Mercanta The Coffee Hunters

Stephen Cornford took his first steps into the world of speciality coffee with Mercanta back in August, when he approached us for work experience. He has since been taken on as a permanent member of the Mercanta team and now works alongside Oli in our lab, where he assists with roasting, sample dispatch, cupping and many other lab-related activ...

We have just been sent some photos of the damage caused in Guatemala by weeks of heavy rain, as a series of tropical storms batter Central America. Meanwhile El Salvador is forecasting losses of between 7 and 20% of its national coffee production in 2011/12.