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Nieuw, prachtig!, filmpje van Sweet Maria´s:

Walking Through an Ethiopian Native Coffee Forest: Tom's walkabout through a natural coffee forest.

Tom Owen schreef: The origin of arabica coffee is in the Bonga Forest of the Kaffa region in western Ethiopia and Mankira area is in the heart of it. It took many trips for me to finally see real forest coffee like this in such a pristine area. This is a casual self shot video, but I hope the beauty of his place overcomes the quality of my camerawork.

Heel leuk om te zien hoe de koffie oorspronkelijk groeit, en hoe liefdevol hij erover spreekt.

WIE DURFT????

Ook van hetzelfde foodblog komen deze exotische koffieinstructie video´s:

#killthekcup



HOLY K......rap

De makers houden niet echt van koffie uit niet-recyclebare cupjes....

Begeleidend schrijven is dan ook:
In 2014 the use of the K-Cup reached unparalleled levels. Output became so high that there was enough discarded K-Cups to circle the earth 10.5 times. The numbers continued to grow until the day of the invasion ...

Know your facts:

1. In 2013, Green Mountain Coffee produced enough coffee pods to wrap around the equator 10.5 times.
2. The new Keurig 2.0 does not offer reusable filters and the existing “my K-cup” filter does not fit on the machine.
3. Green Mountain only makes 5% of its current cups out of recyclable plastic.
4. Keurig Green Mountain’s mission is to have a Keurig System on every counter and a beverage for every occasion - hot, cold, maybe even soup.
5. The pods are made of No. 7 plastic, which can’t be recycled in most places. They have an aluminum lid, which is hard to separate from the cup. Even if the plastic, aluminum and coffee could be separated, the pod is too small to be handled by most recycling systems.
6. TerraCycle, a company that provides recycling solutions for spent coffee pods, has teamed up with Tassimo, Mars Drinks, Nespresso and Illy, but despite reaching out to the company multiples times, has not be able to develop a relationship with Green Mountain (Keurig).


Knap gemaakt filmpje haha.

Best aardig, maar die Americanos [sic!] blijven een apart volkje...

Waar ik me het meest om verbaas is dat ik in het begin wéér een mokapot zie die ontzaggelijk ranzig is
Kwam ik laatst ook al tegen, op een foto van een journalist van NY Times ofzo, die het als verering aan z´n muur had hangen.
Helemaal ranzig van binnen en buiten, bijkans licht verroest. En daar dan consequent koffie mee blijven zetten...

"Grose"

Erg sfeervol en wat meer een INkijkje in een koffieproducerend land!!


Burundi is one of the poorest coffee-producing countries in the world, and this is by no means coincidental to a lack of development in the coffee sector.

UN experts in food security in 2013 estimated that coffee accounts for 80 percent of the country’s export earnings, and represents the primary financial means for more than half the population, or approximately 750,000 families, many of whom are smallholder farmers.

Coffee, as it is in Burundi, is not enough. “Around two thirds of Burundians live below the poverty line and up to 60% are chronically malnourished,” the UN said.

American expatriate Ben Carlson, who lives with his wife and sons in the landlocked East African country, sees Burundi’s underdevelopment as opportunity. His family is behind the Long Miles Coffee Project, which has been working over the past several years to help organize farmers and improve farming practices among individual smallholders, build washing stations and establish access to premium markets.

One of Long Miles’ partners stateside is Olympia, Wash.-based Olympia Coffee Roasting, which recently put together this fantastic video (below) about Long Miles and some of the issues facing Burundi smallholders. Unlike other promotional pieces of its kind, this video doesn’t sugarcoat the problems, including but not limited to historically poor land management and potato taste defect.

The video, like Long Miles itself, is very much focused on the correlation between problem and solution. In it, Long Miles founder Ben Carlson says:

What we’re seeing is, the problem is poor maintenance. That also means potential. The potential is, if these poorly maintained trees are producing beautiful coffee, what if we help these friends and neighbors of ours take care of their trees, get new trees, have better management. Take their environment around them and really make a sustainable and organic way to produce more and better coffee. So our challenge is really our opportunity.

Watch the full video:

Die Burundi is een echte aanrader, zaterdag heb ik een proefje gedraaid, bijzonder mooie branding eventjes geproefd, donderdag ga ik er 6 kilo van branden, mooie gelijkmatige gewassen boontjes, ben erg benieuwd heb ze nog nooit gehad.
Ik denk dat ze me wel kunnen bekoren als ik de verhalen etc. moet geloven en wat die veel te vroege proeverij me reeds bracht.

Ethiopian Coffee Processing

I wanted to show basic differences in the methods and to underscore the point that coffee is very labor-intensive, especially dry processed (natural) coffee. It's the reason we pay higher prices for Ethiopian coffee than others, far above the market and far above the fair trade levels.

Een nieuw filmpje van Sweet Maria´s. Wederom erg INzichtelijk, prettig en rustig van commentaar voorzien.

En dit... dit is ook prachtig...
Ook al versta ik maar één woord (kahwa), je wordt er vanzelf ingezogen.
Heel stemmig gemaakt. Als ik het een beetje begrijp gaat het over Eritreërs die overal en nergens op de wereld verblijven.
Met de herinnering aan de koffie van ´thuis´ als bindende factor.
Nogmaals: prachtig!
Geluid ietsje harder zetten, beeld op full screen en even rustig naar achteren leunen.....