Ad Lucem | A Journal of Coffee Illumination
I joined Intelligentsia just over 18 months ago because I thought it had the best sourcing program in the business, and still some room for […]
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Ad Lucem | A Journal of Coffee Illumination
I joined Intelligentsia just over 18 months ago because I thought it had the best sourcing program in the business, and still some room for […]
Introducing Flor de Março
Today we celebrate the inaugural releases of two single-origin coffees: our Port of Mokha Al-Jabal Yemen Special Selection and our Flor de Março Brazil Limited Release. […]
A most improbable coffee
We introduced you a few weeks ago here to the impossible-but-true story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali and his Quixotic quest to bring the ancient art of Yemeni coffee […]
Musings on The Monk of Mokha
The only real complaint I have about The Monk of Mokha, a new book by the incomparable Dave Eggers, is this: it ended too soon. […]
A new Yemeni coffee story
THE COFFEE From our Vice President of Coffee and Green Coffee Buyer for Yemen, Geoff Watts: Yemen’s coffee culture is the stuff of myth. It […]
Fazenda Progresso, Sim!
From James McLaughlin, Intelligentsia President and Green Coffee Buyer for Brazil: Meaningful collaboration between a coffee farmer and a coffee roaster is still a relatively […]
Closing the Books on 2017
We have closed the books on 2017. It was, in our estimation, a very good year for our sourcing program. This issue of Axioma, the curated […]
Abagore
From our Green Coffee Buyer for Burundi J Mlodzinski: Kirundi is the official language of Burundi, and Abagore is Kirundi for women. Why Abagore? Because […]
Show your commitment
SHOW YOUR COMMITMENT Zirikana is Kinyarwanda for “show your commitment.” We can’t think of a better name for our annual single-origin offering from Rwanda. After […]
Gaspard!
It hardly seems possible that we first tasted coffee from Nshimiyimana Gaspard just three seasons ago. He has become such an integral part of our […]
Rwanda’s coffee heroes
From our Green Coffee Buyer for Rwanda J Mlodzinski: Kinyarwanda is the official language of Rwanda, and Imena is Kinyarwanda for hero. Our Zirikana Imena […]
Enter Buziraguhindwa
From our Green Coffee Buyer for Burundi J Mlodzinski: Ramadhan Salum has been an Intelligentsia Direct Trade partner for the past three years. He owns […]