Jennifer Poole

Impact wants Medellín to be the centre of specialty coffee

A group of businesses operating within the Colombian specialty coffee industry have announced the launch of Impact, an incubator and collective aimed at helping Medellín become a hub for specialty coffee.

Business

Harnessing the innovation of carbonic maceration in coffee

Carbonic maceration is undoubtedly having a moment within the specialty coffee industry. Borrowed from the wine world, carbonic maceration is a fermentation process that can have a significant impact on flavour development, as Jennifer Poole, co-founder of Those Coffee People, explains in this week’s guest blog.

Blending, roasting & processing

Analysing Colombia’s internal coffee market price and the new Stabilization Fund

Colombia made history back in February when it officially launched the Coffee Price Stabilization Fund. The fund will aid the country’s smallholders who had been severely impacted by the commodity price collapse over the last few years, but the fund has a broader ambition than just propping up prices when commodity markets are low.

Business, Origins