Sweet Maria's

Before you dive into roasting your set for next weekend's Fermentation Project global cupping, let us give you some notes! In particular, wa…

Coffee mills come to life at night, when all the coffee jeri has arrived at the mill and is ready to run through the pulper and start fermen…

We rarely ever let people upstairs, so here's your chance! Check out our video tour of the Sweet Maria's cupping room, where we go through p…

#repost 🍒 On a trip to Rwanda, at Mugonero washing station, Thompson encountered coffee cherries that were left in sacks for 3 days, while …

What does freshly roasted *commercial* coffee taste like? 💭 We can finally show and tell you! Check out Thompson taste test a wild batch of…

#repost 🍿 Here's a clip from an old livestream on air roasters! Thompson introduces you to the machine that inspired our own roasters, and …

After first crack, coffee goes fast! 💨 It gets lighter in weight and darker in roast quickly, the actual pace of which depends on what kin…

There is a lot of labor that goes into ensuring the Burundi coffee that lands in your home roaster is of great quality. These are just the s…

Got a little bit of that Ethiopian roast left, but not enough to do a full batch? Try mixing it with another roast you're trying to get rid …

The Ugandan Alpha coffee is full of defects, so why does it matter to us? We're spoiled by great, unique specialty coffees from around the w…

Some highlights from the coffee harvest, visiting farms the last few days in Burundi. #burundicoffee #coffeefarmers

Here's a quick recap of a new-old home roasting tool we recently got! It's the Unimax Micro Roaster Brewer 585si, an automatic 3-in-1 roaste…

#repost 🏓 Surely there are better ways to remove parchment from green coffee when you don't have a huller, but here are the three methods w…

Many home roasters who feel ready to move on from their air roaster might consider a drum roaster like the Gene Cafe CBR-101. In this case, …

When roasting at home, you sometimes have to adjust other variables to get the results you want. But the StovePop is rarely like that! It's …

Thompson came across Wilkins and Wontkins in a coffee book from the 1950s. These early Muppets by Jim Henson were developed for these over t…

The StovePop's strength is in its simplicity! Made of sturdy stainless steel, which retains heat well, it allows you to get as close as poss…

"That's the thing with coffee. It's all brown." (And you heard that here first.) It's hard to pinpoint exactly what roast level you're at by…

Kenya's wet processing is unique to the region, the result of a need to slow down to avoid crowding drying beds and efficiently manage labor…

The manual stovetop popcorn popper is a simple and straightforward way to roast coffee. As expected, it roasts up to a full pound of coffee,…

We have a great selection of green coffee from Rwanda and Burundi at the moment! If you're unfamiliar with the profiles these regions offer,…

Instant coffee may exist, but coffee itself is far from instant! ⏱️ It takes several years for the plants (or stumped trees) to produce coff…

"The tradition of great Kenya coffee comes from small farmers and cooperatives." ☕️ Well, that's what we believe! We benefit greatly from ch…

Kenya coffee grades 101 💡 Kenya coffee has an elaborate grading system to determine the value of coffee in the country; as a result, the va…