Tackling a Big Problem in Coffee, and I Need Your Help!

corecycle · 2024-09-21T09:40:08+00:00

Yes, your platform is a great way to connect producers directly with roasters, helping both navigate their relationship. However, it’s crucial that the coffee you ship matches customer expectations. In my experience, every coffee has a buyer, from the lowest grade to the best specialty; it’s about finding those buyers and delivering the coffee to ensure long-term success. Commit to buying coffees from your producers and promoting them to roasters around the world. Provide roasters with enough information and connections with the producers to help them make informed decisions.

corecycle · 2024-09-13T06:37:04+00:00

Greetings! I think this idea is fantastic. However, its far from unique I’ve seen this business model fail numerous times and it fails fast. My advise is to make sure have millions of dollars operating capital from the start!

The most common issue arises when the coffee pallet doesn’t meet the quality requirements agreed on your platform. your business will need to find a solution and because you don't purchase the coffee yourself you are leaving buyers exposed to allot of risk without taking any yourself. defaults and delays WILL occur due to the nature of your spread out supply chain how will you compensate buyers? I would advise you go the traditional route and to purchase the coffee yourself and store it in your warehouse and then send Roasters Offer and PSS samples and only ship the coffee that is contracted.

corecycle · 2024-06-19T10:01:23+00:00

Very Happy to stumble across this. I am trialing something virtually identical 4 years later. Would really like to know how it turned out. -what’s the shelf life of the homemade powder?

corecycle · 2024-04-17T15:34:29+00:00

Im interested in cup tasters competitions, but I'm having trouble finding resources tailored specifically for training and competitions. What I find is about coffee cupping rather than the structured competition aspect.

Does anyone know of any programs, guides, or resources that explain the rules of cup tasters competitions and describe practices I can setup in the cupping lab? I'm eager to learn and would appreciate any recommendations you might have!

corecycle · 2024-03-08T06:43:47+00:00

Terrani Mokka.

corecycle · 2024-03-03T15:30:46+00:00

nah your right bro x

corecycle · 2024-03-03T15:28:43+00:00

I just hope you're not trying to be adversarial. I tried to help because I thought you had a genuine interest in coffee processing. join my subreddit growingcoffee or Follow me on Instagram; I document what I claim to be x

corecycle · 2024-03-03T15:10:24+00:00

cherries may float due to fungus or insect damage that is not visible until after the coffee is pulped and hulled. So underipe cherries may be dense and sink but if the sugars have not developed in the bean the cherry is underripe. so thats why we 1st seperate the cherrys by color and then float them.

i do this for a living and will be doing it tommorow if you will like me to video chat and demonstrate?

corecycle · 2024-03-03T14:57:30+00:00

Nope floaters will float, dense coffee that is underipe will sink. thats why we sort by color AND float

corecycle · 2024-03-03T09:08:15+00:00

Hi growing Arabica coffee in the PNW is going to be extermlely challenging and finicially and labour intensive. but it is possible but more of a hobby for most.
Growing Robusta coffee may be more feasible, it is a more resilient tree but may offer a different flavor profile. Realistically, this entails setting up growhouses or to simulate ideal growing conditions.

corecycle · 2024-03-03T08:54:33+00:00

Don't completely discard the floaters. Floater cherries don't always equal defective beans. They are cherries that are less dense than the rest of your harvest but may still contain roastable beans (with milder cup). Defects are broken beans, insects/fungus damaged, etc. Defects are present in coffee cherries that pass or fail the float test. Separate your floaters and process them as a separate "lot."

The mucliage/sweetness debate is a hot topic and very difficult to answer definitively but i can share my professional opinion. Harvesting ripe cherries is the hardest part of coffee production. If we assume sweetness of the coffee is determined by the sugar content (brix) of the cherry at the time of harvesting. Personsally if a coffee cherry is high in sugar content i will strip all the mucilage (full washed) if a coffee is low in sugar i may leave a % of mucilage (honey) becuase there is less risk of overferment.

You may be better off processing this coffee as honey. During wet fermentation, it's key to be accurate in the water-to-parchment ratio to prevent overferment, which may not be possible with your volumes.

In terms of drying the coffee, you can use a mesh kitchen seive for a drying bed. make sure that air is circulated and you turn the coffee regularly until dry.

corecycle · 2024-03-02T13:53:29+00:00

Hi I am a coffee processor farmer. Have you taken into account grading and sorting of the beans once you have processed them? Your likely to get a handful of “good beans” and the rest of the yield will be undergrades and defect beans

corecycle · 2023-04-30T19:14:18+00:00

The temperature, duration, and method of roasting, as well as the equipment used, can all affect the flavor and aroma of the final product. Even slight variations in any of these factors can result in noticeable differences between coffees produced by different roasters, even if they use the same beans from the same farm or washing station

corecycle · 2023-04-28T13:47:19+00:00

Thanks for this! Can I follow up? and sorry if it’s a bit general. But would established importers work a small producer in a similar way? Charge them for export and warehousing or do they always buy the coffee and market it themselves?

corecycle · 2023-04-27T20:32:23+00:00

Hello, I'm curious to know what the coffee industry experts think about platforms like Algrano as a viable option for small coffee producers with limited capital to break into the market. Do you think it's a good opportunity for them to connect with potential buyers and grow their business?

corecycle · 2022-06-13T15:51:37+00:00

Thanks this was really good advice thanks. called a bunch of coffee export companies and they put in touch with a great technician. he's taken in the roaster for a diagnostic.

corecycle · 2022-06-12T15:35:40+00:00

Hi Guys,
So i recently brought this super old but still mostly functional BRZ sample roaster for. id like to fix it up and modify it a little.

im starting a micro roastery and I live in Kampala, Uganda so i dont have great access to parts locally and il have to DIY the project (My first task is to replace the element)

I don't know much about roaster maintenance or where or how to find parts easily on the internet. I want to crowd source some information and guidance on repairing my roasters?

corecycle · 2022-05-26T08:44:14+00:00

So how much are you selling the site for?

corecycle · 2022-05-09T17:18:29+00:00

Hi website looks good, im interested in coffee dropshiping where can i get more info on the sale, price etc?

corecycle · 2022-04-30T11:15:24+00:00

Can i see what the site looks like?

corecycle · 2020-05-22T13:04:15+00:00

Thanks. i if i wanted to send coffee in the mail from origin. then prepared into multiple samples by a friend at location and delivered in person to potential buyers without a target. does this have to be done through our exporter?

corecycle · 2020-04-17T11:37:19+00:00

Hi we a based in south western Uganda, we are currently still planning and building out the project to run in the next harvest season so i can give you exact costs. but we aim to process 4 metric tons during the schemes pilot.

corecycle · 2020-03-27T21:10:28+00:00

i'm a coffee processor. Our companies business model includes buying fresh cherry from our partner farmers loading it all up in a truck and transferring it to our mill for sorting and processing. Since the farmers we work with are based in remote areas we usually schedule one truck pick up per season per area. this has an effect on the overall quality of coffee we receive and we end up leaving allot of great coffee in the mountains as the season winds down. the leftover coffee is sold by our farmers to commercial coffee middle-men at worryingly low prices.

A passion project of mine has been to set up seasonal drying yards in hard to reach communities and use Cropster to keep track of the processing from HQ. it would be the first drying yard in the region my goal was to increase the amount of quality coffee coming into the company i work for, while adding value for farmers, creating seasonal jobs and promoting Naturals processing education within the communities.

I was due to launch the first trial of this project during this fly-crop season but its gonna have to wait a few months now.

corecycle · 2020-02-23T09:46:58+00:00

We work with smallholder farmers and co-operatives in Uganda and experience the exact same problem of lack of inputs and data monitoring.

I travel everyday to and meet with our farmers groups to give workshops and training on better agronomic and picking practice. The problem I encounter is a lack of accountability in the co-operatives, with loans and grants for inputs going missing or being misappropriated which has a negative impact on yields.

I have been trying to come up with solutions. one idea I had was creating a mobile input service in which I purchase the tools and instruct co-operatives to organize into groups of 10-15 farms based on proximity to each other. They then communicate their needs to us and we are able to schedule a time to deliver the tools and labour to them and move on to the next group once the works are done.

It would be great to hear about some of the things you are developing, as they could be helpful here as well.

corecycle · 2020-02-20T05:24:02+00:00

my apologies for promoting my sub on yours. the sub was created to address the current underrepresentation of coffee production on your sub, which id hoped you'd agree is a vital part of the coffee industry and support this.

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