Have you ever heard of cascara? Don’t worry. A lot of people haven’t. Cascara is the cherry shell that coffee beans are nestled in. We often forget that coffee is not a bean at all, but a seed. A seed that resides like many others, inside the carapace of a fruit. Perhaps due to More»
We’re going to The Big Central 2015 Barista and Brewers Competition!
Since the birth of our company, Halfwit Coffee Roasters has participated in The Big Central Barista and Brewers Competition. This year we’re introducing our beloved Andreas Willhoff into the Brewer’s Cup. Andreas was with our company for a hazy summer in 2013 and came back this year to pursue a life of coffee. Andreas is More»
Finca Consolapan Owner’s Success Lies in Coffee Caregiving.
The following interview took place between May 29th and June 15th, 2014, via email, and translated via Google Translate with some additional formatting changes from Andrea Otte, Halfwit Coffee Roaster’s Director of Coffee , who also conducted the interview. This past February our Director of Operations, Stevie Baka, and myself traveled to Mexico to learn More»
Stevie and Otter Go To Mexico
Written by Andrea “Otter”, Director of Coffee Earlier this month, myself and Stevie Baka, our Director of Operations, spent ten days exploring the south of Mexico, learning about coffee and meeting new friends. Joined by several leading coffee professionals and hosted by our parters at Cafe Imports, our group visited nearly a dozen farms, at least as many processing More»
Halfwit Coffee In Colombia
From Andrea Otte, Director of Coffee While October still had all its leaves, I was boarding a plane to Bogotá, Colombia for an opportunity to meet with producers in one of the most diverse coffee growing landscapes on the planet. The trip was arranged through one of our importing partners, Castle and Company, who work More»
The El Salvador Story, Year One
Before we can roast great coffee for you we first have to curate the raw product. There are a number of logistics and relationships necessary to accomplish this, as well as many different paths coffee roasters can go down in accomplishing what we call coffee sourcing. For our young company coming up on our first More»
