República Blog — fairtrade

The manifesto claimed the ‘Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called COFFEE’ caused the ‘Decay of that true Old English Vigor’. 

Let’s have a chat about the difference between coffee and espresso. Recently, pour-over coffee has become cool (we blame the hipsters) which, by proxy has placed some types of filter coffee in the same league as the coveted espresso. For decades espresso was viewed as a superior way to drink coffee. Just ask any Australian who has traveled to the United States and it’s pretty much all they’ll talk about. 

You’ve probably heard the words ‘Fairtrade products’ bandied around quite a bit in the past few decades but you may not know exactly what it means. It sounds like it refers to products that are produced and traded fairly and while that’s certainly true, there’s a lot more to it than that.  

Have you ever been sipping away at your latte and thought ‘Where does coffee come from?’ Here are a few things you might not know about the humble coffee bean.