2023.09.12
Join us on a sourcing trip to Acacia Hills in Tanzania
Dear Coffee Roasters, We’re thrilled to offer you an exciting opportunity! Here at TYPICA, we believe in forming deep connections with our coffee partners, and today, we invite you to join us on a special journey to the heart of Tanzanian coffee excellence – Acacia Hills. Acacia Hills Coffee Estate: Where Coffee Meets Dedication Let’s talk about Acacia Hills, a place in Tanzania that’s more than just a coffee farm – Leon and Aideen, the dynamic duo who own Acacia Hills, have been our partners for years. Their passion for crafting outstanding coffee is nothing short of inspiring. We can’t wait to share their story with you! Why Acacia Hills?…
2023.07.01
Launching Product Team
We are thrilled to announce that TYPICA will launch the Product Team in August 2023. The team will be responsible for developing our online platform, one of the key elements of TYPICA alongside high-quality coffee and the roaster-producer community. We will aim to create a marketplace that truly brings roasters and producers together and helps them more proactively and seamlessly explore their full potential. It goes without saying that the coffee industry is grappling with substantial challenges. Coffee prices can fluctuate wildly due to the whims of supply and demand as well as influxes of speculative capital. Because of that, it can be challenging to earn a steady stream of…
2023.06.01
Opening Event at Seoul Home
Over the course of four days, from April 27th to 30th, we hosted our inaugural invitation-only opening event at Seoul Home, our South Korean base, with the enthusiastic participation of 82 roasters. Attendees immersed themselves in the TYPICA experience as a global community. They engaged in cupping sessions of direct-trade new crops and enlightening talk sessions led by roasters, some of whom had traveled to coffee origins through TYPICA Lab. TYPICA launched its service in South Korea in 2021. Ever since, we have introduced the narratives of coffee producers and their uniquely crafted coffees through cupping events across the country and participation in the Cafe Show Seoul, one of the…
2023.05.19
【Rebirth】Daniele Levorato: Cuatro Caminos Coffee Estates
Hi everyone. First of all, thanks for a wonderful welcome to your country. We are Cuatro Caminos Coffee Estates, established in Panama in 2014. We are part of the AgroNosotros group which, through private equities, invests in specialty agriculture. At the moment, we own and operate 12 specialty coffee farms for a total of 177ha in Boquete, Panama, one cacao farm in the Bocas del Toro region 135ha, and four different cacao farms in Belize, 60ha in total. In addition to farming, we operate one coffee shop, soon to be two, in Panama City, and two chocolate bean-to-bar facilities in Boquete, Panama, and Punta Gorda, Belize. Our mission is to own and operate specialty…
2023.05.11
【Rising Star】Danish Ali: Caffeine Nirvana
Hello, everyone, my name is Danish. I’m from Caffeine Nirvana, India. I’m from a town called Chikmagalur. This is our estate. We grow all coffee and a lot of shade trees. This is Chikmagalur. I’ll just give you a context. Is is here that Baba Budan, when green bean, it was banned to take it anywhere and he smuggled seven beans inside a stick and brought it to Chikmagalur. And form those seven beans in the 16th century is where the coffee started. My family has been in it for a very long time. We are continuing it by employig the latest advancements, what’s available to us and combining it…
2023.05.08
【Community】Hidardo / Sebastian: CAFESMO
Hello, everyone. So we will indeed be doing a dual presentation because we think that will better reflect what CAFESMO represents as an organization. Hidardo, although he is 20 years younger than I, is the founder of CAFESMO. My name is Sebastian and I am responsible for international relations. As I just told on the stage, I am originally from the Netherlands. But I moved to Honduras 20 years ago to work with abandoned children and battered women. Four years ago, actually almost incidentally, I became aware that many coffee farmers in Honduras were leaving their livelihood and leaving their families behind to migrate illegally to the United States. We faced that problem…