Costa Rica Archives

Tasting: Costa Rica Cafetalera Herbazu

by deCadmus | Aug 22, 2011 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews, Coffee Roasting

…lovely, very intense, salted caramel sort of fragrance that I used to associate with great Indonesian lots years ago before they all started to taste like mulch and wood moss.

Tasting Square Mile Coffees

by deCadmus | Oct 12, 2008 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews, Featured

Let’s face it. Right now the folks at Square Mile — Stephen Morrissey, James Hoffmann and Annette Moldvaer1 — could phone it in. They could source dubious coffees, call them edgy, describe them cryptically while lavishing them with praise… and...

C.A.F.E. Through Rose-Colored Glasses

by deCadmus | Mar 30, 2008 | Coffee

It’s hard to peer into Starbucks’ notoriously opaque coffee sourcing standards. In a Sunday article in the Seattle Times — Changing the Way Costa Rican Farmers Grow Coffee – and Live — writer Manuel Valdes offers a glimpse, through the...

Wanted: Adventurous Travelers for Coffee Kids Costa Rica Trip

by deCadmus | Aug 8, 2007 | Coffee

Ever thought about what it *really* takes to get coffee from seed to cup? What life is like in a coffee-growing community? There’s really only one way to learn… make a trip to origin! Coffee Kids — by any measure, a terrific non-profit group that...

Congrats to the World Barista Champion

by deCadmus | Aug 3, 2007 | Coffee

Congratulations to James Hoffman (whom you may know as Jim Seven (that’s his blog in the list down yonder) on capturing the top honors at the World Barista Championship in Tokyo. His performance was — in a word — artistic. Poised, relaxed — or...

Tasting: Santa Elena Tarrazu Miel

by deCadmus | Nov 5, 2003 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews

Rating: [rating:4/5] Coffee is a fruit, you know… Sipping the cup in front of me, this simple truth is underlined. The cup is lush, heavily fruited with black cherry, and reveals a sweet tobacco finish. Oh… and it’s from Costa Rica. The coffee is...