• Pinlaung, Part 1

    Pinlaung, Part 1

    It's our second night in Myanmar and we've just arrived at Hotel Pinlaung Resort (the lack of warm water, the false advertising on free wifi and the astroturf carpet has us hesitant on the resort portion) for our accommodations for...

  • São Lourenço

    São Lourenço

    On Friday, we left Poços de Caldas to go to an even smaller town called, São Lourenço, because the Brazilian National Barista Competition was happening over the weekend. Lucky for us, we had the opportunity to meet some of the...

  • Poços de Caldas

    Poços de Caldas

    On Sunday, August 20th we land in Brazil for the first time in our coffee careers. For those that don't know, Brazil is the largest exporter of coffee in the world, shipping nearly 6 billion pounds in 2016. Nearly doubling...

  • Milk Temperature

    Milk Temperature

    Milk temperature has been an age old debate amongst baristas and coffee drinkers. We've decided, we're going to standardize all our milk temperatures and attempt to put this debate to rest. This is the language we've come up with for...

  • Sorwathe Tea + Bumbogo Station

    Sorwathe Tea + Bumbogo Station

    Today we took a bit of a different road and rather than touring a coffee station, we visited Sorwathe Tea Factory. At least for the morning. We took the same road north, toward Ruhengeri, that we did on Monday when...

  • Kilimbi

    Kilimbi

    What a beautiful coffee station. This was the first station that MTCo built here in Rwanda.As I write this, we're been an hour or so on the road after leaving Kilimbi. I'm the only one in the car who's awake, other...