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[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Introduction” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ background_layout=”light”] Coffee 101: Costa Rica<\/strong> Sourcing: Kenya<\/strong> Sourcing: Mexico\/Guatemala<\/strong> Sourcing: Costa Rica<\/strong> Sourcing: Costa Rica<\/strong> Coffee Auctions: Chalatenango Best Cup\u00a0Discovery<\/em><\/strong> Sourcing: Colombia<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a new year, a new crop, and a whole new selection of opportunities to shrink the distance between your roaster\u2019s hopper and coffee\u2019s source. We at Cafe Imports would like nothing more than to have you join us on our travels into the field (literally) as we seek, study, cup, and source the world\u2019s finest specialty coffees. Throughout the year, we gladly invite our roaster partners along on visits to the producers, mills, and exporters with whom we work year in and year out, to develop personal connections and long-standing relationships, and, of course, to bring home the most delicious coffees we can find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":27876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,240,142,9,8,14,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-education","category-el-salvador","category-ethiopia","category-guatemala","category-mexico","category-origins"],"site_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt\u2019s a new year, a new crop, and a whole new selection of opportunities to shrink the distance between your roaster\u2019s hopper and coffee\u2019s source.<\/strong> We at Cafe Imports would like nothing more than to have you join us on our travels into the field (literally) as we seek, study, cup, and source the world\u2019s finest specialty coffees. Throughout the year, we gladly invite our roaster partners along on visits to the producers, mills, and exporters with whom we work year in and year out, to develop personal connections and long-standing relationships, and, of course, to bring home the most delicious coffees we can find.
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\nSourcing <\/strong><\/a>trips make up the bulk of our travel this year and every year, as we spend several days in cupping labs, visiting farms, and speaking directly with producers and exporters about the year\u2019s harvest and what is available for purchase. Experience is not required to attend these trips, but they are designed around roasters\u2019 intent to identify and pre-book coffees for their upcoming menus.
\nCoffee 101<\/strong><\/a> is open to any student of coffee who is curious, committed, and learns by doing. Brand-new baristas and seasoned roasters alike come away from this trip with new information, insight, and context for coffee production, and we see and taste the entire process up close and personal. No experience necessary; purchasing coffee is not a primary focus, but there will be opportunities to identify and contract lots.
\nCoffee Auctions <\/strong><\/a>are also on the horizon for this year, and we\u2019ll start the auction season with an exploratory trip to El Salvador, in the interest of developing a cupping competition and auction with a group of smallholder producers with whom we have partnered in Chalatenango. This will be our first time pursuing this type of experience in El Salvador, and we\u2019d love to bring a large group of roasters along to build enthusiasm and provide support for the event, which has the potential of directly affecting and improving the lives and the coffees of several dozen farmers.
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\nVisit cafeimports.com\/resource<\/a> for more information about the individual trips, and to learn how to reserve your spot in any or all of these upcoming opportunities abroad.<\/strong> We look forward to traveling with you!<\/strong><\/em>
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Cafe_Imports_Resource_Logo_2018.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Trips and dates” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ background_layout=”light” header_font=”Raleway||||||||”]<\/p>\nFirst Semester 2018 Resource trips<\/h1>\n
\nFebruary 5\u20139<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 4\u201310<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 26\u2013March 2<\/p>\n
\nMarch 5\u20139<\/p>\n
\nMarch 19\u201323<\/p>\n
\nApril 2\u20136<\/p>\n
\nJune 2018 (Dates TBA<\/em>)<\/p>\n