coffee business strategies

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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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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We are pleased to announce that the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s annual origin tour is coming to the Island of Hawaii for the first time ever this October 26-31st, organized and led by Andrew Hetzel of Cafemakers (Kamuela) and author of The Hawaii Coffee Book, Dr. Shawn Steiman of Coffea Consulting (Honolulu). Approximately 20 [...]

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Friend and colleague Dr. Shawn Steiman, PhD serves up an insightful overview of Hawaii’s coffees and makes a few recipe suggestions for cooking with coffee in today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper. From the Honolulu Star Bulletin: Coffee has become big business in Hawaii. Eleven regions on five islands house some 830 farms statewide. This is [...]

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The poster to a coffee discussion group this morning asks (I paraphrase) “I recently purchased some green coffee from Maui and Kauai; the beans are much smaller than from Kona. Are the the coffees from Maui and Kauai different than the better known origin of Kona, and are they inferior?” My response: Coffees from each [...]

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