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#OrigenCA2015, Part 4 - Malacara B and El Borbollon
This is Part 4 of our Coffee Origin Trip to Central America, follow along on Instagram with #OrigenCA2015. For Parts 1, 2 or 3.
A worker picks out defects from African-style drying beds at Beneficio El Borbollon.
After a night of grilled meats, beverages, cigars and bonfires, the thought for Valentine’s morning was a leisurely cupping followed by breakfast and then a trip to visit Finca Malacara B - that is, until Roberto “Chele” Dumont showed up at our door at 7:30am.
Rodrigo Dumont details an example of the Agobio Parra style of...
Developing Fratello
The selection of single origin coffees and Fratello cigars.
I've enjoyed cigars long before I was "into" coffee. Starting around 1993, I thought cigars would be a good way for me to meet interesting and successful people and a long-standing brotherhood, united by the tobacco leaf, been a part of my world ever since. The cigar introduced me to friends who have become lifelong friends and solidified friendships I've had since my youth.
Coffee became a part of my cigar world when I moved back to Baltimore at the end of 1995. The old Rolling Road...