Rosso Journal

Late Saturday evening we arrived in Guatemala, straight from Ottawa where we competed in the Eastern Barista Qualifiers - we're happy to say we won first prize. You can read about our experience here.The plan for this trip to Guatemala...

I'm on a 4am flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong as I write this summary to our first trip to Myanmar. I'd like to sleep, but I have a theory that staying up on this flight will help me acclimate...

It's our second night in Myanmar and we've just arrived at Hotel Pinlaung Resort (the lack of warm water, the false advertising on free wifi and the astroturf carpet has us hesitant on the resort portion) for our accommodations for...

On Friday, we left Poços de Caldas to go to an even smaller town called, São Lourenço, because the Brazilian National Barista Competition was happening over the weekend. Lucky for us, we had the opportunity to meet some of the...

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...

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...