In honor of my visit nex week to Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica, I am republishing a number of my special reports on this awesome country and its wonderful…
Arabica coffee was first discovered growing in the wild in southwestern Ethiopia somewhere between the 8th and the 12th Century and by the 14th Century coffee was known to be…
About 20 years ago when I was first starting to write about coffee I came across a magazine article that spoke of the “Super Coffee” from Zimbabwe. It was between…
The world of coffee is in crisis with over 70 percent of the land cultivated with coffee worldwide currently being in a state of partial or complete abandonment because of…
Brazil and world faces minimum 10-12 million bag loss in 2022 harvest Travelling over 2,500 kilometers overland through Brazil’s frost damaged coffee fields the utter devastation is so compounding to…
As SpillingTheBeans aka the “Indiana Jones of Coffee” is flying into Brazil for an 8-day intense field trip to survey frost damage to farms and producing regions across 65 percent…
–Veteran coffee weather forecaster Mike Palmerino CONFIRMS 4 days more frost will hit Brazil this week –Four days more frost damage could provide DEATH BLOW to Brazil coffee production for…
JULY 26 (SpillingTheBeans)–Arabica coffee futures surged as much as 18.75 cents per pound to a fresh 7-year-high of $2.2030/lb in early session Monday at the ICE exchange in New York…
–Brazil’s KEY coffee region of Cerrado in Minas Gerais state has been hit by severe frost damage –Individual coffee farms in Cerrado report as much as 40 percent of farm…
–Frost damage to Brazil Coffee regions is worst since 1978, more damage to come –Arabica coffee prices SURGE to over $2/lb as market enters panic buying to cover contracts –Latest…
My name is Maja and I’m a Danish born woman, crazy beyond passionate about everything coffee. I have written about all aspects of coffee for over 30 years from 60 coffee producing countries across the world. Welcome to my blog.
