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Restaurant Coffee

Restaurant Coffee

Both Mike and I have backgrounds in the coffee industry. I worked in restaurants for 10 years, and Mike worked in them for 15. It is very much a pa...
What is Direct Trade Coffee

What is Direct Trade Coffee

I recently received an email from a man asking why we price our coffee the way we do. He told me that his wife wasn't buying the idea that purchasi...
What's in a name?

What's in a name?

By Alicia Love, Denali & Juneau -The original Coffee Labs.   The name for Coffee Labs came to us in winter of 2001,when the idea of a coffee ho...
Tanzania

Tanzania

  The last leg of my African journey was to Tanzania. I arrived in Dar Saleem airport and I could feel how much bigger this country was than Rwa...
Rwanda is Nothing Like You Think it is!

Rwanda is Nothing Like You Think it is!

Rwanda is nothing like most of think. Maybe we think of Diane Fossie and Gorillas in the Mist. Of course many of us probably think of the genocide....
Leaving Burundi

Leaving Burundi

By Alicia Love, As I sit here in the airport after leave Burundi after only being here three days, it definitely was not enough time! It was enough...
Milk and Sugar With That Coffee??

Milk and Sugar With That Coffee??

By Alicia Love, Some coffee purists say that you should only drink coffee black. This is apparently in order to taste "the way it was naturally mea...
Honduras Finca Liquidambar

Honduras Finca Liquidambar

By Alicia Love, When I first started in the specialty coffee industry about 6 years ago, the term "direct trade" was all anyone was talking about. ...