Colombia
Coffee production in Colombia has a reputation for producing mild, well-balanced coffee beans. Colombia's average annual coffee production of 11.5 million bags is the third total highest in the world, after Brazil and Vietnam, though highest in terms of the arabica bean.
In 2007, the European Union granted Colombian coffee a protected designation of origin status and a few years later in 2011, UNESCO declared the "Coffee Cultural Landscape" of Colombia, a World Heritage site.
Colombia has just about the perfect geography for growing coffee, a sensitive crop which needs exactly the right conditions to thrive. The richness of flavour for which Colombian coffee is celebrated is mainly down to an excellent climate, perfect soil and the exact right amount of rainfall.
Blog posts
Every year, millions of hectares of forest are cleared to make way for agriculture. To address this, the EU has passed new rules to ensure that several major commodities, including coffee, can only...
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Under the Canopy: Shade, Sun and Why Context Matters in Coffee
There is no single right way to grow coffee. The right approach depends on climate, variety, management and, crucially, the livelihoods of the people who run the farm. Labels like “shade-grown” can...
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10 Questions you've always wanted to ask a Coffee Roaster
We teamed up with Ante Bikic, our Head Roaster at Amokka since 2019, to ask him some of the most common questions we get about coffee. With a calm, technical focus, he draws on nearly 20 years of e...
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