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Mount Kenya peak and highland landscape

Kenya and the SL28

A 1930s research lab. Two cultivars. A washing process unlike anywhere else. Why Kenya tastes like Kenya — and nothing else.

Kenya and the SL28

A 1930s research lab. Two cultivars. A washing process unlike anywhere else. Why Kenya tastes like Kenya — and nothing else.

Cloud forest on the slopes of Volcan Baru, Panama

Panama and the Geisha

One varietal made Panama famous. Here's the story of Geisha — from an Ethiopian forest to a 2004 cupping table that redrew the map of specialty coffee.

Panama and the Geisha

One varietal made Panama famous. Here's the story of Geisha — from an Ethiopian forest to a 2004 cupping table that redrew the map of specialty coffee.

Green highlands of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: where coffee began

The only country in the world where coffee grows wild. Yirgacheffe, Sidamo, Guji — and the genetics nobody has fully catalogued.

Ethiopia: where coffee began

The only country in the world where coffee grows wild. Yirgacheffe, Sidamo, Guji — and the genetics nobody has fully catalogued.

Colombian coffee valley at altitude

Colombia: a coffee map

Pink Bourbon, Sidra, Wush Wush. The Colombian renaissance and what's making the country's specialty coffee genuinely exciting again.

Colombia: a coffee map

Pink Bourbon, Sidra, Wush Wush. The Colombian renaissance and what's making the country's specialty coffee genuinely exciting again.

Freshly roasted coffee beans glowing in the drum of a roaster

Why fresh roast matters

Coffee is alive in a way most people don't realize. Here's the chemistry of why — and why we ship within 48 hours.

Why fresh roast matters

Coffee is alive in a way most people don't realize. Here's the chemistry of why — and why we ship within 48 hours.

Rare coffee cherries — varied ripeness, a hand cupping a small pile

The hunt for rare varieties

Why we built ESPRĒN around the coffees most roasters won't bother with — and what "rare" actually means in a cup.

The hunt for rare varieties

Why we built ESPRĒN around the coffees most roasters won't bother with — and what "rare" actually means in a cup.