Don Elias Roa. We just recieved the coffee from the June harvest and that will be for sale in early December. In...
View ArticleCoffee is cheap
Nothing frustrates me more than people complaining about coffee being expensive. The fact of the matter, is that coffee is extremely cheap if you start looking at the amount of labour and how many...
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Coffee is cheap, part 2
I would like to follow up on the previous post where I wrote that coffee is too cheap. As stated, I think the reason why people still think coffee is too expensive is because of a lack of knowledge....
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New crop coming in
Finally the new coffees from the 2013 crop is starting to arrive. Apart from the delicious Tekangu that arrived a month ago, we are now starting to sell some shade dried coffees from the farm Los...
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