On Friday, April 12, as thousands of coffee professionals were gathered in Chicago for the Specialty Coffee Expo, Saint Louis University junior Firaol Ahmed was lacing up his track shoes in Southern California. Ahmed has even launched a local roasted coffee service he playfully calls “Moii Prime,” in which he can deliver coffees within an hour. The second is the amount of young people who are entering specialty coffee. Coming from a family of coffee farmers what troubles me is the gap between commodity coffee and specialty coffee is growing so much. Not every farmer has the means, especially within African countries, to produce a specialty coffee, so that means that they’re being left behind.

Source: Ethiopian News May 08, 2024 15:02 UTC