Comments on: Azahar Coffee: Farm Fresh from Colombia

By: joshua strassner

joshua strassner — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:15:00 +0000

I thought I was the only guy doing this in Colombia… good to see other folks thinking this way!

By: Greg1972

Greg1972 — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:32:00 +0000

A bit self serving…no? I know cafe Trieste well and I can tell you that Azahar is NOT trying to emulate their processes.

By: Greg1972

Greg1972 — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:26:00 +0000

These guys are doing something interesting! I had the chance to speak with Keith on the phone and he sees the coffee world in a unique way. I bet Azahar is going places.

By: swagv

swagv — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:30:00 +0000

Your “Third Wave” definition is a marketing term. Trish Skeie coined it to describe appreciating coffee, not making coffee. Unfortunately, you’re propagating the myth where shameless coffee purveyors co-opted the term for marketing purposes.

By: drew

drew — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:10:00 +0000

beautiful! thank you for this

By: Fabio Giotta

Fabio Giotta — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Congratulations on a wonderful, if not entirely accurate article about a coffee industry start-up with a novel approach. Its interesting to note that many of their practices and procedures emulate ours, and we wish Azahar Coffee continued success. However, I believe some of your “waves” of coffee history are crossed (pun intended). Our company, Caffe Trieste, introduced Espresso coffee to the West Coast in 1956 at our flagship North Beach location. We, along with a few other companies that date back to the 1950′s and 60′s, such as Graffeo Coffee Roasting, Capricorn Coffees (under its original management-Jim Hardcastle) and Peet’s Coffee in its original 2 store incarnation (owned and operated by Alfred Peet-not related to its current incarnation) collectively generated the original gourmet coffee and Espresso wave in the SF Bay Area and beyond. Coffee history in the SF Bay Area is a long and complicated story. For more information about us, please visit our website (another interesting tidbit: our company became one of the first coffee dot com’s back in 1996). Again, thanks for your article.

By: Juanchitocoll

Juanchitocoll — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Excelente artículo. Es muy importante resaltar la importancia de la labor de los pequeños productores, que son aquellas personas que con gran esfuerzo, dedicación y aprecio por su labor producen los mejores cafés de alta calidad para los amantes del Buen Café de Origen.