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Green specialty coffee for home and micro roasters.

09/10/2026

For home roasters, cupping is the most honest feedback you can get. Brewing adds variables like grinder, recipe, and method. Cupping strips the away, so all you taste is the bean and your roast.

Roast the same coffee teo different ways, cup them side by side, and you will learn exactly what your changes did.

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06/10/2026

Why Red Cherries Matter (and How You Can Taste It in Your Roast)? 🍒

Coffee starts as fruit, and like any fruit, it's best when it's ripe. A coffee cherry turns from green to yellow to deep red as it matures, and in that final stage the sugars inside the fruit and the seed reach their peak. Many producers check this with a refractometer, measuring sugar content in degrees Brix, but on most farms the real tool is a trained eye and a careful hand.

The challenge is that cherries don't ripen all at once. On the same branch you'll find green, yellow, and red fruit side by side, which is why specialty coffee is picked selectively, by hand, with pickers returning to the same trees several times over the harvest. At the mill, cherries are often floated in water too: underripe and damaged fruit tends to float and gets skimmed off, while dense, ripe cherries sink and move on.

All of this effort shows up in your roaster. Underripe cherries produce underdeveloped seeds with fewer sugars and amino acids, the very compounds that drive browning during the roast. These beans stay pale while the rest of the batch turns brown, and we call them quakers. Roast a batch, spread it on a tray, and you'll spot them easily: light tan beans that taste papery, cereal-like, or like raw peanut in the cup.

Picking out quakers after roasting is one of the simplest quality steps a home roaster can take, and it makes a real difference in a light roast where off-notes have nowhere to hide. It's also a quick way to judge a lot. Few quakers in the tray means someone, thousands of kilometres away, only picked the red ones.

Do what you love! 🤎

03/10/2026

High in the Bensa woreda of Sidama, between 1,950 and 2,150 masl, around 725 smallholder farmers deliver their cherries to the Ayla washing station in Bombe kebele. Most farm organically on plots of less than two hectares, growing local landraces like Mikicho and Setami alongside the JARC 74110 and 74112 selections. At this altitude, the cherry matures slowly, and you can feel it in the green: dense, compact beans with plenty of sugar packed inside.

This lot is a natural. Ripe cherries are sorted on arrival, then spread on raised beds to dry in the sun for 15 to 18 days. They're turned constantly and covered during the hottest hours of the day and overnight, a careful rhythm that keeps fermentation clean and lets the fruit build sweetness instead of turning wild.

In the cup, you get grapefruit and peach up front, settling into cocoa and a warm nutmeg finish, with a creamy texture and gentle acidity. It works on filter and holds up beautifully as espresso.

For your roaster: this is a dense coffee with a relatively small screen size (14+), and as a natural, it carries sugar on the surface. Go easy on the heat early, let it build steadily, and keep an eye on your rate of rise around first crack. Treated gently, the fruit stays bright instead of baking into the cocoa.

Available in 1kg, 2kg and 5kg bags. Link in bio.

29/09/2026

Rwanda is coming! Stay tuned 🇷🇼🍯💥

25/09/2026

How to Store Green Coffee (and What Happens When You Don't)

You bought 5kg because the price per kilo made sense. Now it has to survive six months in your kitchen without losing what you paid for.

Green coffee is stable, but it isn't inert. The two things working against it are moisture movement and oxygen. Green beans sit around 10–12% moisture, and they'll exchange that with whatever air is around them — a humid room pushes moisture in, a dry one pulls it out, and either direction changes how the bean behaves in the drum. Too dry and it roasts faster and flatter, losing sweetness and acidity. Too damp and you're inviting mold and a musty cup long before the bag is empty.

Keep it sealed in something that actually blocks air, out of direct light, somewhere stable and cool but not cold. Room temperature in a dark cupboard beats a garage that swings twenty degrees between night and day. Don't refrigerate it — the temperature cycling and condensation do more harm than the cold does good. And leave it in the GrainPro or foil liner it arrived in if it came with one; that liner is doing real work.

What you'll taste as coffee ages past crop is a slow fade: the high, bright notes go first, acidity softens, and the cup drifts toward woody and papery. It doesn't happen overnight, and past-crop coffee isn't ruined coffee — but it's a different coffee than the one you cupped in month one, and it wants a slightly different roast to show its best.

Buy what you can roast through in a reasonable window, store it properly, and the lot you open in month five will still be close to the one you opened in month one.

Enjoy your home roasting journey! 🚀

23/09/2026

Last call for Rwanda Muhororo Natural. 🇷🇼🍷🔥

This beautiful natural lot from Muhororo Station is almost gone.

With its winey acidity, plum sweetness, apricot notes & cocoa finish, it’s been one of those coffees that’s hard to forget.

If you haven’t tried it yet, this is your moment.

Do what you love! 🤎

21/09/2026

Sourcing coffee from Kenya! 🇰🇪☕

We directly import some of the finest lots produced by smallholder farmer cooperatives across Kenya.

Specialty coffees, sourced at origin and brought straight to home and micro roasters.

Have you tried home-roasting our Kenyan coffees? 🇰🇪🔥

16/09/2026

What Is Green Coffee, and Why Start There? 🍒🚀🔥

Every roasted coffee you've ever had started as a green, dense little seed with almost no aroma and none of the flavour you're used to. That transformation — from green to roasted — is entirely in your hands once you roast at home, which is the whole appeal.

Buying green instead of roasted means you're buying time, not a finished product. Green coffee stays stable for months when stored properly, while roasted coffee starts losing character within weeks. It also means every decision about how that bean becomes coffee — roast level, development, timing — is yours to make, not a roaster's you've never met.

This is where home roasting actually starts: not with the roaster you buy, but with understanding what you're buying before it ever hits the drum.

Do what you love! 🤎

14/09/2026

Sumatra Orang Utan 🦧🍒🌋

This one is grown in the Gayo Highlands of Central Aceh, on volcanic soil between 1,300 and 1,600 masl, by smallholder farmers working the edge of Sumatra's rainforest. The cultivars are Tim Tim and Ateng — varieties suited to this specific microclimate, where near-constant humidity and only a few hours of direct sun a day shape how the coffee has to be processed.

That's where Giling Basah comes in — wet hulling, the method that gives Sumatran coffee its signature heavy body and low acidity. Cherries are pulped by hand the same day they're picked, then left to ferment overnight in sacks. But unlike washed coffee, the parchment is hulled off while the bean is still wet, sitting at a much higher moisture content than usual, before a second, shorter drying period out in the open. It's a process built out of necessity — farmers here don't have the space or the sun hours for slow, patio-dried parchment — and it's what gives the cup its dense, earthy character.

The rainforest surrounding these farms is also home to the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, increasingly squeezed by palm oil expansion. We work only with cooperatives that protect this habitat as part of their livelihood, and 1% of what we earn on this lot goes directly to orangutan conservation.

Rich, earthy, full-bodied — this is a coffee that rewards a bolder roast and stands up to milk if that's your thing.

Enjoy your home roasting journey! 🚀

04/09/2026

Do what you love! 🤎

If coffee is your passion, take it to the next level in your life. When brewing isn't enough, roasting at home is the next step, and maybe it will become your profession. 😎

That's what our motto means: if you really love coffee, do what you love and become a roaster. 💥

This is your life and nothing else matters. 🔥➡☕

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