Myanmar Myanmar has only recently started making Specialty Coffee, but has quickly developed into a player with impressive results. The Hopong cooperative was able to organize coffee farmers from two villages in just one year. They jointly produced their first crop of “natural” coffee and they managed to export the coffee, thanks in part to […]
This year we were able to buy the entire harvest of Sthefania Muñoz. She produced 3 bags of green beans of 35 kg each. Sthefania is 15 years old and received a small part of the plantation from her father to take care of and maintain this. She is in the last year of “high […]
Our importer for this fair trade coffee is This Side Up. They work together with Capricornio. The founders of Capricornio had the idea to start producing Paraná specialty coffee in their home state. Because Paraná is located under Tropic Capricorn (Tropic Capricorn) at 23º south latitude, hardly anyone believed that good coffee could come from […]
Tea museum Kandy In January 2020 we were looking for loose tea in Sri Lanka. As soon as we got to Kandy, we already saw tea fields. It looked great. Near Kandy, there is a tea museum. Here they tell everything about the way they make tea in Sri Lanka. We were the only […]
Coffee at risk Our coffee is at risk due to climate change, low yields, diseases and because coffee producers cannot get good coffee plants. This also means the livelihood of coffee farmers is lost About 70% of the coffee that is produced is Arabica coffee. 18ºC to 21ºC is the optimum temperature for this variety. […]
When it is getting cold outside, Hot chocolate is a very good idea!. This is why we make our Hot Chocolate from Tase Chocolate. We add a cinnamon stick, star anise and Taza Chili Chocolate. Experiment with other spices or different Taza Chocolates. INGREDIENTS: 240 ml milk (we use full organic milk, but you can […]
Ice Tea You probably know ice tea. The one that you get in a bottle, with flavours, sugar and a list of other things. Did you know that you can make Ice Tea yourself? Often you will make hot tea, and cool that down, add some ice and you will have Ice Tea. This one […]
Every tea has its own temperature and brewing time. On top of that, everyone has a different taste, so the temperature and brewing time will be different for every person. We experiment with temperature and time and when we find the (for us right) recipe, we put it on the tea tin so we won’t […]
In this blog we talk about tea processing methods. (for sure we are not complete) White tea is a special type of tea that until recently was only produced in China, nowadays white tea comes from countries such as India, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The picking of the white tea is always manual and only […]
It starts with a good quality coffee bean that is planted at the right time and the right place to produce a quality coffee. Like wine, where you speak of terroir, you’ll have the same with coffee, every region, soil, climate, the variety of coffee gives a different flavour to the coffee. After 3 to […]
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