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Single Origin vs. Blend: What Your Coffee Bag Isn’t Telling You

Most people assume single origins and blends are just two styles of coffee. They’re actually two different approaches. And depending on who’s roasting, one of them is a lot more transparent than the other. What single origin means A single origin coffee comes from one defined place: a country, a region, sometimes a single farm. That specificity matters because where a coffee grows shapes how it tastes. An Ethiopian coffee can carry wild, almost jammy fruit notes like blueberry and jasmine that you simply won’t find anywhere else. A Sulawesi brings a full, earthy depth rooted in its volcanic soil

What Makes Indonesian Coffee So Full-Bodied?

Indonesian coffee tastes different Indonesian coffees are known for their full body. Compared with many African or Latin American coffees, they often have lower acidity, with earthy or herbal notes that give them a unique character. The wet-hulled process A big part of that character comes from a method called giling basah, or wet-hulled processing. After harvesting, the beans are pulped and partially fermented, then dried to about 30-35% moisture before the hull is then removed. They’re dried again to reach stability. This careful, largely Indonesian method produces beans with depth and complexity. Both Sumatra and Sulawesi coffees use wet-hulling, 

Finding Specialty Coffee in America

1984 to February 12, 1986 I learned many things while working at Saks Fifth Avenue during the first six years after college. The most important lesson and the one I carried with me into starting my own business was simple. Selling a best-quality product was easier for me than selling something average. That meant that for what was then only an idea of a new business, I had to offer the very best. That became my bedrock principle, guiding every decision along the way. And it still rings true today. What was the best-quality coffee? I had no experience in

Why We Roast Our Own Coffee — And Why It Matters to You

At Oren’s Coffee, roasting isn’t just a step in the process; it’s where coffee goes from good to genuinely memorable. We roast our own beans because it gives us control over freshness, flavor development, and consistency. These are three things that matter deeply to people who care about what’s in their cup. That control starts and ends with Oren. Why Roasting Matters for Your Cup Coffee doesn’t taste like much straight from green beans. Roasting transforms it, unlocking the oils and aromas that give great coffee its character, making it vibrant, nuanced, and enjoyable. But not all roasting is created

How Coffee Processing Affects Flavor

Today I would like to tell you a little about coffee preparation at origin.  There are two major (and some minor) processes to get the fresh coffee cherry to the exportable ‘green’ stage.  One is called Washed and the other is called Natural or Dry process.  There are also, currently, about a dozen other new preparations done with or without oxygen, with different microbes, different temperatures, and more.  Mostly these processes are confined to very small quantities of from just ten to a couple of hundred pounds.  We won’t be concerned with these for the moment (if ever).  The Washed

How a Severe Frost in Brazil Catalyzed Specialty Coffee Today

When there were 5 consecutive nights of very cold weather in August of 1975, it not only killed the coffee cherries (where our coffee beans come from) but it also killed the leaves and even the coffee trees themselves. This caused not only an immediate shortfall of coffee but a shortage for years to come as it takes new coffee trees 3 to 5 years to be productive. This became known in the world of coffee as the Black Frost of ’75.

Why I Roast My Own Coffee

It was 1979 and I was working at Saks Fifth Avenue. I had already decided that working corporate wasn’t for me…

What is your favorite coffee?

I have been asked that question countless times since we opened in February of 1986. And I always have to qualify my answers. Are we talking about my favorite coffee of all time? Or my favorite coffee this season? My favorite type of process of the coffee? My favorite characteristics? What?

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