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At Orang Utan Coffee (OUC), our commitment to sustainability goes beyond just producing premium coffee. It’s about empowering the communities that make it all possible. In line with this mission, we recently organized our annual training sessions aimed at enhancing…

Zurheide’s coffee manufactory: bean rarities from our own roastery We use a Probat 25 kg roasting machine in our store on Nürnberger Straße.Together with four colleagues, we roast around 50 tons per year, which equates to around 900 kg per…

9NEWS covers the importance of drinking ethical coffee…Watch the full video by Australian news program 9NEWS here. © Channel 9 and Zoos Victoria

Huge excitement in our office in Berg am Irchel and in the program office on Sumatra: After 10 years of work, the time has finally come: The first orangutans are moving from the sanctuary’s enclosure to the green islands in…

An aromatic scent wafts through the corridors of our municipal comprehensive school in Uellendahl-Katernberg. If you get closer to the source of this scent, it thickens, becomes visible and ends in a plume of smoke curling out of a small…

Motivation and preparation For about 3 years now, I have been the owner of a portafilter machine with an accompanying grinder. As it is my first portafilter, I first had to familiarise myself with the art of coffee preparation. At…

Women’s empowerment is a key objective of development policy (Alkire et al. 2012). Women’s full participation in public, economic and political life is recognized as necessary condition for gender equity and justice, as well as a driver of broad-based development…

Evaluation of green coffee grade 1 Arabica With a sample of 350g a physical analysis starts as follows: First the humidity and density of the coffee is measured, the humidity of imported green coffee is meant to be between 10-12%.…