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Bangalore (August 6, 2010) – Kaapi Royale Coffee announces the January 2011 return of our annual origin tour to India’s exotic coffee growing regions for coffee professionals, this year adding Coorg to an expanded 5-day itinerary. The event begins on Tuesday, January 11th in Bangalore with a welcome reception at the Bangalore Club, a grand [...]

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On the SCAE Guest Blog, intrepid origin tour leader Colin Smith adds his comments and introduction to the complete Cafe Europa account of our origin trip in Hawaii last year. You may have already read my summary of the tour back in November, but the Cafe Europa article goes into much more detail and includes [...]

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The Specialty Coffee Association of Europe released their full account of the group origin trip to Hawaii Island earlier this year. You can read it on the SCAE website. …and just in case you missed it, be sure to read my own account of the trip from November.

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From October 26 – October 30, 2009 I was honored to be the Hawaii Island coffee tour guide for a group of coffee professionals representing the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe, who visited Hawaii as their annual origin tour destination. For one week, the group of roasters and writers visited a variety of coffee businesses [...]

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It has been brought to my attention that a few people have had to drop out from the planned SCAE origin tour to Hawaii later this month (I think mostly due to HOST in Milan), so they would like to offer that other coffee professionals are also welcome to attend. We have an excellent negotiated [...]

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