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Treating everyone on the coffee supply chain well: Our first Authenticity Report

Melanie Mazza

May 2, 2017 by Melanie Mazza

Treating everyone on the coffee supply chain well: Our first Authenticity Report

We are on a mission to promote authenticity, transparency, and sustainability throughout the coffee supply chain. In that vein, we are proud to be publishing our first annual Authenticity Report. This report synthesizes data regarding our direct and relationship trade coffee and our efforts to create a professional work environment […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Business Updates, Coffee Buying, In the News, Roastery, Team News Tagged With: #specialtycoffee, authenticity, coffee, Coffee Buying, coffee supply chain, direct trade, Facing the Future, Seattle Coffee Works, specialty coffee, sustainability, trading practices

Join Our Team as a Roastery Operations Specialist

Cassandra James

April 13, 2017 by Cassandra James

Join Our Team as a Roastery Operations Specialist

At Seattle Coffee Works we are looking for a new ROASTERY OPERATIONS SPECIALIST The mission of the Roastery Operations Specialist is to enable outstanding coffee experiences by expediting freshly roasted artisan coffee to our cafe, mail-order, and wholesale customers in a timely, accurate and professional manner. Status: Hourly, part-time. Wage: $13 […]

Filed Under: Career Opportunities, Roastery Tagged With: career opportunities, coffee, Coffee Roasting, part time, production, roasting operations, Seattle, seattle coffee

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part four

Cassandra James

December 9, 2016 by Cassandra James

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part four

We arrived at Finca Rosma after three days of visiting coffee farms. After a two hour drive in a rickety van up a narrow mountain road, we finally arrived at a town square at the top of the mountain. It was other-wordly and completely empty. We visited the local store, […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, Coffee Making, In the News, Team News Tagged With: coffee, coffee origin, Finca Rosma, Green coffee, specialty coffee

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part Three

Cassandra James

November 20, 2016 by Cassandra James

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part Three

Finca Nueva Armenia Visiting Guatemala Finca Nueva Armenia was eye opening to the potentials of environmentally conscious coffee farming. Jorge & Javier Recinos, both environmental engineers were amazing hosts and walked us through their entire facility. Among many features of the farm we had the opportunity to see their nursery, […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, In the News, Team News Tagged With: coffee, Coffee Buying, coffee seeds, direct trade, Green coffee, guatemala

TDS or Total BS?

Jake Donaghy

November 10, 2016 by Jake Donaghy

TDS or Total BS?

Wine, Coffee, and Science Wine is a 300 billion dollar a year industry. From farming to consumption, coopers, oenologists, viticulturists, sommeliers, and countless others have devoted their lives to studying wine to an exact science, all for the purpose of improving quality and taste. Throughout history, championed as one of […]

Filed Under: Coffee Making, Roastery Tagged With: brewed coffee, coffee science, Espresso, extraction, making coffee better, Refractometry, tds, third wave coffee, total dissolved solids, vst

A Tribute to Don Heleodoro Villatoro

Pipo Bui

November 1, 2016 by Pipo Bui

A Tribute to Don Heleodoro Villatoro

Yesterday, we heard the news that Don Heleodoro de Jesús Villatoro Lopez, the founder of Finca La Esperanza, passed away this weekend. Our condolences go to his family and friends, especially his wife Helena de Jesús Castillo Rosinos and their twelve children. Don Heleodoro has inspired many of us at […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, In the News Tagged With: Business Updates, Coffee Buying, direct trade, guatemala, single origin

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part Two

Cassandra James

October 31, 2016 by Cassandra James

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part Two

Guatemala La Esperanza: The farm of Guatemala La Esperanza is unlike any place I had been before. After a two hour ride in the back of a truck with eight of my trip-mates we finally arrived at the center of the village Hoja Blanca, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, in which Guatemala La […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, Roastery, Team News Tagged With: coffee, Coffee Buying, direct trade, guatemala, Seattle Coffee Works, single origin

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part One

Cassandra James

October 23, 2016 by Cassandra James

Guatemala 2016-A Firsthand Account of the Trip-Part One

Getting There: As most of our experiments begin we met at our downtown café. All geared up & ready for our adventure we crowded onto the Link train to the Sea-Tac Airport. We stopped over in NYC for a short six hour coffee crawl. We sipped our way through some […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, In the News, Roastery

Yirgacheffe Washing Stations Destroyed

Sebastian Simsch

October 18, 2016 by Sebastian Simsch

Yirgacheffe Washing Stations Destroyed

  Even before the flight to Ethiopia for this season’s visit to our coffee partners there, I was apprehensive about the country’s current political situation. Ethiopia has long been governed by an authoritarian regime providing stability to an otherwise unstable region (Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Yemen are all directly neighboring […]

Filed Under: Business Partners, Coffee Buying, In the News, Roastery Tagged With: Coffee Buying, direct trade, ethiopia, yirgacheffe

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