As our journey comes to a close, here are some photos of the best moments of the Café Imports Barista Champs Trip to Colombia An intrepid group of coffee travelers gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, early […]
The Café Imports Barista Origin Trip continues through Ecuador After visiting coffee farms and mills in the north of Ecuador, yesterday the Café Imports Barista Origin Trip crew departed the lovely Finca Primavera in the […]
The Adventure in Ecuador Begins for Barista Champs and Café Imports Hosts Editor’s note: Barista Magazine publisher Kenneth Olson is in Ecuador with the lucky seven baristas who were awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to Ecuador […]
For the fourth year, Café Imports Treats Barista Champions to Education and Excitement in An Origin Country Barista Magazine publisher Kenneth Olson left yesterday for Ecuador (Portland-Chicago-Miami-Quito, phew!) to join Café Imports on their annual […]
Recently one of our readers, tweeted a quote from my Field Report in the February + March 2014 issue on the Café Imports Origin Trip to Kenya. She tweeted, “Drink our good coffee,’ Mr Obobo […]
The barista champs have continued to enjoy a fascinating week in Kenya as the guests of Café Imports, the Minneapolis-based green coffee importer that gives the most generous barista competition around: a trip to a […]
The third day of the Cafe Imports Barista Origin Trip kicked off this morning from the Outspan Hotel in Nyeri, Kenya as we all clambered aboard our souped-up LandCruisers and headed out for another day […]
The group of barista champions, international coffee folks and locals loaded into our beefed up Toyota Landcruisers and headed north out of Nairobi. After sitting for hours the day before in the capital’s notorious gridlock, […]
The first day of the third installment of Café Imports Barista Origin Trip kicked off here in Nairobi with a visit to the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. The NCE is where almost all of the coffee […]
There are those who believe that coffee here began out there, far across the world, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Roasters, or the Importers, or the Baristas. Some […]
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