CULTURE Archives - Black Market Coffee

The Sri Lankan Phoenix: Coffee’s Rise From The Ashes

We’ve come to the second instalment of the Sri Lankan coffee saga, and if this isn’t a story fit for the big screen, it’ll at least make an interesting National […]

SRI LANKAN COFFEE: THE GLORY YEARS

I don’t think of coffee straight away, or at all when I think of Sri Lanka. I think of tea, of rolling green plantations, of elephants and peacocks, tuk tuks, […]

GIVE THIS A CRACK WITH YOUR NEXT LONG BLACK

It felt controversial at the time, actually it feels controversial now, but a little whiles ago I wrote an article busting the myth that crema is the sign of a […]

HUILA OR WON’T YA?

Of course you huil. Huila is delicious. It’s very likely you’ll have sipped many a cup from this luscious region before, delighting in its rich, brown sugary sweetness and stone […]

A GAME OF CURDL

Another spectacular day behind the bar. All the coffee is tasting spectacular. The blend is tasting like someone’s melted a caramello koala in every cup. The bright roast is like […]

When a description of the widely produced coffee varietal Bourbon begins with “It’s a tall variety characterized by relatively low production, susceptibility to the major diseases (of leaf rust, berry […]

COFFEE IN TIMOR LESTE

Timor Leste has a turbulent history, and one I know very little about. This should be surprising considering how close a neighbour Timor Leste is to Australia, but also considering […]

THE ROBUSTA PARADOX

We humans are complex structures of synapses and neurons, buoyantly held together by a moist, floppy mass, draped over some sticks and wrapped up in skin. These neurons zapping around […]

WAR AND COFFEE: THE YEMENI SPECIALTY SCENE

It’s a hard reality that the specialty coffee we drink, we work with, love, is largely produced in countries and communities perpetually in the midst of turmoil. It could be […]