The festive season is a time to connect with the people who matter to us. But sometimes, the people we want to gift are far away. That's why we've made it easier to send IncaFé coffee along with a personal message.
Choosing the right home coffee machine can feel overwhelming, with so many options available. Your ideal choice depends on your personal preferences, budget, and how involved you want to be in your daily brewing ritual. To help you make an informed decision, we'll break down the two primary considerations when buying an espresso machine:
The main reason for the tight balance between supply and demand is climate change. It was predicted 10 years ago that coffee would be one of the worst affected crops and it is happening. Coffee plants are resilient, but heat makes the coffee cherry ripen quicker resulting in smaller beans ie lower yield. Moreover, too much heat damages plants and that has been happening in the main coffee producing countries of Brazil and Vietnam. With global warming predicted to make coffee growing much harder there are limited means of expanding coffee production so we are getting to a tightly balanced supply and demand curve where especially organic and shade-grown coffee can benefit due to the higher farm incomes.
Most of the flavour in coffee is determined by the environmental circumstances, coffee variety, altitude and for a very big part the processing on the farm and in the final processing plant.
Coffee is the pit of a cherry. It consists of 2 halves that look a bit like a peanut: the seeds. The seeds have a thin skin around them. The pit has a harder shell around them, the hull. Around the hull you find sweet fruit flesh or mucilage, also called "honey" because it is so sweet. Coffee processes differ in the number of layers that are removed before drying and the degree of fermentation of the mucilage. Different countries and sometimes different growers have different definitions of the processing methods.
Selecting the right packaging is very complex. We thought we had it right with our compostable packaging but we had some blind spots when we pursued that. We think recyclable packaging is the future and for good reasons. There is a lot more push and pull behind and a lot more development than ever before. There is a clear consensus that we need to improve recycling and recyclability.
