Steampunk Coffee Blog

Discover Ethiopian Coffee Grown in South America

Discover Ethiopian Coffee Grown in South America

(Jose Herman Salazar (left) and Simon Brown & Merlith Cruz's farm, Las Etíopes (right))   By Rachel Beebe   The exciting thing about working in specialty coffee is that things...

Discover Ethiopian Coffee Grown in South America

(Jose Herman Salazar (left) and Simon Brown & Merlith Cruz's farm, Las Etíopes (right))   By Rachel Beebe   The exciting thing about working in specialty coffee is that things...

Importer Focus Series #4 // Kar Yee Kar Yee Cheung & Stewart Hamilton-Deans at Karst Organics

Importer Focus Series #4 // Kar Yee Kar Yee Che...

Kar Yee and Stewart are the husband and wife team behind Karst Organics, a micro importer focusing solely on coffee grown in Timor-Leste. Ludwika and I first tasted their coffee...

Importer Focus Series #4 // Kar Yee Kar Yee Che...

Kar Yee and Stewart are the husband and wife team behind Karst Organics, a micro importer focusing solely on coffee grown in Timor-Leste. Ludwika and I first tasted their coffee...

Importer Focus Series #3 // Shirani Gunawardena & Christian Steenberg at Indochina Coffee

Importer Focus Series #3 // Shirani Gunawardena...

Steampunk has been buying coffee from Shirani Gunawardena and Christian Steenberg of Indochina Coffee since 2021. We first tasted their coffee at the recommendation of James Wilkinson, co-founder of Omwani Coffee,...

Importer Focus Series #3 // Shirani Gunawardena...

Steampunk has been buying coffee from Shirani Gunawardena and Christian Steenberg of Indochina Coffee since 2021. We first tasted their coffee at the recommendation of James Wilkinson, co-founder of Omwani Coffee,...

Behind The Scenes: How do Coffees Get Their Names?

Behind The Scenes: How do Coffees Get Their Names?

By Rachel Beebe   As Rumplstiltskin taught us, names are powerful things, but they’re especially powerful in specialty coffee, which prides itself on transparency. In a transparent world, the name...

Behind The Scenes: How do Coffees Get Their Names?

By Rachel Beebe   As Rumplstiltskin taught us, names are powerful things, but they’re especially powerful in specialty coffee, which prides itself on transparency. In a transparent world, the name...

Importer Focus Series #2 // Javier Gutierrez at Caribbean Goods

Importer Focus Series #2 // Javier Gutierrez at...

(Photo above is of Javier (centre) with the president (left) and vice president (right) of Tajumuco Cooperative.)   To continue our series about the importers that bring us coffee, we’re...

Importer Focus Series #2 // Javier Gutierrez at...

(Photo above is of Javier (centre) with the president (left) and vice president (right) of Tajumuco Cooperative.)   To continue our series about the importers that bring us coffee, we’re...

There’s a lot to love about Maracaturra...

There’s a lot to love about Maracaturra...

By Rachel Beebe   This winter we’re roasting our first ever Maracaturra variety coffee, grown in Nicaragua by Martha and Ana Albir. We chose this lot to be our Christmas...

There’s a lot to love about Maracaturra...

By Rachel Beebe   This winter we’re roasting our first ever Maracaturra variety coffee, grown in Nicaragua by Martha and Ana Albir. We chose this lot to be our Christmas...