• Poços de Caldas

    Poços de Caldas

    On Sunday, August 20th we land in Brazil for the first time in our coffee careers. For those that don't know, Brazil is the largest exporter of coffee in the world, shipping nearly 6 billion pounds in 2016. Nearly doubling...

  • Milk Temperature

    Milk Temperature

    Milk temperature has been an age old debate amongst baristas and coffee drinkers. We've decided, we're going to standardize all our milk temperatures and attempt to put this debate to rest. This is the language we've come up with for...

  • Sorwathe Tea + Bumbogo Station

    Sorwathe Tea + Bumbogo Station

    Today we took a bit of a different road and rather than touring a coffee station, we visited Sorwathe Tea Factory. At least for the morning. We took the same road north, toward Ruhengeri, that we did on Monday when...

  • Kilimbi

    Kilimbi

    What a beautiful coffee station. This was the first station that MTCo built here in Rwanda.As I write this, we're been an hour or so on the road after leaving Kilimbi. I'm the only one in the car who's awake, other...

  • Rugali

    Rugali

    We spent yesterday driving from Kigali to Nyamasheke, which sits on the Western side of Rwanda. According to the map, it's not a far distance, but thanks to Rwanda being 'the Land of a Thousand Hills' it took five hours...

  • Shyira Washing Station and Vunga Cooperative

    Shyira Washing Station and Vunga Cooperative

    Today, we hit the road nice and early, bound for the North Western part of Rwanda, specifically near a town called Ruhengeri. This region is most famous for Mountain Gorillas, and sees a decent amount of tourism through this.When we...