#coffee-sourcing

#coffee-sourcing

In a room full of coffee roasters last week, longtime green coffee trader Mark Inman asked for a show of hands. How many people started buying green coffee professionally within the past few years? Approximately half the room raised a hand, to which Inman replied, "I'm sorry. I apologize. It does get better, trust me, but you're going to come out of the other end of this time with more knowledge than people who have been buying green coffee for 15, 20 years."

Athens Coffee Holding & Roasting Company opened its first cafe alongside its roastery last month, courtesy of the team behind popular local shop Sips Espresso Café. The cozy new cafe occupies a fully remodeled 1,000-square-foot 1930s house that was part of a residential area for workers at a nearby denim factory. Guests can now sit in jute coffee-sack-upholstered chairs inside the historic home or on the front porch, while the commercial roastery and baking kitchen operate in adjoining rooms.