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Last week Olympia Coffee had the opportunity to once again compete in the qualifying competitions for the United States Coffee Championships in Denver. Since the competitions have been such an important part of the history of Olympia Coffee I wanted to take a moment to update you on our current involvement and how the weekend went. First, a little history. Since 2011 Olympia Coffee has won numerous awards and top 6 spots in regional and national competitions - I think 15 total awards from memory? One time we won 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th all at the same brewers cup...

Since we've made a lot of changes over the last year we wanted to start sharing monthly insights into Olympia Coffee's company goals and vision. We thought a great first topic would be "Why We Choose to Grow as a Company". As Director of Sales I wanted to share the reasons I'm always excited to see growth here, from my perspective. The first thing to know is that we are, above all else, a Quality of Life company. You'll see this in some of our marketing, but that is the lens through which decisions are made - high quality coffee...

  Los Alpes In September, Oliver, Becky and Patrick traveled to Colombia to visit a number of our producers and spend time with our green coffee importers/exporters at Caravela. It’s important for us to visit our producers throughout the year to maintain and grow our relationships as well as cup coffees with the Caravela team. This builds trust with our coffee farmers and gives us the necessary opportunity to stay in calibration with our importing partners. We need to be sure that when Caravela cups and scores a coffee an 88, Olympia Coffee scores that same coffee an 88 at...

As you may have heard, the C-Market price for coffee has fallen to a fifteen year low in the last month. As of writing this post, the C-Market price for a pound of coffee is $.98 USD. This is below the cost of production for many of the types of producers that we work with. The C-Market is a complex system of seemingly arbitrary inputs of supply, demand, and speculation that drives the price that the majority of coffee growers receive for their coffee. I think it is important to remember that this has not always been the case. While...

This month we'd like to give a little bit of information about some great varietals and cultivars you may see on our tags this month. What is the difference between a varietal and a cultivar you ask? Simply put, a variety is a naturally occurring genetic variation within a species while a cultivar is developed by a human to express desirable traits.   Pacas: According to worldcoffeeresearch.org, pacas was discovered in 1949 by the Pacas family in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador. It is a genetic mutation of another popular varietal, Bourbon. One of the most appealing aspects of this...