green coffee buying

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## green coffee buying
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# disclaimer: if you're looking for the marketing spiel, something that reads like an AI splurged some buzz words onto the screen, you won't find it here...the reality of green coffee buying for small time roasters like dialect is not such a beautiful story of sustainability and direct relationships with producers. you can read about the reality in this short article (8 mins read) i recently wrote: "green coffee buying for the professional hobbyist".

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# suppliers
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When the roastery is small, buying only 0-60 kg of green coffee every month, buying decisions rely on importers who have established networks in producing countries. No direct trade here.

These are the importers we have purchased green coffee from:

• Raw Material
• Cofinet
• Primavera
• Omwani
• Falcon (Micro)
• DRWakefield
• Cata Export
• INC specialty coffee

Importing coffee takes a lot of work and there's no way to feasibly to integrate a secondary business at this scale - it's a matter of time, knowledge and skill. We therefore entrust them to continue and develop their relationships with exporters and producers.

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# current practices
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For each coffee offered, we have:

• requested a sample of green (unroasted) coffee from the importers
• roasted small (50-100g) batches of the green coffee using a standard time-temperature profile using a sample roaster
• tasted each coffee and assigned levels of acidity and fruitiness, as well as a couple of flavour descriptors

Right now, we purchase small quantities of each coffee (approx. 24-35 kg, or 5-10 kg for ‘microlots’). As dialect's evolves, we can have more of an impact, but for now, we do what we can.

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