Essential knowledge of coffee: seasonality-when is the specific coffee season?

Coffee is complex, but one of our favorite facts to share is simple and basic: coffee is the seed of fruit. Like fruits, vegetables and any other agricultural product you can think of, coffee produced around the world has the best harvest and consumption time of the year. Strawberry lovers are well aware of the difference between a pint of tasteless strawberries bought in autumn or winter and the sweetness of fresh strawberries in spring or summer.

Coffee is a kind of food, and all food will go bad at some point. Depending on how unbaked coffee is processed (mainly dry) and stored, it can begin to taste old or known as "past crops" or "faded" flavors one month or 14 months after harvest. The simple and short answer is that coffee from the northern hemisphere is at its best from early summer to autumn. Coffee grown in the southern hemisphere usually tastes best from early winter to spring.

When the quality of coffee exceeds the highest quality, can you taste it?

Unroasted or "green" coffee has begun to taste stale or show the taste of "past crops", roasted with woody and / or plant flavors. Sweetness and acidity will also gradually decrease. No matter how the coffee is baked or when it is baked, these flavors will eventually appear.

Is there any coffee that is longer than other coffees in season?

In general, Ethiopian coffee has an extraordinary ability to last longer than coffee from many other producing areas.

If my favorite coffee is out of season, what should I do?

For those who like coffee that is not available all year round, we encourage you to take the time to really taste it and pay attention to the flavors that stand out in these coffees. If you need to help you choose the words that describe your favorite coffee, please use our flavor wheel! This helps to narrow down what kind of coffee to drink next time.

Our seasonal map is also a good starting point. You can see when different coffee producing areas begin to harvest, process and export coffee. We also encourage customers to read about the origin of their favorite coffee and coffee on the product page to see when coffee sales are at their peak in which part of the world. Similarly, coffee from the northern hemisphere is at its best from early summer to autumn. Coffee grown in the southern hemisphere usually tastes best from early winter to spring.

The good news is that coffee is harvested somewhere in the world at any time. This is great for coffee lovers because it means that we should be able to enjoy freshly harvested coffee at any time. Who knows, maybe your favorite coffee is being produced?