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Cortez Coffee Academy team sharing 7 simple and incremental steps to instantly becoming better at brewing coffee than a café barista. 

A beginner introduction to roasting. Intuitive using the 5 senses to breakdown coffee roasting.

Easy step-by-step tutorial on cold brew making. Along with our in-house tips for a better brew than other cold brew sellers.

    With over 140 coffees and after three stages of rigorous evaluation, only 26 farm-lots were chosen as 2020 Cup of Excellence winners. Our friends at F.C.J. Volcan Azul submitted 4 coffees to this year’s Cup of Excellence competition, with all 4 placing inside the top 26 international winners. Volcan Azul won the 4th, 12th, 23rd, and 26th positions, the farm with the most international awards.   We congratulate the workers of Volcan Azul farm for their much-deserved awards. Every picker, grower, processor, transporter, and owners, including Mr. Alejo Castro have contributed to this achievement. We are very proud to represent their efforts and their name by roasting their phenomenal coffees.   View our current Volcan Azul offering About...

There are a multitude of conditions, such as high elevation, the presence of shade, and levels of soil drainage, that can slow down the growth process of coffee plants. In turn this causes various sugars in the coffee cherry to develop over time, and subsequently impacts the flavor as it sundries into the coffee beans. Additionally, slower growing processes can alter the density of the coffee beans. High bean density leads to higher heat resistance, which is an indicator for the roastermaster to consider when conducting Split Bean Analysis as part of roasting procedure. (Split Bean Analysis literally means cutting a sample of coffee beans in half, and assessing its density as compared with other beans and other roasts.) Generally, lower grown coffees  have a different solid bean structure than higher grown...