Behind the scenes

They say that may hands make light work, and in the case of coffee production, it couldn’t be truer.

When a café serves a customer a delicious single origin coffee from Nicaragua, the cup’s journey isn’t from the spout of a coffee machine to the cup. It starts long before that, in fact, well before the coffee is even harvested.

While most coffee professionals have this knowledge and appreciation for the many processes involved in bringing a cup of coffee to life – and are doing an incredible job in relaying this information to consumers through packaging, information cards, or a good old-fashioned chat – the journey for the importer is entirely different altogether.