Should You Drink Coffee Black?
Should you drink coffee black, with no sugar? Or should a person feel free to add whatever ingredients they want to coffee?
5 Tips to Learn Latin American Spanish FASTER and EASIER
You work with coffee in Latin America and need to communicate with coffee growers or others in the industry. How can you learn Spanish faster and easier?
What is a Coffee Variety and What You Need to Know About Them
You walk into a specialty coffee shop to buy that spectacular coffee for your morning mug. What should be a simple decision – which delicious coffee to buy – becomes more complex as soon as the barista opens her mouth. “We have a Bourbon variety that is out of this world.” Out of this world. That sounds good to you. But what is a variety and why are they calling coffee Bourbon? Is there whiskey in it? What in the world is a coffee variety and more importantly, why should you care?
Ask a Colombian Coffee Expert
When people find out I’m a coffee educator – I teach coffee at a university in Bogota, I wrote a book about specialty coffee in Colombia, and every week I teach visitors about why coffee in Colombia is so important to the country – they invariably ask me a question about coffee. It seems like everyone is filled with coffee questions they’ve never received an answer to, and they love to be face to face with an expert to get their itch for knowledge fulfilled.
What is the Secret of Colombia’s Happiness?
“Why do you love coffee?” I was in one of Bogota best specialty coffee shops. Light came streaming in the café on that sunny Bogota morning, and the intoxicating smell of freshly ground coffee made us all a bit dizzy. The tour guests crowded in to catch the barista’s answer to my question. Over the sounds of coffee cups clinking against saucers and the typical chatter of a busy cafe, the barista thought for a few seconds before answering. And what an answer he gave!